#borre

Bjølstad Brooch

Me apetece amarte... Amarte hasta donde el cuerpo aguante, y después amarte de nuevo. Que con caricias borre heridas de amores pasados, cicatrices que te dejaron al no quererte como yo lo hago.

Se me antoja robarte besos, extraviar caricias en tu piel, dejar grabados abrazos en tu ser. Quiero saborear tu tragos más amargos, deleitarme con el fuego de tus labios y dejar impresas las huellas de mis manos.

Hoy, mañana y pasado quiero amarte; y así sucesivamente, día tras día, hora tras hora... Que llenes cada minuto de mi vida, que incendies con tu luz mi alma enamorada de ti. Sólo por hoy, déjame amarte.

The newest box. The snake used to be in the Movement box. The elephant was in the Identity box. The bear, sloth and the orca were in the Potency box. The crow used to be in the Vision, now called the Sense box. The snow leopard was constantly moved between the Elemental box and this one, until it settled here.

Borre, the snow leopard of Caution

Sass, the snake of Repetition

Grizz, the bear of Preservation

Folli, the sloth of Procrastination

Inn, the orca of Affection

Miraii, the crow of Intuition

Møns Klint, Borre, Denmark

I was looking for resources on Viking/Norse art and art styles, and came across The Anatomy of Viking Art by Jonas Lau Markussen. It's a quick guide to the major styles of Norse animal ornament art, with maps, timelines, tutorials and descriptions.

The whole guide is freely available to read in its entirety online, and there are also downloadable graphics sets and illustrations.

Timeline of the Norse art styles

Tutorials explaining the anatomy of each style

shapes, outlines, flow, patterns, composition, and motifs

Downloadable graphics sets

Germanic and Norse inspired ornaments and designs, and border chain patterns (free for non-commercial use, reasonably priced for commercial use)

But wait, there's more!

A weekly newsletter, featuring original art and illustrations of Norse archaeological artifacts.

Most of the known Nordic rune stones are or will be listed, with transcripts in unicode runes, transliterated to Latin alphabet, and translated to English.

Sections under development on Germanic art and Norse runestone styles.

New tattoos done a few weeks ago. They are both done in the Borre (ca 850AD-950AD) art style, and have Old Norse in earlier Viking Period (pre-11th century at least) younger futhark that I translated and transliterated.

The runes around the gripping beast say, clockwise from upper left:

ᛋᛁᚴᚱᛁᚦᛦ

Sigriðr (My Manx cat who looks like a tiny bear)

ᛒᛁᚢᚱᚾ

Björn (Of course meaning bear)

ᛒᛁᚱᚾᛁᛦᚾᛁᛦ᛫ᛅᛁᚴᚢ

Birnirnir eigu

The bears own (this)

The runes around the Borre style hound say:

ᚢᛁᛚᚼᛁᛅᛚᛘᛦ᛫ᛚᛁᛏ᛫ᚱᛁᛋᛏᛅ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛅᛦ᛫ᛁᚠᛏᛁᚱ᛫ᚴᚢᛒᛁᚱ᛫ᚼᚢᛏᛦ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᚼᛅᚾ᛫ᚢᛅᚱ᛫ᚴᚢᚦᛅᛋᛏᛁᚾ

VilhjálmR lét rista rúnar eftir Kúper, hundr sinn. Hann var góðastinn.

William had these runes carved in memory of Cooper, his dog. He was the goodest.

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The design of Cooper's tattoo is based on the rune stone in the photo below, with the Borre hound used in place of the (what looks like Mammen or Ringerike style) one there.