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Day 25: Viking.
A redraw of one of the character designs for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I was trying to get that “I want to murder you” face down and I think I achieved that?
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my entry for the brainstorm challenge on facebook. the prompt was to design a fantasy environment using the elements ‘ice’, 'castles’, and 'vikings’.
https://www.facebook.com/eddie.mendoza.art
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THE WOLVES ARE WATCHING
by Natalie Lund
Viking | Oct 4 | 9780593351093
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The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes–two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house–and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It’s notthe kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows.
In town, people are quick to blame Madison’s mom. But when Luce’s English teacher shares an original script about the disappearance of another little girl in Picnic back in 1870, Luce begins to notice similarities that she can’t ignore. Certain that something deeper is going on, Luce tracks the wolf she saw into the woods and uncovers the truth about her town: magical animal-women, who have remained hidden in shadows for centuries, have taken her cousin for their own purposes–and they have no intention of bringing her back.
A chilling mystery that weaves elements of magical realism, drama, and folklore into a story of one teen’s bravery as she confronts her town’s past and tries to save the future.
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Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic explorer who circa 1010 AD led an attempt to settle Vínland with three ships and 160 settlers. Thorfinn’s wife gave birth to a boy in Vínland, the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World. In 1918, Einar Jónsson, an Icelandic sculptor, created a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni which was placed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Fairmount Park, along Kelly Drive, near the Boathouses. There is another casting of the statue in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Helm of Awe / Ægishjálmr
Some background on the Helm of Awe:
Like most popular “norse” symbols, there’s a lot of ambiguity around the Helm of Awe. It is mentioned in old Norse text like the ‘Poetic Edda’, but no visual description or illustration is given. The symbol we now equate to the Helm of Awe comes from the ‘Huld Manuscript’ a book of Icelandic magical staves, which was written/compiled in 1847—well after the Viking age had ended and Scandinavia had been Christianized.
Its ultimately not possible to be certain that the symbol we use today under the name “the Helm of Awe” is the same one described in old Norse texts, but it’s likely not. Many experts point to the similarities of the Helm of Awe (and the visually similar Vegvísir) to symbols from ‘The Key of Solomon’.
The Helm of Awe—regardless of what it may have originally looked like—is said to be a magical symbol that, when worn (usually on the forehead, between the eyebrows) would give you strength tantamount to invincibility in battle.
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Moody & beautiful Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral. #Iceland #reykjavik #cathedral #church #architecture #lutheran #lutheranchurch #capital #travel #blackandwhite #monochrome #hill #history #viking #vikings (at Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral Church)
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Hail to Skadi, the Goddess of Winter, the Goddess of the Hunt; the White Wolf. We feel you.
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And the old gypsy woman said to me, “Draped in your animal furs, protect yourself from the cold, my child, my child. Live off the land the Gods have given us, for they can as easily forge a monster strong enough to take it away. A monster within, my child, my child.”
Yes, this is me, I may start posting pictures of myself to put a face to this blog.
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Daily life of Vikings
Picture by Sebastien “Myskia” Dusart
(Association viking de reconstitution historique Grävlingar - Lyon, France)
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Daily life of Vikings
Picture by Sebastien “Myskia” Dusart
(Association viking de reconstitution historique Grävlingar - Lyon, France)
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Daily life of Vikings
Picture by Sebastien “Myskia” Dusart
(Association viking de reconstitution historique Grävlingar - Lyon, France)
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