"Forgotten By Human Hands, Yet Cradled By The Earth's Gentle Embrace, Beauty Reawakens"

I knew something was wrong

the day I tried to pick up a

small piece of sunlight

and it slithered through my fingers,

not wanting to take shape.

Everything else stayed the same—

the chairs and the carpet

and all the corners

where the waiting continued.

-Dorothea Grossman

The Binding of Fenrir by Mabel Dorothy Hardy

Surt comes from the south with a bright light in his hand. Yes, the Sun shines upon the sword in his grasp. The mountains collapse, the trolls fall, men walk the roads to Hel, and the skies divide above.

John Brosio (American, 1967) - Evening Dancer (2003)

Troll woman (a skogsrå, traditionally described as with either a tail like a fox, a back covered in bark, or a back that was hollow like a trough.) or huldra (tail, and usually hooves) putting the moves on a woodchopper.

Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa - Band I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae und Monocotyledones - Gustav Hegi - 1906 - via Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Morning Mists

(c) gif by riverwindphotography

emerald moth

JOHN BAUER /

"Look at them," troll mother said. "Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon." 1915