#hervor

[a-gnosis]

4: The Waking of Angantýr

And at that she sees where the grave-fire is burning over on the edge of the island, and she goes up there and is not afraid though all the mounds were in her path and the dead standing outside. She waded through the flame as if through fog till she came to the barrow of the berserks. Then she called:

"Awake, Angantyr! Hervor wakes you, only daughter of you and Svafa; from your crypt give me that keenest blade, the sword dwarves struck for King Sigrlami."

The Saga of Hervor and Heiðrekr, translated by Peter Tunstall, 2005.

[mndvx]

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS — You Will Gladden His Ravens (Episode 3) written by Peter Aperlo | directed by Tim Divar & Andrew Tamandl ››› Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Hervor ››› Sylvia Hoeks as Sigrid

[illustratus]

Hervör retrieves the sword from Angantýr by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub

Hervör awakens her father Angantýr's ghost from his barrow on Samsø to demand the cursed magic sword Tyrfing

[olvaheiner]

[multi-muse-transect]

I like to think Twilight Of The Gods takes place in a God Of War like era for mankind where Gods existed in separate countries. And this is basically the Japanese, Egyptian, Chinese, Hindu, Native American, and more’s reaction to the events:

[laurellerual]

For the fanart, could you do Val full shieldmaiden stlye, post-battle?

I am so proud of this! I love it, if I can say so myself.

I think that the equipment of the skjaldmær (shielmaiden) is quite historically accurate.

The swan feather cloak is not. I chose it because Val, shieldmaiden version, reminded me of  Hervör (also a shieldmaiden from the Hervarar saga ok Heiðrek). And  Hervör + Val reminded me of the homonymous valkyrie from the Vǫlundarkviða, also a swan-maiden.

I hope you like it :)

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Hervör with a Knife

I was playing around with the colors here.

I used one of mellon-soup's pose references on Pintrest. (As in I traced the pose as I could not figure out how to get the pose right. A friend helped me with Hervör's hand.)

[higherentity]