a small poem on ragnarok

RAGNAROK

Harbards Helmets
glowing with glittering gold
steadfast standing
the heavenly haven hold

frozen faces
staring in streaking storm
princely paying
the terrible trolls toll

firm followers
sheltering behind sharp shields
following fearlessly
the hollow honking horn

thunder thorn
steps seven strong
followed firmly by
to towering trumps

hard hit
by the wirlings weapons wrath
the cracled casket
into silences sleep slips

the wrathfull wolf
finally freed of festers
lusfully leaps
on Greybeards grim garment

priceless power
lustfully lost in love
deerly damages
the poor potentate of pigs

as darknesses death
finally falls fearfully
under the limetless line
the unworldly utter unanswered remains

"Is this the end of all?"

metal foundry

tjaffi

Tjaffi broke the bones of Thors hegoats.
I always suspected Loki had something to do. Actually that is what most people seem to think.
Loki as trickster undoubtably played on the young lads feelings sayning things like the ones I put in the text. In short: eat what you like, just take only those who take what they want can become great heroes.

draken

Een paar verstrikte draken. Oorspronkelijk met stiften getekend. Dan ingescanned en hertekend met door de kleuren te vervangen door ge-egaliseerde kleuren uit het kleurenpalet van paint.net.

allfathers eye

It sees all. As he sits upon his high seat the allfather spies around the known worlds, unknown to those he observes...

Mjoelnir

An impression- in the 4 basic colours- of Thors hand (in iron gloves) holding mjoelnir.
The worldsnake is circuling oraound him. It almost seems it is strangling him, as he tries to break free.

Sjöfn

In Norse mythology, Sjöfn is a goddess associated with love. Sjöfn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in three kennings employed in skaldic poetry.

In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High provides brief descriptions of 16 ásynjur. High lists Sjöfn seventh, and says that Sjöfn is "concerned to direct people's minds to love, both women and men." In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Sjöfn is included among a list of 27 ásynjur names. Otherwise, the name Sjöfn is thrice employed as a base word in skaldic kennings for "woman".

Regarding the information given about Sjöfn in Gylfaginning, John Lindow says that the word sjafni does indeed appear listed in the þulur as a word for "love", yet that outside of this description no information about the goddess is known. Lindow states that some scholars theorize that Sjöfn may be the goddess Frigg under another name.Rudolf Simek says that Snorri may have derived his etymology of Sjöfn from the Old Norse words sefi ("sense") or from sefi (possibly "relation"), but that the scant references to Sjöfn do not allow for much more of an elaborate explanation for the goddess. Simek says that, accordingly, Sjöfn is viewed as a goddess of "marriage and love, or else one of relationships" and that Sjöfn is among several goddesses mentioned in the Prose Edda "who are matron-like guardian-goddesses."
Modern culture

'Sjofn' is also the name of an album by the Finnish band Gjallarhorn, released in 2000.

Sjöfn appears as a regular character in the New Zealand television series The Almighty Johnsons.