August heats the field of honor

Jarl Drogo FitzWilliam
fallen in Fall Crown Tourney A.S. XLIII

August heats the field of honor,
Sunlight gleaming, hearts a’blazing:
Fighters stand before the monarchs.

(For Iðuna!)

Comes the Norman Jarl Sir Drogo,
Battle-hardened, loving husband:
Happy father, honored fighter.

(For Iðuna!)

Gyronny, argent and sable,
Wolf’s head gules adorns his blazon:
Drogo overcomes Lord Lorccán.

(For Iðuna!)

Laughing Viking Lord Þorfinnr,
Faces Drogo in the second:
Now the song of death comes calling.

(For Iðuna!)

Noble Halfdan, mentor, teacher,
Called to combat in the third round:
Dragon’s head to wolf’s head bowing.

(For Iðuna!)

Wynter quelled FitzWilliam’s ardor,
Norman blade to Irish yielding:
Yet one life remains for combat.

(For Iðuna!)

In the fifth comes von Goarshausen,
Well-armed, well-dressed handsome German:
No crown won for sweet Iðuna.

— Duchess Natalya de Foix

... Based on Medieval Latin lyric used in the Carmina Burana (c. 1230): three lines of eight syllables with a four-syllable “refrain.”

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