The shield maiden

Imagine a dense Nordic forest in the depths of winter, where tall pines and firs, a Viking warrior woman with braided hair, war paint on her face, feathers in her long blonde braid, staring ahead, and three black wolves following her, are covered in a blanket of fresh snow. The air is cold and still, ...

Visualize a wintry Nordic woodland, dense with towering pines and firs blanketed in fresh snowfall. A Caucasian Viking female warrior, decorated with braided blonde hair adorned with feathers and face besmeared with war paint, is piercingly gazing into the distance. She is accompanied by a trio of ebony ...