De Hominibus Qui
Fuerunt Ursi
Of Men Who Walked as Great Bears
“Non vt lupi rapaces per noctem grassantur, sed vt siluarum custodes, solo motu brachiorum quercus flectentes, dormientes in antris donec terra clamet.”
“They do not prowl through the night as ravenous wolves, but stand as wardens of the deep woods; bending oak trees by the mere movement of their arms, sleeping in caves until the earth itself cries out for their fury.”
An invented fragment in the style of a medieval chronicle (there is no real Gesta Septentrionalia). In its telling, unlike the wretched sufferers of lycanthropia, those blessed with the ursa-hamr were hailed as protectors of sacred boundaries, holy hermits, and kings who carried the bloodline of the mountain.