Silver Cup with depictions of the goddess Freya (1000 AD),
From the Viking hoard found in Lejre in 1850.
National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tired of all who come with words, words but no language I went to the snow-covered island. The wild does not have words. The unwritten pages spread themselves out in all directions. I come across the marks of roe-deer's hooves in the snow. Language, but no words. -Tomas Transtromer
The Swan Maiden, from Among Gnomes and Trolls No. 2 by John Bauer (1908)
Sunbeam, Ekaterina Goldinger
Cloud Study, John Constable, 1822, Tate
Presented anonymously 1952 Size: support: 476 x 575 mm frame: 605 x 705 x 70 mm Medium: Oil paint on paper on board
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-cloud-study-n06065
The Skogsra, also called the Hulder, live deep in the forest, feasting on the souls of men who follow after them. Skogsra look almost human but can be distinguished by their short tail and a hollowed-out back.
Moss and mushrooms
"to dwell in a forest of fir trees" read my dark fantasy viking age novel thralls of skuld on tumblr // wattpad
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