The Poetic Edda - Voluspo : Stanza 20 - The Norns

The Norns also call upon me this day to tell their tale this day from the Voluspa/Voluspo . So I will honor them and their words and do so. BlessedBe.

20.  Thence come the maidens  mighty in wisdom,
       Three from the dwelling  down 'neath the tree;
       Urth is one named,  Verthandi the next, --
       On the woods they scored, --  and Skuld the third.
       Laws they made there,  and life alloted
       To the son of men,  and their fates.

        

The Poetic Edda - Voluspo : Stanzas 17 and 18

  We have now come to the creation of the first man and woman of Midgard by Odin, Hoenir (Honir) and Lodur (Lothur).

17. Then from the throng of  did three come forth
      From the home of the gods,  mighty and gracious;
      Two without fate on  the land they found,
      Ask and Embla,  empty of might.

18. Soul they had not,  sense they had not,
      Heat nor motion,  nor goodly hue;
      Soul gave Othin,  sense gave Honir,
      Heat gave Lothur  and goodly hue.

Ask and Embla

Shieldmaiden Saturday #11

 I originally found 'Dark Valkyrie' at the deviantArt page of fluxen and it is also now on his own webpage Art of Sang Han.

  This is a beautiful dark piece of work that pulls at my heart. Then that is how all art speaks to me, it has to touch my heart and not my head.

Thorsday Thursday #7

Thor's Battle with the Ettins by Swedish artist Marten Eskil Winge in 1872.

Shieldmaiden #6; Louis Chalon Valkyrie on a Horse

 Louis Chalon's bronze and ivory sculptor of Valkyrie on a Horse.

Thorsday Thursday #6

 This time Thor is done by Carl Emil Doepler 'the Elder' from his works for Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring de Nibelungen.

Vegvisir

  Vegvisir, which means "sign post" in Icelandic, is an Icelandic magical stave that is intended to help the bearer find his way through rough weather. The symbol is certified in the Huld Manuscript ( which I as of now can find no information on), collected in Iceland by the Icelandic scribe and scholar Geir Vigusson in 18880 ( but consisting of material of early origin.

  A leaf of the Hauld Manuscript provides an image of the vegvisir, gives its name and in prose, declares that "if the sign is carried, one will never lose one's way in storms or bad weather, even when the way is not known".