Midgardsormr on Fingering - BFL/Silk/Cashmere
Midgardsormr on Fingering - BFL/Silk/Cashmere
70% Superwash BFL 20% Silk 10% Cashmere
400 meters per 100 g skein
A fantasticly good yarn quality made mainly of british bluefaced leicester wool. BFL is a long wool breed of sheep. It is crisp and soft at the same time. This is a yarn that would be perfect for a luxurious fingering-weight cardigan or sweater, as well as for accessories.
Out in the sea, the great serpent, Midgardsormr, lies wrapped around the world. It is one of the three children Loki had with the giantess Angrboða. Odin threw the serpent in the sea right after it was born. There it has grown so large that it surrounds all the world and bites its own tail. When the end times, Ragnarok, comes, the god Thor and the serpent will fight until they both die.
The venomous serpent
swiftly up
To the boat did Thor
the bold one, pull;
With his hammer the loathly
hill of the hair
Of the brother of Fenrir
he smote from above.
The monster roared,
and the rocks resounded,
And all the earth
so old was shaken;
Then sank the fish
in the sea forthwith
The lay of Hymir
An almost black blue-green.