#ringerike

[fascinatingeurope]

🇳🇴 Hotel Kleivstua in Eastern Norway, captured in the 1880s by the great Norwegian-Swedish landscape photographer Axel Lindahl (1841-1906). Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.

[foreignfirefly]

Sleipnir🐴⚔️

[kalessinsdaughter]

Viking Art Resources

I was looking for resources on Viking/Norse art and art styles, and came across The Anatomy of Viking Art by Jonas Lau Markussen. It's a quick guide to the major styles of Norse animal ornament art, with maps, timelines, tutorials and descriptions.

The whole guide is freely available to read in its entirety online, and there are also downloadable graphics sets and illustrations.

Timeline of the Norse art styles

Tutorials explaining the anatomy of each style

shapes, outlines, flow, patterns, composition, and motifs

Downloadable graphics sets

Germanic and Norse inspired ornaments and designs, and border chain patterns (free for non-commercial use, reasonably priced for commercial use)

But wait, there's more!

A weekly newsletter, featuring original art and illustrations of Norse archaeological artifacts.

Most of the known Nordic rune stones are or will be listed, with transcripts in unicode runes, transliterated to Latin alphabet, and translated to English.

Sections under development on Germanic art and Norse runestone styles.

[lambradire-art]

Wolf & Deer

A practice of Viking art styles (Ringerike, Mammen, & Jelling) mixed with personal touches

[musetta3]

I tried out a graphic style of portrait for my OC, Revka Cadash. I based her tattoos on Ringerike style Norse knotwork, popular in the 10-11th centuries.

[grandboute]

Viking drakkar styles - ship heads

[historyfiles]

Coverage of the various historical cultures, rulers, and states of Europe

The Norse Viking kingdom of Oppland was literally the 'uppland', occupying the more mountainous terrain inland between Ringerike and Møre.

[needles-and-pins]

Today I finally finished this axe, which I started a year ago. I bought the blade on Etsy from a Pakistani forge. It came rough, with a black coating. I sanded and polished it to mirror finish.

The blade is decorated in both sides with images of Sköll and Hati, children of Fenrir, who eat the sun and moon at Ragnarok. I also added the text concerning these wolves from the Elder Edda, which i converted back to runes from a romanization of the ancient Icelandic.

The handle, made of oak, is hand-carved into the image of a beast as designed by @jonaslaumarkussen. I used this design and his analysis of the Ringerike viking style for my wolf drawings.

The handle is a 4-strand leather lace braid.