The Secret Hero Life
Artist: Grégoire Guillemin (He has a tumblr!)
These are amazing! And there’s more!
Reblogged with artist’s expressed written permission. All correspondence kept on file. Please do not remove the credits.
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The Valkyries (“Choosers of the Slain”) are beautiful young women, mounted upon winged horses and armed with helmets and spears. Odin needs many brave warriors for the oncoming battle of Ragnarok, and the Valkyries scout the battlefields to choose the bravest of those who have been slain. They escort these heroes, called the Einherjar to Valhalla, Odin’s hall.
The Valkyries are also Odin’s messengers and when they ride forth on their errands, their armor causes the strange flickering light that is called “Aurora Borealis” (Northern Lights).
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Since altar porn is apparently popular: here is Freyja and Freyr. I couldn’t get the ever-so-phallic asparagus, so the pots have wildflowers and a variety of lettuce called Apollo.
The accompanying maps, which were prepared for lecture-purposes, may perhaps be useful to others who want to illustrate a popular account of the Viking invasions of this country
the hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Distinctively shaped, Mjölnir is depicted in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome weapons, capable of leveling mountains. It is the weight of a neuron star, and returns to it’s mighty wielder whenever thrown