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The last Folksmother
The last Folksmother
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Linoprint (in progress)
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Very well done! What is the actual size?
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This is around A4, without border. I plan to print it on A3
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If there is any scenes or other depictions you would like to see from the manuscript or its concepts be made into an illustration, I will gladly make it. I’m getting to the point of starting printing my first attempts.
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Thank you so much! These are great suggestions.
I have the bad tendency to rush through texts, so please correct me, but I understand the borg to be the circle wall with defences surrounded by a moat with two similar longhouses and a stone tower with an entry on a higher floor so the stairs could be hoisted up, as I’ve seen in depictions of medieval borgs, that were just a tower. They could be merged into one building. The tower in the middle is the actual borg as far as I understand, borg meaning safehouse, or ‘keep’ in castles. If my understanding is correct the measurements are about 30 metres high, 6 wide, in stone, the longhouses 6 high and wide and 30 long, made of wood, (or also stone?) probably they are groundlevel, but all could be on a raised mount, maybe even steps like greek temples. They could be positioned on the yulespokes or straight like the trelleborg houses, beside the path from gate to borgtower, a shape that is seen in many castles/landhouses, creating a court.
If there are steps this could even create an amphitheater in the court.
The.mother could be holding audience in all three.
The yule could be just the round wall, or maybe garden patterns or pillars like in timekeeping sanctuaries. I also think there was a garden maintained by the maidens. And maybe the houses outside the moat were circuluarly positioned, and may have another wall and moat, aproaching Atlantian design.
Anyway, the other ideas are what I was looking for, because pictures can make the text more inviting, and
I would love to make some heroic, ‘biblical’ stuff. I’ve tried the minerva scene but this was very elaborate. I have to work up to it.
I am working on an image of Freya. Thanks again!
I can post pictures when my current pc troubles are fixed.
I have the bad tendency to rush through texts, so please correct me, but I understand the borg to be the circle wall with defences surrounded by a moat with two similar longhouses and a stone tower with an entry on a higher floor so the stairs could be hoisted up, as I’ve seen in depictions of medieval borgs, that were just a tower. They could be merged into one building. The tower in the middle is the actual borg as far as I understand, borg meaning safehouse, or ‘keep’ in castles. If my understanding is correct the measurements are about 30 metres high, 6 wide, in stone, the longhouses 6 high and wide and 30 long, made of wood, (or also stone?) probably they are groundlevel, but all could be on a raised mount, maybe even steps like greek temples. They could be positioned on the yulespokes or straight like the trelleborg houses, beside the path from gate to borgtower, a shape that is seen in many castles/landhouses, creating a court.
If there are steps this could even create an amphitheater in the court.
The.mother could be holding audience in all three.
The yule could be just the round wall, or maybe garden patterns or pillars like in timekeeping sanctuaries. I also think there was a garden maintained by the maidens. And maybe the houses outside the moat were circuluarly positioned, and may have another wall and moat, aproaching Atlantian design.
Anyway, the other ideas are what I was looking for, because pictures can make the text more inviting, and
I would love to make some heroic, ‘biblical’ stuff. I’ve tried the minerva scene but this was very elaborate. I have to work up to it.
I am working on an image of Freya. Thanks again!
I can post pictures when my current pc troubles are fixed.
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I re-read about the borg, and see much where I was wrong. A funny thing to find out about myself. Maybe it’s because I read the book, and this continuous wiki-text is easier readable.
So now I picture the whole thing in stone, exept for maybe the base of the ring wall. The halls are very long, maybe all the way from north- to southside.
There are additional houses on north and south side, maybe two to the side and one inbetween the halls on the tower axis.
Fighting practice is outside the borgwall. And this area is scarcely filled with houses and defence materials, and a real ring dyke surrounds all of this. Would the outsides be shaped like starforts?
Then the Liudgarda is inside that outer ring or a separate walled area outside of it.
Completely different than my drawings anyway, much less primitive than I thought.
So now I picture the whole thing in stone, exept for maybe the base of the ring wall. The halls are very long, maybe all the way from north- to southside.
There are additional houses on north and south side, maybe two to the side and one inbetween the halls on the tower axis.
Fighting practice is outside the borgwall. And this area is scarcely filled with houses and defence materials, and a real ring dyke surrounds all of this. Would the outsides be shaped like starforts?
Then the Liudgarda is inside that outer ring or a separate walled area outside of it.
Completely different than my drawings anyway, much less primitive than I thought.
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I think the parts where the abroad Frya folk interact with characters from known other sources — e.g. Alexander, Nearchus, Demetrius — could qualify well, which was also one of Coco's suggestions. That there exist depictions of these known names may make it somewhat easier.
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Great suggestions!
I would also love to see: a mother instructing her child, an expression of the friendliness towards other folk, the (collective) condemnation and exposure of the wrongdoer and the wrongdoing, the uniqueness and beauty of the differences between different folk, the hunger that couldn’t be stilled by gold, the Dutch/Frisian setting, the rescueing from the flood of the manuscript “together with you and your mother”.
There is so much that could beautiful be depicted!
Keep up the good work!
I would also love to see: a mother instructing her child, an expression of the friendliness towards other folk, the (collective) condemnation and exposure of the wrongdoer and the wrongdoing, the uniqueness and beauty of the differences between different folk, the hunger that couldn’t be stilled by gold, the Dutch/Frisian setting, the rescueing from the flood of the manuscript “together with you and your mother”.
There is so much that could beautiful be depicted!
Keep up the good work!
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the hunger that couldn’t be stilled by gold,
Thank you Helena, Jan, Glad I can move on from my idees-fixes.
Helena, can you link to the text for this suggestion?
Thanks for all the apreciation.