The Goddess of the underworld in Norse mythology. Her skin should be part bluish like a corpse, part normal human skin. She has a knife called hunger and a plate called famine. Her hall is called Eljudnir, the rain-wet, and it has the colours of darkness and flesh. Her realm lies below the tree of the world, so I let her hair grow upwards to be part of the roots of Ask Yggdrasil.
Another evening painting made yesterday, while my wife lay on the sofa sleeping under a small mountain of wool and feather duvets.
The knife on the picture is actually my own design. I have made it together with my brother, who is a black smith in his spare time. It is inspired by Nordic Iron Age knives and is used every day in my kitchen.
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The old gods are much more interesting than what I was brought up on. I might have believed in these, or at least read the stories.
Have you mentioned your knife before? It sounds familiar.
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Yes, there's a lot to gain by reading the original Icelandic texts on the Norse mythology.
As for the knife I just found those old posts. @evilhippie made a post about how he made the knives: https://peakd.com/craft/@evilhippie/the-birth-of-a-blade-6-the-madsted-knife
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Have you read Gaiman's version? I assume he does not read Icelandic. I think I saw someone had based a comic on his book.
Those knives are really cool. Did you see the show Ragnarok on Netflix? I liked how the 'giants' had all their kitchen knives just stuck in a log. Possibly not best from a safety point of view.
No, I haven't read it, but it has done a lot to further the knowledge among people I think. Here in Denmark the stories are everywhere in children's literature, comics and books in Danish his book has a lot of competition (I guess we are rather proud of these old tales). I did read his American Gods which was great, and it also has some of the old Norse tales in it, not least the hanging of Odin.
I need to check out the next season of American Gods on TV. It's a long time since I read the book, so that needs another read.
It's a TV show! Didn't know that :) I will look it up tomorrow.
Wow! It's amazing.
Thank you!
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