In this symbolic reversal of southern style, injustice, privilege and power are no buffer against an unavenged, incomprehensible death. |
The Crown Forces decided these murders would not be allowed to go unavenged. |
The poem ends, appropriately enough, at the tomb of Gunnar, the epic hero of Njal's Saga, whose death at the hands of enemies remains unavenged. |
She prays to the gods and recounts her deeds to them alleging that she dies unavenged as she shoves the sword in her body. |
They may try some quieting process, but we feel confident, knowing this people as we do, that our fall would not go unavenged. |
Third platoon was the last to leave and John knew that it was killing the Lieutenant to leave so many of her comrades' deaths unavenged. |