Sacrifice (Limited Edition Print)
Sacrifice (Limited Edition Print)
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
Sacrifice
Better no prayer | than too big an offering,
By thy getting measure thy gift;
Better is none | than too big a sacrifice,
-Hávamál v146, Bellows translation
We all make sacrifices, but sometimes the thing that we must sacrifice is ourselves. We make an offering of our blood and being to the gods, to our families, our relationships, and our communities.
Sometimes we choose what we sacrifice, but sometimes we are chosen. The chooser of the slain moves amongst the crowd, and before we realize it we are called to sacrifice. Lifted up before the assembled masses, noose around our neck, we hang until there is nothing left.
When we wake the you that was is gone, dead, and the you that stands before is forever changed. Our younger selves sacrificed to the past. You are dead, and yet here you are. You can wallow in the darkness of your former self, or you can get up.
Pain is the beginning, but you are not alone. I see you. The gods and ancestors see you, and together we honor your sacrifice and your fight. Keep fighting, keep getting up.
Blood flows, but you only have so much. Better no offering than a gift too great, wise are you who knows when to give and when to keep. We would keep you, if you would but stay. No good can come of a corpse.
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This is a signed and numbered archival silk screen print, measuring 18"x24".
The original was created in ink by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 55 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
The lore of the Norse folk begins as so many stories do in darkness. A darkness so great that it was named Ginnungagap, the great void. Within that void there was a collision of cosmic proportions as the realms of ice and fire collided, creating the first rivers, and out of that river came the first being Ymir.
Ymir was the first giant, all jotuns and their kin are descended from him. The gods too burst from the sweat of Ymir’s armpit, so in a way Odin and his ilk are also descended from Ymir.
Odin and his brothers carved up Ymir to create Mid-Guard or as we would call it, earth. Ymir’s flesh was the earth, the ocean his blood, his bones became hills and his hair the trees, out of his skull the sky and his brains the clouds.
But before all of that Ymir was the first, a primordial being whose name in Old Norse means “Screamer.” Out of nothing emerges sound, the first scream of creation, a sound that we all make as we enter this world, Ymir the screamer in the void.
Like many other stories about the dawn of creations the Vikings understood that existence begins with sound.
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This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was drawn with black and white colored pencils on gray tone paper with a hint of acrylic white paint to really bring out the highlights, and Copic markers for shading.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
Odin has a deep connection to his ravens, wolves, and draupnir the ring that makes nine other rings.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was drawn with brush and ink.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
Loki gives birth to the great dooms of our world, yet is himself trapped in the cycle of his own actions.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was drawn with brush and ink.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
“In swelling rage, then rose up Thor, —
Seldom he sits, when he such things hears, …”
- Bellows Translation
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was drawn with brush and ink.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 16" x 20".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
The three Norns tend to the World Tree at the heart of the Nine Worlds, while a dragon gnaws at the roots.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was drawn with brush and ink.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was painting in oils measuring 11” x 14”.
The print will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12 inches x 16 inches.
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12" x 16".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This is a signed archival print of “Yggdrasil the World Tree” including the labels for the different 9 Worlds from Norse Mythology, measuring 16" x 20".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 16" x 20". It will ship in a rolled and hardened art tube. The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 15 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 16" x 24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18"x18".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 13"x26".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 14.5"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 25 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 18"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 10 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 14.5"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 25 copies.
This is a signed and numbered archival print, measuring 16"x24".
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.
This signed and numbered edition is limited to 30 copies.
This is a signed archival open edition print, measuring 12 inches x 16 inches.
The original was created in oil paint by artist Sam Flegal.