#urnes

In december I am going to the Archeon Midwinter fair. Given that it will be winter my Tessiël kit wil definitely be too light so I figured I would take Alexandra of Novgorod out for a spin.

However when I created Alexandra of Novgorod I had situated her as a 14th century Kievan Rus. For the midwinter Fair I want to go back four centuries and make her a Varangian Viking instead. The coat and pants are still okay for that especially if you don't look too closely at the construction of the coat but the tunics are a bit too obviously 14th century so this was an excuse to make a pair of Bocksten tunics with some urnes inspired embroidery (thank you @ilsa-makes-things for you drafting tutorial )

This is the first one.

Rune Stone U489 in Uppland, Sweden

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.

While I am having a bit of a creative slump lately I have managed to continue chipping away at the kit of Alexandra of Novgorod (Varangian edition).