That tapestry in the background is based on a real viking age tapestry, found in the Jämtland county in 1910. This is an anachronism, since the actual tapestry was made 200 years after this setting, buuuut, I coudn’t resist. Besides,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tröndelag is, as mentioned earlier, a Norweigan province, and Birka was a city on Sweden’s east coast that was an important trade center in the viking age.
In norse mythology, Folkvang was Freya’s realm. It was told that she took half of all dead warriors there, and some interpretations say that those that she took was the women.
Fact 1: Birch bark was commonly used like parchment by the vikings. Fact 2: Gårdarike was the viking’s name for western russia. Fact 3: Niflhel is, according to some interpretations, the lowest level of Hel, which could be concidered an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rune time! they’re writing in the younger futhark alphabeth, which is the one that would be used in this comic’s time period (around year 900) but the stone in the foreground is an older stone, written in older futhark.
Wooden idols of that time was a common occurance in the viking age. Also, that’s dried henbane flowers.
