11" x 14" oil on canvas board

Collection: Pirate Fairies Gather Here

Created  August 2008

"A great woman too sang out in grief; with hair bound up, she unburdened herself of her worst fears, a wild litany of nightmare and lament: her nation invaded, enemies on the rampage, bodies in piles, slavery and abasement. Heaven swallowed the smoke. ... They let the ground keep the ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was."

(Beowulf, translation by Seamus Heaney)