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Odroerir box

Some pyrography. The central symbol is Odroerir, with the three horns containing the mead of poetry stolen by Odin in Suttung home. This design contains the whole Elder Futhark, something obvious talking about wisdom and poetry isn't it? The box sides are adorned with dragons inspired by the Oseberg style.

Wes hal!

Viking Hairclipper

A Viking hairclipper for now. This one is inspired by the stone found in Gotland in the 7th century CE, depicting a Fylfot. We choose to add two side knots, making the final design abit more stylized.

Wes hal!!

Jörmungandr

More dragons for today's entry. This dragon is so special for us for a simple reason: it was the first one we did for a bracer. We were looking for something "viking" and there's no viking stuff without dragons and sea serpents isn't it? We will do a new version for this bracer in the future, keep tunned.

Viking Bracer

More viking stuff. We love dragons, specially Viking and Celtic dragons! It was a temptation to make another viking design for this bracer...

Waes hal!

Old Cuffs

Those are the first bracers we did following this double leather pattern. We were bored of one piece typical bracers, black dyed with nailheads, then we did those ones mixing nails with tooled leather in a viking way. The really first ones were the couple below, those with the Aegishjalmr (Helm of Awe). The Aegishjalmr was a Bindrune, usually carried between the eyes or in a helmet, confering an awful panic on the bearer's enemies. It is said that Aegishjalm is the lost Odin's eye, some kind of a "third eye" able to mesmerize a foe in all cases. It is also called "The eye of Fafner" as it results reading the Völsunga saga and Niebelung myths.

By the way, the bracer in the up side of the picture was another comission for a girl, she wanted a simple black version with a celtic knot, but we arrange to include it in the final pic.

Wassail!!

Jelling Bracer

Another "archeological" bracer. Our inspirantion was the Jelling style (Denmark 10th century), with a pattern found in a brooch showing a knot shaped dragon. We must say that this kind of bracers with nailheads are made with a protection layers on the bracer's inner side, avoiding any wearer skin damage.

Heilsa!!

Dragon Beltbags

Today is a chance for beltbags.

Turning back to ancient uses and considering the viking age structures, with celtic knots and Othal Rune, meaning the tribe and family kinship.
The central ornament is a typical nordic dragon, knot shaped, something common in elder germanic art manifestations.

The bags are absolutely hand tooled, and taking apart from the common ways, it's sewed with heavy sewing thread, instead the classic leather ropes.

Heilsa!!

Hugin ok Munin

Some pyrography for today's blog. Hugin and Munin, Odin's Ravens, or if you want: Wisdom and Memory. They fly everyday around the nine worlds and later they return to their owner to inform Him about all the things viewed in their travels.


The other ornaments in the box are inspired in the classic Oseberg style, related with the burial treasure found in Tønsberg (Norway), dated in 9th century CE. The front Fylfot its based in a Gothic eagle brooch made in the Balkans in 4th century CE. It has also a Runic inscription extracted from the Elder Edda's Grimnismál, st 20:

Huginn ok Muninn fljúga hverjan dag Jörmungrund yfir; óumk ek of Hugin at hann aftr né komit, þó sjámk meir um Munin.

Translation:

Hugin and Munin fly each day over the spacious earth. I fear for Hugin, that he come not back, yet more anxious am I for Munin.

Hope you like it.

The Mighty Sunwheel

Today's bracer is another classic one. The also well known Sunwheel. As all of you must know, sadly this symbol was misunderstood by the Nazi party in 2nd W.W. They took its meaning as representing the Arian race and so on... but the truth behind this is that this wheel is found in many places around the world such as Japan, India, places in Asia in many and diverse forms. In our case about Germanic traditions, at least represents a cicle of time: life-growing-death, or the year harvest. It is also a symbol of strenght and protection over adversity. Anyway, it never could be understood as a symbol of hate o racial supremacy.

Thor - The God of Thunder

This is a big one in all senses. The classic and well known Mjollnir, Thor's Hammer. It was used even before xtian times, although when xtianity came to Northern Europe, was used also as a pendant. There were many bracers hallowed to the Thunderer in Germania in Scandinavia in heathen times, so this one is our small tribute to the giants old crusher.

Opening the blog

Hello and welcome!!

We are opening this blog for first time to show everything about our leather and pyrography art (you can read more about us in our depiction). We choose a medium bracer to begin, with this funny design with animals that we found surfing the web. The snakes on the bracer sides are self-designed. Animals are quite common in germanic or celtic art, same as the best known knots, therefore you will find many animals in our work, as you will see in future posts.

Skal!