The Philosophical Strangler(128)
By:Eric Flint
“So I smote Fat Hoskuld
in the eyeball
With my spear which got
stuck in the socket
So I drew my sword and
smashed Hoskuld’s
Two nephews in the head
but the sword
Bent over the head of
the second nephew
Who was called Ingemar
the Dimwitted
Before I bent my sword
over his head.
Afterwards he was called
Ingemar the
Dimmerwitted. But
because my sword bent,
Fat Hoskuld’s nephews
went at me with
Their axes and I was
forced to duck and dodge
While I took a rock