Simple Viking model

[Bob Penikas]

Howdy,

Here is a simple build with my enhancements.

BP

[Siwi]

Good trick with the spray and pliers to 'help' along a simple model - I would often build these kind of things as a kid and warping was an issue too. Back then I didn't know about formers and of course would just slap the glue on, and my Dad would have done the cutting if a knife was required...

[Don Boose]

Looks good!

þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna,
isig ond utfus, æþelinges fær.

Don

[LouCoatney]

My compliments, from Norway, Bob. :-)

[papermodelfan]

Hmmmm. Old Norse detected. Could this be some ancient Viking poetry?



I'm wildly guessing at a translation:


"There on the heath a "ringed stefna" stood
Isig and Utfus, fair noblemen."


Got to watch out for those stefnas, especially the ringed ones

[Wyvern]

Looks ready to go a’roving!

Wyvern

[papermodelfan]

Whoa - A miss is as good as a mile. It is Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and the account is of the ship-burial of Scyld the valiant (lines 25 and 26 in JRR Tolkien's masterful translation)



"There at the haven stood with ringed prow,

ice-hung, eager to be gone, the prince's bark...."

[papermodelfan]

of Beowulf

[wireandpaper]

Thank you Bob for sharing and thank you Don and (must be extremely busy) Rob for the lesson.

[THE DC]

Very nicely done!


DC~