greypetrel:Rune 101: Learn to make your eggs undestructable and prank your cryptid friends! Now on W

greypetrel:

Rune 101: Learn to make your eggs undestructable and prank your cryptid friends! Now on Webtoon!

It’s been ages since I posted here too, sorry! But anyway, I upped this comic too, probably you’ll have some reading to catch up if you only follow me here, buuuut… If you’re up for Edwardian shenanigans, here you go!

Till Queendom Come is a project about an Indian Rakshasi who’s trying to find her lost heart after the East India Company stole it, a Jotunn who didn’t feel like going back to Norway after the Vikings invasions, and the youngest granddaughter of the last druid of St. Ives who’s now trying to keep on the family tradition on her own in spite of being the wrong gender to do so.
Started as a project set in Edwardian England, born in a urge of sudden irritation about seeing Victoria being romanticised everywhere by a  cynical comic artist who majored in English. You can read it here on the hashtag #oscarpoppins (which was its unofficial title until now and in my mind will always be), or on Webtoon.

I was delighted to see a trollkors in the comic! I have one myself. However, I don’t think there is any evidence for trollkors as amulets before the 1990’s. That was then the design was created by the smith Kari Erlands from Dalarna in Sweden. She claimed it was modeled after a protective rune found on her grandparents’ farm, but this has not been verified as far as I know.

The principle behind the trollkors is very old, though. According to folklore steel and crosses were believed to protect against the trolls. If you carved a cross above your door, the trolls couldn’t enter. And if you carried some steel on you, you were also safe. It was good to put a pair of scissors in your unbaptized baby’s cradle, since scissors were both made of steel and crossed themselves.

Anyway, great update!

(Me with my trollkors.)