God’s Bless Ya! 01 – Skadi – Ragnarok Mythology Festival, Jelling, Denmark

Skadi
As part of our show featuring myself with Alda and Sigrun Bjork Olafsdottir and our stunning models we present costume, music, song and story for a Goddess experience.
Here are poems inspired by Skadi the huntress goddess followed by my narration for the cat walk and the beautiful Skadi costume designed by Sigrun is elegantly shown for us by our talented model displaying for you to the unique magic of Alda’s composition.

Skadi 01 – Follow Her Way
Thrymheim – storm-home
Huntress Skadi
Beyond loveless lava flows
Where ice burns
Beyond the burning blue crevasses
See her icy fury
Pale eyes growing cold in rage
Vengeance upon murderers
Stars of the father
look upon the just and fair
Be safe with Skadi
for as long as there is night
Her kind wildness in your heart

Skadi 02 – Finding The Warmth
Let love of winter lands
Bring firm cool flesh
Breasts and belly proud and smooth
By the cold
Yes fresh is best
All the better to fire the pulse of man
The beat of the heart
The firmness
The stand of the man
To find and join at last
With the inner secret warmth
Let flow the icy breath of ecstasy

Skadi 03 – Free Will’s Arrow
Goddess of the victim
Bringer of justice
Rights of the underdog
Huntress protection
Skadi will make you strong again
Watch for the buck’s run
Or the burst of icy waters
The stag’s breath
Be quick of eye; back on target
Laugh with all your heart
A giantess among women
The stars shine especially for you
Go where you will;
Free to love
Or free to love life alone
As and when it suits
The huntress in your heart

Skadi
Beware, for here walks Goddess Skadi, wild huntress of the far north. Beyond the blue crevasses, far over highest mountains, far beyond the loveless lava-flows, there is her abode; where stones crack, there stands her towering halls upon dark rock heights. Here she oversees the winter. Looking across the worlds of men and gods and darker beings. She sees you. She watches, ready, so beware, Skadi: judging the harsh, the cruel and the killer. She is your guardian dear victim, if you have been painfully treated you can call her spirit to you. You, yes you, she is here for you today. For she would stand against gods. Let her father’s eyes the stars look down upon you from the blissful dark.
Snow-dweller of cool firm flesh she has an inner secret warmth that she would share if you have the heart to be as free as her, yet how she loves, let old man Njord of the noisy sea dare to climb with her above the scree and ice crags, his beautiful feet clad in woven shoe, and he will find a young heart within him when he lays with her. Yes, she has joined with the oldest element of fertility, the ruler of the very winds, the tides; his currents flow as young as ever now. He brought her bounty and she brings bounty too.
Be swift of eye when she is with you, watch the buck’s dash and let your arrow fly. Let men wish for your darts of command so they may be with you for just one night. Let the toxic sharks dangle on your hook with forlorn hope, that they may be reeled in to breath the ice-cold air of redemption. You who brings in the wild goodness and embraces the gleam of low light that shines through the sheets of blue and yellow and silver ice. Let tall battlements be nothing of obstacle to those who know what is fair and just, for strong will be the icy rage if your Skadi-heart is not listen to with expected respect. Stand and face gods and Giants you follower of Skadi you.
Brave tall peaks of the impossible with her beside you for she brought laughter from the gods for all the worlds to be giants of reckless joy.
We are thankful now. For your wildness, for your beauty, for your joy, for your strength of heart and keen arrow. Skadi, we thank you, thank you Skadi.
Thank you

Adrian

And here is my Poem of the Goddesses, I have blogged it before but as it covers all the Viking Goddesses and the empowerment they bring you I thought it was worth you having a look see here. Besides, it just might give an insight into the future for Sigrun of just how much sewing she will be doing as our show grows and grows!
Goddesses of the Norse Mythology
Blessing the Goddess; Blessing the Earth
Experience again your Viking rebirth
Battle for love; believe in Freyja
Dive naked through waterfalls, Brunhild is here
As Amma will harvest and all will grow,
So Lin will serve; all beauty to show
Be old yet young be gathered by Berchta
Gently remember who you are through Snotra
Let Lofn be stirring your belief in romance
Be not forbidden feel Sjofn’s advance
Syn will defend you: Gefion make pure
Sunlight dances on water for the eyes of Saga
Birth be powerful; be proudful as Rind
Fly high with Sun; dance on the wind
Gna washes us clean; Audumla feeds
Fulla will fill, bringing forth all your needs
Jorth is at one with you, ever aware
Skuld, Urd, Verdani: your self is laid bare
Sif brings us gold; the sun on the corn
Nanna’s womanly peace gives joy reborn
Nurture regardless Angraboda
Be the mother of Gods; be as Bestla
Stronger than Thor, learn Glima with Elli
The power of Eir for healing and mercy
Nerthus has berthed us be at one in the world
Be guarded Sinmora no wounding unfurled
As mighty as Thrud you are Thorsdottir
Idunn dances bringing youthfulness near
Var fills our heart to make oaths of love
For Vor nothing is hidden within or above
Gleam with a beauty for Menglad will heal
Rise again with Gulveig to truly feel
Nine Mothers rise over us, take us away
Feel as strongly as Ran does; be free to say
Walk the plains with Ida you animal spirit
Be mother as Mothir as moments befit
Sygin forever brings freedom from pain
View the future with Groa; tomorrow is plain
These are the Goddesses bringing rebirth
Fjorgyn’s children – Mother Earth
These are the Goddesses bring rebirth
Fjorgyn’s children – Mother Earth
Adrian Spendlow
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