This is so wonderful: Danish designer and photographer Jim Lyngvild has created an absolutely astonishing gallery of Danish women, public figures, family members, dressed as Völva, based on archaeological studies and findings in Viking graves. The presentations are authentic to the tiniest details, for example, Lyngvild himself dyed some of the linen used in a costume to achieve exactly the right shade of blue. The Völva were female, powerful, fearsome, indigenous spiritual leaders of the old Norse. (Nothing like the objectified, sexualized, obscene, pandering nonsense found on the internet). As Lyngvild jokes, people were often relieved when the Völva passed on and might put boards over their graves in hopes they wouldn't come back! All proceeds of Lyngvild's work go to the Danner Foundation. The first photo is of Lyngvild's mom.

(credits to: Cheryl Seelhoff follow her on FB)