#skirnismal

[snorri-the-door]

“Me and the baddie i pulled by getting my servant to threaten her with unspeakable horrors”

(I know it’s skirnir in the pic)

[berensreverie]

Skirnismal

[hiljametsa]

Kostir ro betri heldr en at klökkva sé, hveim er fúss er fara; einu dægri mér var aldr of skapaðr of allt líf of lagit.

'There is always a better choise than cowardice, if you have an issue to handle; one day, long ago, my life was already shaped, and my fate was fixed.'

-- Skírnismál, st. 13

[poeticnorth]

Hymn 75 out of ??? from The Great Heathen Hymn Book™️ (Working title)

Hymn to Gerðr

Skirnir’s message to Gerd by W. G. Collingwood, 1908 To you, Gerðr, I sing nowThe maiden dearest to FreyWith your glittering armsFrom which

[elliegoose]

Reminder that Freyr's reaction to seeing a giant woman with beautiful arms was to become so deeply consumed by his feelings of longing that he refused to leave his room, and both his dad and his servant/childhood buddy had to confront him about it. 

In doing this, great Freyr gave us one of the Biggest Moods in all of Norse myth.

[gefdreamsofthesea]

Skírnismál is thus neither a purely Norse nor a purely oral composition.

Hey look you guys it’s the myth I love to hate.

[poeticnorth]

Aaaaaand I've gone and done half of Skirnismal as haikus. I'm sure where this inspiration and motivation has come from but keep it coming and I might actually have the Haiku Edda finished by next yeat

[norsemythologyanimated-blog]

More Skirnir (with a new color scheme) from the Skirnismal! Now starring his lantern and the dawning realization I never shade anything.

...There’ll be a real background at some point, I swear.