"I know that I hung on a windy tree

nine long nights,

wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,

myself to myself,

on that tree of which no man knows



from where its roots run.



No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn,

downwards I peered;

I took up the runes, screaming I took them,

then I fell back from there."



Watercolour, ink, PS.

Cover artwork for The Illuminated Edda (Fate of the Norns)





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