Criticism would be appreciated. Are these triads too long or something, I simply don't know. But anyway, here it is.
Balmyr love triad
Balmyr tribe knows three great romances: Old Balmyr and sweet Elea, who loved each other passionately, Ivarth Sweaty and Tarkala Trothful who didn't ever consummate their love and Horthgar Wordwright who was loved by every woman of the tribe.
Old Balmyr loved three things in sweet Elea: her youthful innocence, astonishing beauty and that she would make every man in Quiviniland jealous.
Thrice did they renew their vows: after the first year was over and their passion tested, after Elea had shamed him with Hrothgar and in the funeral pyre of Balmyr.
In three ways was this love of unique kind: no night went in the King's hall without Elea's moaning, no other thing restrained violent Balmyr from raiding endlessly but passion for his wife and never have people lamented so deeply but in the final farewell of these lovers in the pyre of Balmyr.
Ivarth Sweaty met Tarkala three times before they were in love: the first time he was irritated by her stubbornness, the second time she got angry at his rudeness and the third time they almost killed each other but felled hopelessly in love.
Three things kept them apart forever: They were of Hervald's and Haloric's blood and therefore of feuding lines, she had been married and Ivarth had killed her husband - but the most important thing that kept them apart was that they both were afraid of that great daimon Uleria bestowed upon them.
Thrice did people try to get them married: First it was Hengall Wise who took the blame of the killing of Tarkalor's husband, then her father Hemrid Hiordsson tried to persuade them as he saw their longing for each other and finally in many poems written after them where they are united more often than not.
Hrothgar Wordwright was loved for three things: his excellence with passionate words, his charisma that left no-one cold and his indifference of marrying anyone.
Three times he felled in love instead of being the object of someone's love: when he sang to Sorang's beautiful daughters, in the wedding of Balmyr the Brave and sweet Elea and when he received the Fourth Song from Drogarsi to spread amongst the people.
Three things were immortalized of his harp and heart: The passion of Balmyr and Elea, origins of the great feud that made the life of Ivarth and Tarkala dismal and his own self even though he never started a song to sing of himself.
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