ODDKELL: With pleasure.
[clears throat]
ODDKELL: The Five Hundred Companions of Ysgramor bold,
Who turned back to Tamriel and reclaimed their home:
Yngol and Ylgar, Harbinger's sons,
First and the last of the heroes to come.
Then comes the count of their tear-wives four:
Alleir and Tusk Widow who her name foreswore;
Vramali the Quaking, and Jarli-al the Bore,
Their wine-wives, Mjarili-al, Elja Hate-Basket,
And brave Ingridal who lost her casket,
Their shield-wives bold, and never beaten,
Shanjenen the Echo-Eaten
And She-Whose-Name-Stays-in-its-Cradle.
Next of the Mighty, strong and able,
Are Ysgramor's twenty-two oracle aunts:
Unalt and Hrim of the Seven Chants,
Fjoril and Kjhelt of the Cult of Orkey,
Ingridal Wine-Drummed and comely Fjorli,
Mjemk and Soress-li who never did yield,
Khela and Akhela with geas-traded shields,
Vemmab, Vashina, Frekshild, and Nem-yet,
Chemua of secret songs unneeded yet,
Anshalf who stole Towers from a Karstaag-man,
Borgasa and Dahna, who daedra outran.
…Have I proved myself yet, or do you want to hear more?
> Keep going. I want to hear more.
No, that's enough.
PLAYER: Keep going. I want to hear more.
ODDKELL: All right, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Then came the Five Eldest Thunder Shield Women,
Whose names were forgotten and thus never written.
Then the Harbinger's Totem-Uncles Ten,
Whose names we remember but won't chant again.
Ysgramor's Torc-Nephews: Khaalthhe the Pard,
Alabar Odd-Colored, Clever Man by blood,
Hegm the Deaf, of the Hegms the greater,
Bjurl who Heard Enough to Let Hegm Know Later;
Next in the number his Nieces-of-Snow,
Thuum-cursed to silence and still as a stone:
Teb and Mbjanal and Fehg-fegh the Deaf,
Tsjari their Speaker with war on her breath;
The creatures who swore to the Hoary King troth:
The Hoagbellows Goat, Hans the cunning Fox,
Fefmem and Gemalleir, the glow-eel two-headed,
Who slaughterfish, crabs, and Falmer all dreaded,
Bjorga-mawr wild, the Definite Leopard,
Hgmm the Snake and Febhradrneed the Cloud,
Jeorr the Rabbit-Hawk, Heimnelraw the Regular Hawk,
Rackety-Nix who the skalds say could talk,
Gremfell the Wicker-what, which no one could name
But was counted among the Mighty all the same,
Dyssl-veb the Bear with devil-scratched tusks,
Casket-Jane his wine-wife who filled all his cups,
And Ysgrim Ysgramorsbelt, counted as clan,
Though it never lived as beast or as man.
ODDKELL: …That's Ysgramor's immediate family. There's about four hundred more, shall I go on?
Yes
> No
PLAYER: No, I've heard enough.
ODDKELL: All right. If you are ever interested, I'm happy to recite the rest of it.
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