A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Erda

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

Not a Norse figure; likely a confusion with the Germanic/Nibelungenlied earth goddess or Wagner’s Erda.

Detailed Definition
Erda is not part of authentic Norse mythology but appears in Richard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle as an earth goddess. She has no basis in the Poetic or Prose Eddas. In poetry influenced by Wagnerian romanticism, she may be referenced, but traditional Norse sources do not include her among mythic beings.
Example
Example in poetry:
Erda, though more prominent in Wagner, echoes Norse Jörð, earth goddess and mother of Thor; Poets sometimes conflate Erda with Norse earth spirits or Norns; In modern verse, she represents primal wisdom and grounding; Her name is used for deep, ancient knowledge beyond gods; She appears in eco-mythic poetry as the voice of the planet; Though not in original Eddas, she serves as a poetic bridge to Germanic roots.
Additional Notes
Erda is not attested in Old Norse sources; she originates in Germanic legend and Wagner’s Ring Cycle as an earth goddess—students should distinguish authentic Norse figures from later Romantic or operatic inventions; this confusion exemplifies the need for source criticism when studying myth in poetic adaptation.
Also Known As
Jörð
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