{"id":37501,"date":"2018-07-25T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37501"},"modified":"2018-07-25T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:51:57","slug":"the-faroes-and-their-medieval-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-faroes-and-their-medieval-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"The faroes and their medieval customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thors harbour thats the capital<br \/>\nOf the Faroes<br \/>\nA craggy set of islands<br \/>\nWhere there be<br \/>\n50,000 people throwbacks<br \/>\nFrom the norse days<br \/>\nButchers of the beaches<br \/>\nTragically<\/p>\n<p>A medieval bloodlust<br \/>\nAn affliction<br \/>\nNo benediction hear<br \/>\nI have to say<br \/>\nThey hunt and murder<br \/>\nPilot whales<br \/>\nWhole pods of them<br \/>\nLeaving long trails<br \/>\nOf blood and sinew everywhere<br \/>\nPurgatory pales<\/p>\n<p>Into insignificance<br \/>\nFor the anguish that one feels<br \/>\nFor the grindadrap and the killings<br \/>\nAnd the blood lust it reveals<br \/>\nThe hunts described as the living death<br \/>\nAs the slaughtering takes place<br \/>\nOn the beaches and the<br \/>\nSea itself no living soul<br \/>\nOught face<\/p>\n<p>51 long  fin pilot whales<br \/>\nWere savagely butchered,bthey<br \/>\nA family tree disposed of<br \/>\nTorn to shreds today<br \/>\nWho witness such unpleasantness<br \/>\nA waking nightmare comes<br \/>\nCrashing down on everyone<br \/>\nAs we hear the dying drums<\/p>\n<p>The heart beats of the ancestors<br \/>\nThe thunder of which was THOR<br \/>\nThe blood bath that is happening<br \/>\nAs it did before<br \/>\nPeople of this century<br \/>\nBut throwbacks of before<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Grimur Kamban&#8221; evils<br \/>\nThat obliterate the law<\/p>\n<p>The natural world is reeling<br \/>\nEach grind creates a scene<br \/>\nOf what is  darkening degradation<br \/>\nDistress dolour the mean<br \/>\nSpirited survivors of evil long ago<br \/>\nThe phantoms rise and the demise<br \/>\nOf the angels still in tow<\/p>\n<p>The butchers of the faroes<br \/>\nSuch suffering we see<br \/>\nA frenzy of medieval lust<br \/>\nThe depths of misery<br \/>\nThe cries of aching parents<br \/>\nThe sighs of veteran souls<br \/>\nThe screams of little children<br \/>\nAll of them with roles<br \/>\nWithin the whale community<br \/>\nAnd are being slashed to death<br \/>\nSmothered  in each others blood<br \/>\nAnd all fighting for breath<\/p>\n<p>You cannot describe the agony<br \/>\nNot in this day and age<br \/>\nIts as if the viking  hordes were back<br \/>\nYou can sense the rage<br \/>\nIll used and maltreated<br \/>\nThe whales loyal to their pod<br \/>\nNone of them will swim away<br \/>\nThey  are closer to their god<\/p>\n<p>Than any of these so called humans<br \/>\nAn island  people who<br \/>\nHave sheep and salmon and wild birds and fish<br \/>\nBut are clueless to<br \/>\nthe suffering<br \/>\nOf these noble beasts<br \/>\nWild souls of the sea<br \/>\nHighly intelligent beings<br \/>\nAs downtrodden as they can be<\/p>\n<p>Wounded heavy laden<br \/>\nWith grief and angst and pain<br \/>\nHearing their children screaming<br \/>\nTo a terrible refrain<br \/>\nVictimized and threatened<br \/>\nKnifed and bleeding out<br \/>\nEven the pregant females<br \/>\nAre slaughtered in the rout<\/p>\n<p>They endure the wrath of  evil<br \/>\nDespondent every one<br \/>\nBroken hearted sorrowful<br \/>\nThrashing in the sun<br \/>\nAll are weeping buckets<br \/>\nOffended by the crime<br \/>\nHumiliated nauseated<br \/>\nDisgusted for the rhyme<\/p>\n<p>How can there be a reason<br \/>\nThese sheep islands realise<br \/>\nSalmon farming massive stocks<br \/>\nWhy the  the wild whales demise<br \/>\nTheir lament screams through the heavens<br \/>\nAwakens the Norse Gods<br \/>\nThe viking hordes defending<br \/>\nSlicing through the pods<br \/>\nThe harshness and the roughness<br \/>\nThe loathsomeness we see<br \/>\nThe hatefulness for nature<br \/>\nAnd how it has to be<br \/>\nA constant threat to the living<br \/>\nRetards one has to feel<br \/>\nIn what is a molestation of such<br \/>\nWhich is altogether real<\/p>\n<p>Its insufferable its intolerable<br \/>\nIts impossible to see<br \/>\nButtock clenching torment<br \/>\nA bridge too far it be<br \/>\nMartyrs 51 of them<br \/>\nFelt their gall and spite<br \/>\nTasted their base emotion<br \/>\nNothing here is right<br \/>\nIts grinding gruelling vitriolic<br \/>\nExcruciating pain<br \/>\nNipping gnawing throbbing<br \/>\nNo one here dare gain<\/p>\n<p>Any respect whatsoever<br \/>\nFrom this savagery abroad<br \/>\nIts ghastly to imagine<br \/>\nThat there could be  a reward<br \/>\nFor all this awful terror<br \/>\nCommitted as we see<br \/>\nBy red knecks clothed and wading<br \/>\nIn a sea of misery<\/p>\n<p>Blood spattered sinew spattered<br \/>\nSurgeons of the sea<br \/>\nTearing into living flesh<br \/>\nWith such severity<br \/>\nAn insanity of spirit<br \/>\nFlailing ugly stuff<br \/>\nOdious and disgusting<br \/>\nI have seen enough<\/p>\n<p>My stomach it is churning<br \/>\nThe chyme inside me dies<br \/>\nNo remorse or contrition<br \/>\nI rue the day my eyes<br \/>\nClamped upon this carnage<br \/>\nThe joyless wretched sight<br \/>\nOf innocence just cut to ribbons<br \/>\nIn its final flight<\/p>\n<p>The wailing i can hear them<br \/>\nBut the butchers are deafened and thick<br \/>\nThrowbacks from the centuries before<br \/>\nIt doesnt click<br \/>\nWith them they are insentient<br \/>\nUnlike the Pilot whales<br \/>\nDrowning inthe mercury and the PCB&#8217;s<br \/>\nNot tales<br \/>\nof fiction or of horror<br \/>\nBut truths beyond regard<br \/>\nConsuming the flesh and blubber<br \/>\nThe inner soul is scarred<br \/>\nBeyond their darkest nightmares<br \/>\nThe pollution in the brain<br \/>\nAs they march into the ocean<br \/>\nEver more insane<\/p>\n<p>Watch them like some army<br \/>\nOf vagabonds and spivvs<br \/>\nMarching into battle with their long knifes<br \/>\nNothing gives<br \/>\nThe loyalty and the courage<br \/>\nOf the vanquished trying hard<br \/>\nTo safeguard all their siblings<br \/>\nStill trying to guard<br \/>\nEach other from the machinations<br \/>\nThe hideousness around<br \/>\nThe gracelessness the squalor<br \/>\nAs one by one they are drowned<\/p>\n<p>In massive blood  loss sinew blubber<br \/>\nIntestines everywhere<br \/>\nDisfigurement, defacement deformity despair<br \/>\nMonsters really harridans<br \/>\nThats the truth I see<br \/>\nMaking out  they are starving<br \/>\nButt ugly actually<br \/>\nThey have lost the  plot completely<br \/>\nThrowbacks as I have said<br \/>\nThey cannot see the obscenity<br \/>\nThat is clearly in their head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thors harbour thats the capital Of the Faroes A craggy set of islands Where there be 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