EMERGING WOLF - STAINLESS STEEL
This ring has a wolf emerging from the flat surface of the center of the ring. The wolf's fur ruffles around and extends to the borders of the ring. The sides have a blooming and reaching out towards the rings center quality to them making it a perfect fit for casual wear. Thematically, Ymir is the personification of the chaos before creation, which is also depicted as the impersonal void of Ginnungagap. Both Ymir and Ginnungagap are ways of talking about the limitless potential that isn’t actualized, that hasn’t yet become the particular things that we find in the world around us. This is why the Vikings described it as a void (as have countless other peoples; consider the “darkness upon the face of the deep” of the first chapter of Genesis, for example). It is no-thing-ness. But it nevertheless contains the basic stuff out of which the gods can make true things – in this case, the primal matter is Ymir’s body, which the gods tear apart to craft the elements. It’s extremely fitting for Ymir to be the progenitor of the giants, for this is the general role the giants occupy in Norse myth. They are the forces of formless chaos, who are always threatening to corrupt and ultimately overturn the gods’ created order (and at Ragnarok, they succeed). But the giants are more than just forces of destruction. In the words of medievalist Margaret Clunies Ross:
Size:US 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Metals Type: Stainless Steel
Material: Metal
Item Type: Rings
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EMERGING WOLF - STAINLESS STEEL
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