Havsfrun by Anna Dalvi

Havsfrun

Knitting
March 2011
Lace ?
US 6 - 4.0 mm
870 yards (796 m)
width: 62 cm (24.5"), length(adj): 180 cm (71")
English
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In the Swedish medieval ballad Havsfrun, Herr Olof rides to the realm of the Sea Witch. She welcomes him and says she’s been waiting for him for 15 years. She asks where he is from and where his fields are, and his parents and his beloved. He answers they are all in the king’s realm. The Sea Witch then offers him the clearest wine from her jug and then asks all the same questions again. Herr Olof now answers that his fields and his home are here in the realm of the Sea Witch. She is his beloved and he would like to live and die with her.

The stole shows the flowing, swirling waters of the Sea Witch’s realm, and in the centre the waters separate to make way for her lands and fields.

Havsfrun is the first shawl in a set of three released as part of the Folk Song KAL by Knit & Knag Designs.