Freya by Blandine Anderson
Unique stoneware sculpture
26 x 26 x 10cm
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Norse goddess of war, love, peace, magic and fertility, is said to have worn a cloak of falcon feathers and travelled by chariot drawn by cats, attended by hares. One side of the base shows owls which were also associated with Freya, the other, war is represented by arrowheads. Neolithic stone arrowheads were latterly reused as protective charms, re-explained as elf bolts believed to have fallen from the sky during thunderstorms. Prehistoric stone axe-heads were believed to be thunderbolts and kept in the house, even in the bottom of a baby’s cradle, to protect it from lightning.