Moodboard #7 Norse & Vikings

Don’t waste your time looking back. You’re not going that way.

𝐕𝐈𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎)

You are already a legend. The greatest shield-maiden of all time.

Goodbye Lagertha, the valkyries will ride alongside and guide you to Valhalla.

Who knows, Ragnar, what the gods have in store for us. But this, I can never imagine. If you have gone to Heaven, then we will never meet again. And yet, I think Odin will ride like the wind, and rescue you, and take you to Valhalla, where you belong, my own sweet Ragnar. And there, there we shall meet again, and fight and drink and… love one another.

⚔️    We will see each other again in Valhalla, in Odin’s hall and we will be young again.  

Lagertha | Vikings “Death and the Serpent” 6.06 [x]

random vikings cinematography appreciation

Look what you have made me become.

VIKINGS MEME // 1 object → Shields

“Some of us will not see a dawn like this again. Not here on midgard, at any rate. So let us try and speak well of each other.”  – Rollo  {x}

At Midwinter, or Solstice, the Vikings honored their Asa Gods with religious rituals and feasting. They sacrificed a wild boar to Frey, the God of fertility and farming, to assure a good growing season in the coming year. The meat was then cooked and eaten at the feast.

During the festivities they burned a giant Sunwheel, which was put on fire and rolled down a hill to entice the Sun to return.

Another Viking tradition was the Yulelog, a large oak log decorated with sprigs of fir, holly or yew. They carved runes on it, asking the Gods to protect them from misfortune. A piece of the log was saved to protect the home during the coming year and light next year’s fire.

The Vikings decorated evergreen trees with pieces of food and clothes, small statues of the Gods, carved runes, etc., to entice the tree spirits to come back in the spring.

Ancient myths surround the Mistletoe. The Vikings believed it could resurrect the dead, a belief based on a legend about the resurrection of Balder, God of Light and Goodness, who was killed by a mistletoe arrow but resurrected when tears of his mother Frigga turned the red mistletoe berries white.