This is a collaboration between me and my friend Owen Bush. Owen forged this blade out of multiple complex pattern welded bars for a National Geographic tv show about the Staffordshire hoard called “Saxon Gold”. This is a very big blade and when we talked about it we imagined it …
Beyond the lightning veined clouds stands the ancient hall of the gods, Valhall. Pillars carved from the bones of the first giant hold up the moss grown roof. Upon the roof an ancient stag Eikþyrnir lifts his head to graze the leaves of the world tree, and the dew from …
“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.” -Ursula K. LeGuin This is a bronze sword I made for the upcoming exhibition, “The Sword- Form and Thought” at the Deutsches Klingenmuseum in Solingen Germany. It is …
Torc Triath 2008 Blade – 31 1/2″ Hilt – 6″ AOL – 37 1/2″ Weight – 2.6 lbs / 1.2 Kilo The embellishments on this sword are inspired by La Tene period ornamentation from Britain and Ireland. The overall design is inspired by the Kirkburn sword from yorkshire and other …
Vardhllokur – spirit song 2009 A viking sword from across the border of myth. This sword is a 3 bar composite pattern welded construction. The edge billet is 61 layers and the two center billets are 9 layers each, the steels used in it’s construction are 1075 and 8670m. The …
Tveirhrafnr – 2010 This is a dirk I made in 2010 depicting the ravens Huginn and Muninn from Norse myth sitting at the base of the world tree. OAL – 13″ Blade – 8 1/2″ Hilt – 4 1/2″ The blade is forged from 600 layer 1075/8670m steel, the fittings …
Winter like a crushing hand, like a fist, like a weight on my shoulders, on the house, the hills, the sky. Winter unending. Storms bred from a nest in the hills. You could see them swirling out and screaming down from the northeast and it was so cold the snow …
This drawing was inspired by Harald Wiberg’s beautiful paintings in Astrid Lindgren’s Tomten book about a kindly tomten who looks after the animals and children during the long winter nights on a Scandinavian farm. The svart-alf, however, is of a different nature than the friendly tomten, he comes up from …
I’ve always loved Norse myth and especially the figure of Odin who is willing to go to any length to achieve wisdom. This drawing depicts the stanzas of the poem Runatal in which Odin hangs himself from an arcane tree in order to find the secret of the runes. It …
A dagger is like a distillation of a sword, a sword-seed, and therefore perfect for a wizard. Perhaps the world is not as it seems. The forces that hold things together may be uncertain, not as we imagine them. The fourth dimension, ancient time, might be filled with secrets— secrets …