My Pict (pit-fired clay; hammered copper) --
with someone else's Thor in the background.
I must say that my own sense of the Orkneys comes, chiefly, from Dorothy Dunnett's treatment of those fabulous northern islands in her King Hereafter, that wonderful historical novel of Thorfinn of Orkney, of Macbeth, and of the Celtic/Pictish/Norse mixture that infused those islands. Seamus Heaney's brief references in his North, the poetry of Orkney poet George Mackay Brown, Henry Treece's historical novel Splintered Sword, the classic Orkneyinga Saga, and R. E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn have also informed my imagination here.
Unfortunately, I've yet to experience Orkney for myself, though I expect to visit in the next decade or so.
Thor as thinker? More than you might think, surely. Check the Eddas.
Thor as thinker? More than you might think, surely. Check the Eddas.
