For years I enjoyed my duties as minstrel and that lord’s favor, but now the freehold and land titles he bestowed upon me once he has vested in Heorrenda, master of verse-craft. That passed over, this can too.
He is sad that he lost his job
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Earmonric had the mind of a wolf, by all accounts a cruel king, lord of the far flung Gothic outlands. Everywhere men sat shackled in sorrow, expecting the worst, wishing often he and his kingdom would be conquered. That passed over, this can too.
He is a cruel and tyrannical despot, ruler of barbarians, as evidenced by "Gothic." They are calling him cunning and clever with the comparison to a wolf, but also cruel.
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Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat nothing. However, if any creature tells you that it hungers, feed it.
This line promotes selflessness and generosity, whilst still giving an air of tension in the house.
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I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
This pertains to the fact that poems could be hard to digest, with the reader being the mouse, and that it could take some time to understand it.
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I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
The meaning is that by holding a poem up to a light like a color slide, you can discern many different meanings and themes.
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