A Vinland Corvid

@vcsabertooth

Just a place to experiment with likes and dislikes . Oh let's just get this point across. I am no fan of Hate Groups. Especially, those that take my Heritage and try to turn it into something it never was nor would have never endorsed. My Scandinavian heritage means more to me the anything. Trying to twist that and it will get you banned.

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dbkcustomscabbards

A recently completed commission for the Albion Sankt Annen.

dbkcustomscabbards

A recently finished 'silver & black' themed scabbard commission for the Albion Brescia Spadona.

smoothwhisper

ur-folk

Above image from Eighteenth-century Icelandic manuscript.

Gylfaginning 39 (Prose Edda):

The goat Heiðrún stands on top of Valhǫll and eats the leaves from the branches of that most famous tree, Lærað. From her udders streams the mead that daily fills a vat so large that from it all the Einherjar satisfy their thirst.

ur-folk

A primstav is a traditional Scandinavian calendar staff, usually made of wood and marked with symbols and pictorial signs for the days of the year. It was used in the Middle Ages to track agricultural tasks, seasonal changes, festivals and Saint’s Days. The above cropped photo, part of a larger Norwegian primstav, depicts images of Midsummer.

SA 4.0, Norsk Folkemuseum https://digitaltmuseum.no/011023128311/primstav

ur-folk

Below text from Indo-European Fire Rituals: Cattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony page 44 (Routledge, 2022) by Anders Kaliff and Terje Oestigaard:

"Thor has been seen as the god protecting households and the hearth. Following folklore, fire originated from Thor's lightning, and therefore lighting would never harm a house where the fire was burning in the hearth or the stove."

vcsabertooth

Sad the house with a fire burning in the harth was false…