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dhampyresaI'm quite proud of this, despite the relatively short time I wrote it in. (Saved from the meme, will de-anon to main comm when Nordics series is over)
Identity
His first memory is of waking up on the beach. He doesn't remember his name or who he is, but he does remember how to walk.
And so walk he does.
He walks.
He walks through the land.
He walks through the fields and through the land.
He walks through the land. The flat, flat land.
It is familiar to him.
It is familiar to him, but he does not know why.
He reaches a village after some time. The people there are nice but they are not his people. They give him food and shelter for the night. He sleeps.
In his dreams, he can hear the song of the Earth pound into his bones.
When he wakes up this time, he cannot remember who he is or how he got here. The people pity him and take him in their midst.
He is loved and grows among the people of the village. He is a strong and healthy child, but he grows slowly.
Unavngiven barn, they say his name is. Unavngiven barn, the Child With No Name. What a strange name. He does not like it.
Hukommelsestab, they call him then. The Boy With No Memory.
It is not his name either.
And every night, the call of the Earth sings in his dreams.
One day, Dreng, as they have taken to calling him, is nearly gutted by a wild boar. He recovers where no one else would have.
Some of the people fear him after that. Some hate him. The Boy does not notice, or care, either way. These people are not his people and the land is not his land.
The dreams grow more powerful after that. Danmark, min søn, Danmark den store, Danmark... it seems the Earth whispers to him. And in his Dream, he feels more alive and more powerful than he ever did when he was awake and he remembers his Name.
But then comes the morning and the sun and the waking. He is alone and cannot remember his Name, only a feeling of being loved.
Life goes on. People forget the incident with the boar. Dreng has friends once again.
Life goes on.
As the boy grows, the Dream invades his Waking world.
When the Boy is a man the whisper in his bones is everlasting and the thìng elects a King. A King of the Danernes Mark. The Mark of the Dane.
A King of Denmark.
The Boy has found his Name, the land is his land and the people are his people.
And the Dream becomes real.
-----
At this point in time, it is painfully obvious that I do not speak a word of Dansk.
These are all Google translations:
Unavngiven barn: Unnamed child
Hukommelsestab: Amnesia because I couldn't find "amnesiac".
Dreng: Boy
Danmark, min søn, Danmark den store, Danmark: Denmark, my son, Denmark the great, Denmark
A thìng is an assembly that elected kings in Viking times and Danernes Mark is the old name of Denmark.
Apologies for the lack of references to Danish history and the Google!Dansk.
Identity
His first memory is of waking up on the beach. He doesn't remember his name or who he is, but he does remember how to walk.
And so walk he does.
He walks.
He walks through the land.
He walks through the fields and through the land.
He walks through the land. The flat, flat land.
It is familiar to him.
It is familiar to him, but he does not know why.
He reaches a village after some time. The people there are nice but they are not his people. They give him food and shelter for the night. He sleeps.
In his dreams, he can hear the song of the Earth pound into his bones.
When he wakes up this time, he cannot remember who he is or how he got here. The people pity him and take him in their midst.
He is loved and grows among the people of the village. He is a strong and healthy child, but he grows slowly.
Unavngiven barn, they say his name is. Unavngiven barn, the Child With No Name. What a strange name. He does not like it.
Hukommelsestab, they call him then. The Boy With No Memory.
It is not his name either.
And every night, the call of the Earth sings in his dreams.
One day, Dreng, as they have taken to calling him, is nearly gutted by a wild boar. He recovers where no one else would have.
Some of the people fear him after that. Some hate him. The Boy does not notice, or care, either way. These people are not his people and the land is not his land.
The dreams grow more powerful after that. Danmark, min søn, Danmark den store, Danmark... it seems the Earth whispers to him. And in his Dream, he feels more alive and more powerful than he ever did when he was awake and he remembers his Name.
But then comes the morning and the sun and the waking. He is alone and cannot remember his Name, only a feeling of being loved.
Life goes on. People forget the incident with the boar. Dreng has friends once again.
Life goes on.
As the boy grows, the Dream invades his Waking world.
When the Boy is a man the whisper in his bones is everlasting and the thìng elects a King. A King of the Danernes Mark. The Mark of the Dane.
A King of Denmark.
The Boy has found his Name, the land is his land and the people are his people.
And the Dream becomes real.
-----
At this point in time, it is painfully obvious that I do not speak a word of Dansk.
These are all Google translations:
Unavngiven barn: Unnamed child
Hukommelsestab: Amnesia because I couldn't find "amnesiac".
Dreng: Boy
Danmark, min søn, Danmark den store, Danmark: Denmark, my son, Denmark the great, Denmark
A thìng is an assembly that elected kings in Viking times and Danernes Mark is the old name of Denmark.
Apologies for the lack of references to Danish history and the Google!Dansk.