#fjallkonan

[empyrean-realm]

Watercolour of the Lady of the Mountain, 1864, by Johann Baptist Zwecker. Now in Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum.

[kallenchi]

Some drawings from my recent trip to Iceland with @lightgreyartgallery.

[danmarks-styrke]

@fjallkonan has requested a starter!

Seeing the Icelander, Matthias swung a strong arm around her, drawing her in close and smooching her cheek. “I’m glad I could drag you down from your rock of an island, Elin.” He laughed, tugging the poor girl with really not a breath of freedom for her to move down the cobblestone streets of Copenhagen. “Aleks wanted to welcome you too, but he has to do some weird work thing and, meh, we don’t need him to have a good time.” “You’re staying with us, right? Not in a hotel? ‘Cause if so, we’re getting you a refund for the hotel and you’re coming to stay with us.”

[overthefjords]

@fjallkonan liked for a starter

“No, look, I’m telling you that they’re supposed to look like tiny freaks of nature.” Aleks said, holding Saga in his arms, the lundehund turned over on her back so they could see the absolute chaos that were her feet. Six webbed toes on each foot, it looked like some kind of breeding project gone wrong. “I love them, and I also love the weird looks they get. It’s endlessly hilarious to me when we take the beasties to the dog park and all of the uptight dog moms clutch their tiny ankle biters like mine will literally eat them.”

[mariagislart]

Started new work with old subject. Fjallkonan-Lady of the Mountain. Work to follow me into the new year. . . . #ladyofthemountain #womanofthemountain #iceland #mothernature #fjallkonan (at Reykjavík, Iceland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vSo_XAeri/?igshid=lvzbzf61tl9u

[miniar]

Trans woman becomes incarnation of Iceland

The Lady of the Mountain (Fjallkona) is the national personification of Iceland and always makes an appearance on the 17th of June, Iceland’s National Day, wearing the “Skautbúningur” which is the most prestigious type of the women’s Icelandic costumes. Often portrayed be actresses, the Lady of the Mountain takes the stage and reads a poem, a tradition since the establishment of the Icelandic republic in 1944. Eva says she had heard a rumour within the trans community that the organisers in Hafnarfjörður were looking for a trans woman. “I thought it would be thrilling but was hesitant at the same time. But when they contacted me a few days later I thought it was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse, a once in a lifetime chance to be the Lady of the Mountain.” “This is a huge honour … a validation of my being a woman, just as much a woman as all the others who are women in spite of … their variation from the stereotype of a woman. Hopefully, the stereotype is fading in the sense that all kinds of women will be accepted, because we are of all kinds.”

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[year-of-the-dead]

Year of the dead #375 - 11. August 2017

[danmarks-styrke]

​❛ the benefits of killing him would be that i’d be pushed way less . ❜

iconic vines sentence meme [accepting]

“But wouldn’t it be more fun to just slowly make his life miserable and inconvenient? ...Who are we talking about, anyway?”