#alfadir

[eye-of-mordor]

I have many names.

I have called myself Grim, I have called myself Wanderer, Warrior and Helmet-Wearer, Famed One and Third One, Thunder and Wave, Hel-Blind and One-Eye, Truth, and Swift, and True Father, Battle-Merry, Battle-Stirrer, Curse-Eye and Fire-Eye, Evildoer, Spellcaster, Masked and Shadowed-Face, Fool and Wise Man, Long-Hat and Long-Beard, Victory-Father and War-Ready, Allfather, War-Father, Rope-Rider and Hanged-God. I have never been known by just one name since I first walked among men. — Odin, Grimnismal 46-48

[eagle-longing-for-rostau]

Everything is here. The story of myself. The story of my race. Here is where I was burned. The flames consumed me. Took away my skin, then remade me. In this image. In this form. But my heart is as old as your hearts, my friends. My heart is as old as wood. As old...as a tall tree...in this forest.

[father-of-the-void]

I have called myself Grim, I have called myself Wanderer, Warrior and Helmet-Wearer, Famed One and Third One, Thunder and Wave, Hel-Blind and One-Eye, Truth, and Swift, and True Father, Battle-Merry, Battle-Stirrer, Curse-Eye and Fire-Eye, Evildoer, Spellcaster, Masked and Shadowed-Face, Fool and Wise Man, Long-Hat and Long-Beard, Victory-Father and War-Ready, Allfather, War-Father, Rope-Rider and Hanged-God. I have never been known by just one name since I first walked among men.

Grimnismal 46-48

[droolworthysims]

[jeffreystewart]

Happy Thorsday - Alfadir (Odin)

Well here we are another Thor’s Day and another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes celtic) mythological characters.  This week it’s Alfadir. Odin the All Father, in one of his more regal aspects, as the Father to the Norse gods.  

[father-of-the-void]

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

[father-of-the-void]

I know where Heimdall hid his ear under the heaven-bright holy branches of Yggdrasil. I see a river that feeds the muddy waterfall where Odin's eye hides. Have you learned enough yet, Allfather? I sat alone when that ancient one came to me, Odin of the Aesir, and he looked into my eye. What do you seek from me, Odin? Why do you seek me, Odin? Odin, I know where you hid your eye in the famous waters of the well of Mimir. But Mimir can drink every morning from those waters where your own eye drowns. Have you learned enough yet, Allfather?

Voluspa 27-28

[father-of-the-void]