Odin The One Eyed Wanderer – A4 size

“…It was on a cold winter evening, the snow was falling soft as a blanket and the whole world fell silent around me, when He appeared on my paper. I was sitting by the fire, sharpening my pencils and in my mind I saw his face so crystal clear, but I had no idea who He was. Yet.

He was accompanied by two ravens, I heard their raspy voices and felt their black feathers fly past me to land on my sketch paper. There was a gentle breeze made by their wings down my cheek and gave me a shiver, but a good one. One of those where you know something is about to happen…

And then my pencils kept breaking, I erased and erased and erased and erased… I almost erased a hole in the paper where his eye should have been. Until there nothing was left but a little white light…like a twinkling star. In that moment I knew who he was. Odin. God of knowledge, wisdom, the afterlife, magic, healing and the runes. He who traded his eye for wisdom. He who comes from the ancient world of the ice giants.

Thought and Mind made one more scratching sound and flew away to the nine worlds. With a mysterious smile he left and I have not seen him again. But the next day little mushrooms grew next to the woodshed where I had scattered the ashes from the night before…