Morning Sketches

I am collecting the Northlanders comicbooks and I was looking through one subtitled Blood in the Snow. The book collects stories about Scandinavian warfare. Since most of my paintings are of manly men fighting to death with nasty objects. I probably have missed a certain fact that when vikings run out of good men, they would leave quite a few husbandless women. This state of matter would force them to go for the vikingr and pillage a bit. Scandinavian women were almost as bold hearted as their men.

Starting from left.
-The first image shows the Odins court with the chief god brooding on his throne. The chamber stands tall, at the back wall there is a valknut banner (valknut - three interlocking triangles, symbol of slain warriors.)
-I guess this is one of vikings charging a line of a shieldwall with an axe. I guess it might be a feud of two families or tribes.
-Valkyrie. The image shows halls of Valhalla the court of slain where dead feast and cheer. The Valkyries are Odins beautiful maidens that serve during evenings of celebration and bring dead to the after-world.
-Shieldmaiden. Her village is on fire a housewife picks up a sword of possibly her butchered husband and presses on. Her enemies are stunned by the fact that a woman put on a fight. Guessing Normans brought up in the Christian faith were accustomed to women being inferior than men. Norse women are equal to their men. However, she doesn't have much time, it's time to run or die of retaliation.