Algiz

A work for a Norse Zine project. I was given Algiz rune to illustrate, so here is a bit on my thought process:
The XIX century Norwegian loft house, serving both as a storehouse and a guest house — a little speck of light, man-made enclosure and warmth in a sprawling frozen landscape. The “outside” features a jotunn, a troll, a lindwyrm, a vofa or a White Lady, an ominously big wolf, and wandering lights.
A protection symbol is an homage to Bill Mayer or “Meditative Rose”. I know that megaloceros probably did’t live in Scandinavia, but, as you might derive from a straggling list of folklore characters, it’s not about location, and more about symbolism. And an ancient gigantic elk is a best representation of “elk’s horn”.

Fire he needs ‡ who with frozen knees
Has come from the cold without;
Food and clothes ‡ must the farer have,
The man from the mountains come.
. . . . . . . . .
Better a house, ‡ though a hut it be,
A man is master at home;