Dark elf performing dark seidr

 

A dark elf mage performing dark Seidr magic, The runes are of a set I developped myself, because i didn't want to use real runes for the language and words used in the painting. Intruiged? Just know that the runes are a combination of elder futhark and roman capital letters.

I you get te meaning of the words feel free to add them into the commentary field ;-)

dahuds last jump

 

Dahud An ys, the Briton princes keeps attracting my fascination, this is a picture of  here as the she jumps into the water while her city succumbes to the sea...

Sif's hair

One of the most famous episodes in Nordic Mythology

deer forraging

Nehalennia

valkyria resting after the battle

Dea Sandraudiga

 

Sandraudiga is Germanic Goddess only known from a single Latin inscription on an altar found in Zundert (The Netherlands). Her name means She who colours the sand red.

Several interpretations to this name have been proposed.
Some claim she must be a battle Goddess, colouring the sand in blood. Others say it has to do with fertility. The fertile grounds in the Zundert Aerea are quite reddish. In order to support their theory they refer to the horn of plenty carved out on her altar. And a last interpretation connects her to the production of iron, the red sands are quite rich in iron and proof of early iron reduction has been found in the neighbourhood of her altar.
So I though, why choose, she might just as well have been Goddess of all these elements. Fertility godesses are often battle godesses as well. And moving from swords to iron isn't hard either.