British summer time is over and the clocks have gone backwards one hour
Warm and cosy indoors
going to work on my sketchbook tonight to try to keep up to date
and the picture is...
A depiction of Skaði by Carl Frederick von Saltza from Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda.
2 comments:
she's an attractive lass but why is she standing idly by while whatever liquid that is runs out on to the ground? we're in the middle of a big dry here in the southland and even a slight tapdrip provokes mild hysteria...let alone pix of random pouring...;-)
ahh she is a hunting goddess - the goddess of winter - where the name Scandinavia came from.
Think there may have been a thor. (Geddit?)
Thaw...
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