Vikingr Compendiums

[NorseLady]

"The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias."

~ F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.�

~ Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.

And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.

Like stars..."

~ Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea."

~Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are - in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert - and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed."

~ Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea.

I always chose the sea."


~ Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul."

~ Oksana Rus
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"You’re throwing stones
across my water
but my inner sea stays calm,
whatever happens.

The peaceful sound of the moving water
makes everything fade . . .
and if waves will grow
it will be just to wash everything away."

~ Fernweher
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious."

~ Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don’t sleep like eyes. Those who live by the sea examine the driftwood and glass balls that float from foreign ships. They let scores of invisible imps loose out of found bottles. In a scoop of salt water, they revive the dead blobs that have been beached in storms and tides: fins, whiskers, and gills unfold; mouths, eyes, and colors bloom and spread. Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity."

~ Maxine Hong Kingston
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life..."

~ Oksana Rus
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Away from the sea I languish, I suffocate, I die! Ah! I believe that the waves roll their foam in my veins, that in my hair the tempest blows. My raptures and my cries are the echo of the ocean, my beauty is but a reflection of its waves. I feel it beat, roar, and abate by turns. Away from the sea all is ennui and sadness."

~ Deirdre Cavanagh, The Legend of the City of Ys
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names in the sand.
What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?
I write our names on trees that will be cut
and benches that will be painted,
but what of it?
I will keep on writing our names
because in this world of ephemera,
You and I are the only constant."

~ Kamand Kojouri
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth..."

~ Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

“Standing on the roof at night, beside the golden ship
I look across the city and I dream a wild trip.
The waves are high, the wind is strong, the moon is white and full.
I smell the salt upon the sea, a strong magnetic pull.
I shout into the endless dark, awaiting the reply:
'Away! Away' It says: 'Away! Now spread your wings and fly'."

~ Brian Selznick, The Marvels
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it has its pearls too."

~ Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

~ Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram."

~ Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.

[NorseLady]

"I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea: the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles, the spiritual communion with creatures in whose domain I sail. There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving."

~ Steve Callahan
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~Shy
Den Vinter Ulv, Harbinger av Fimbulvetr
Jeg kommer fra landet av is og snø.