Viking Embossed Designs
Viking Belts
We would like to introduce Kris Sayer of www.tatterhood.com. She custom created these designs for Green Man Leather. Inspired by Norse métier and myth, Viking artifacts come to live on our belts. Here is Kris' description on these exclusive belt lines!
We offer these unique designs with our English bridle leather.
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Skoll & Hati Wolves were important creatures to the Vikings. Odin had two wolves, Geri and Freki. On this belt, I designed the wolves with two specifically in mind – Skoll (treachery) and Hati (Hateful). Skoll chases the sun while Hati chases the moon. They will forever chase them until Ragnarok, when they will finally devour them. | ||||||||||||
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Hugin & Munin (Ravens - Thought and Memory If you travel to the famous place of pilgrimage Einsiedeln in order to adore the "Black Madonna" in her marble shrine, you may be surprised to discover two ravens as heraldic emblems of the Einsiedeln monastery. Actually this is a very heathen bird as two ravens These birds sit upon Odin's shoulders. They fly into the battlefield in search of information and return to Odin to whisper it in his ears. These birds serve an important function, because they report on warriors that fall in combat and are suitable to live in Valhalla and feast until the coming of Ragnarok. That's why Odin was revered as the omniscient God of Wisdom while the wise ravens were known as symbols of Odin. They are popular images seen throughout Viking artifacts. | ||||||||
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Friggs Belt Frigg is the wife of Odin, head of the Nordic gods. She is very mysterious, is sometimes mixed up with other goddess, and even though she knows the future she refuses to comment on it. The mystery of Frigg inspired this belt; the design itself is based on a piece of metalwork from Bornholm, Denmark, and details surrounding the metalwork are a bit of a mystery themselves. |
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Gosworth Belt This belt was inspired by carvings on the Gosforth cross, from Cumbria, England, that features numerous gods and scenes from Norse mythology.This belt is based on part of a design that turns into a two-headed beast; one of the heads, thought to be Fenrir, is battling Vidarr, Odin’s son. |
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