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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Einherjar

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Fallen warriors chosen by Odin and Valkyries to dwell in Valhalla until Ragnarök.

Detailed Definition
The Einherjar train daily and feast nightly, preparing to fight alongside the gods in the final battle. They embody heroic death and glory. In poetry, they symbolize the warrior ethos, divine favor, and the promise of eternal honor, often evoked in elegiac or martial verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A warrior poem might vow, “I fight not for glory, but for the Einherjar’s feast at dusk”; In solemn tone: “Each dawn, the Einherjar don helmets once more—death is but rehearsal for Ragnarök”; A lyric could mourn, “My brother walks Valhalla’s yard, an Einherjar with your face”; Contemporary verse: “The Einherjar train, unaware that some battles end not in song, but ash”.
Additional Notes
The Einherjar (“single/fighters” or “army of one”) train daily in Valhalla and feast nightly, preparing for Ragnarök. They embody the heroic ideal: death in battle as the highest honor. But they are also tragic—chosen specifically to die again. In poetry, Einherjar symbolize glory, masculine virtue, and the cyclical nature of violence. Modern poets may critique or reinterpret them (e.g., as PTSD metaphors). Their communal yet solitary existence (“single fighters”) offers nuanced ground for exploring identity, sacrifice, and the cost of eternal readiness.
Also Known As
Einherjars
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