Thorskegga has started a series of paintings depicting the gods worshipped by the Anglo-Saxon and Norse settlers in England.
Skuld is one of the three Norns (fates) of the Norse myths. She is also a Valkyrie one of the goddesses that influence battle and choose who is to die. She is thus connected with death and the afterlife, hence the symbols in the picture, the memorial stone, the cremation urn, the apple (the food of the immortals) and the welcoming women bearing ale horns well known from ancient images of the afterlife.
She is shown beneath the World Tree which the norns protect. The swan is a symbol of the Valkyries and is a shamanic form of these goddesses.
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