Old Norse Wise Woman 3D print model

Quote Wikipedia: In Germanic paganism, a seeress is a woman said to have the ability to foretell future events and perform sorcery.(...) In Norse mythology the seeress is usually referred to as völva or vala.(...) After the Roman Era, seeresses occur in records among the North Germanic people, where they form a reoccurring motif in Norse mythology. Both the classical and the Norse accounts imply that they used wands(...).The term völva meansstaff bearer.

This is a 3d printable model of an old völva. She bears a bizarrely formed staff with a stone sphere on its top. Her clothes and jewellery suggest that she is not poor; she wears an undershirt, a shift and over it a hangerock, she owns shoes and has a well worn fur with silk trimming over her shoulder.

Wise women were highly valued in Norse society, but they were not priestesses or like. The sagas describe them as ritual specialists who wandered from settlement to settlement, sometimes followed by a group of disciples, and it seems that they received payment for their services. Archaeological excavation of female burials that contained the body of a völva, the archaeologists found luxury items, jewellery, even whole carriages and human and animal remains of probable sacrifice victims. It should be noted that there is no evidence in the sagas, though, of a völva performing sacrifices.

The völva's right hand is raised in a greeting, blessing or soothing gesture. For her face I leaned heavily on the sculpt La tradición by Agapito Vallmitjana Barbany from 1884 in the Biblioteca Museo Víctor Balaguer (Villanueva y Geltrú) and the formidable 3d sculpt of the bust by Giravolt.

The file is for a hollowed out model in 90 mm heigt, but the details of the sculpt make it easily possible to print it in scales up to 1/10. It comes in two parts, the left hand, lower arm and staff separated from the rest to make for better painting of the printed model.