The Legend of the White 
Reindeer 
Skoal! Skoal! For Norway Skoal! 
Sing ye the song of the Vand-dam troll. 
When I am hiding 
Norway’s luck 
On a White Storbuk 
Comes riding, riding. 
THE SETTING 
LEAK, black, deep, and cold 
is Utrovand, a long pocket 
of glacial water, a crack 
in the globe, a wrinkle in 
the high Norwegian moun- 
tains, blocked with another 
mountain, and flooded with 
a frigid flood, three thousand feet above its 
Mother Sea, and yet no closer to its Father Sun. 
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