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Valheim is an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. [1] It was released in early access on 2 February 2021 for Linux and Windows via Steam , and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 14 March 2023.
The cap has holes for the ears of the pony; [9] the angle at which the cap is currently displayed, as in the photo here, is designed to show the decoration clearly, and corresponds to that the cap would have had with the horse bowing its head. The photos on the museum website show the normal angle when worn better, with the edges on the sides ...
According to the Alexander Romance (1.15), the name "Bucephalus" literally means "ox-headed" (from βοῦς and κεφᾰλή), and supposedly comes from a brand (or scar) on the thigh of the horse that looked like an ox's head.
The horse is also present in artistic representations from the periods of Nordic mythology. During the Bronze Age, a Swedish rock engraving shows a figure whose phallus ends in a horse's head; [58] it could be dedicated to Odin or Freyr and constitutes the earliest known attestation of the fertility cult in these regions. [59]
Still Water is a large public sculpture in bronze of a horse's head by Nic Fiddian-Green, dating to 2011. It is located at Achilles Way, near Hyde Park Corner in central London, and was initially installed at Marble Arch. The work remains owned by the artist, and is on loan to Westminster City Council.
Head of the horse of Selene, which inspired Fiddian-Green, with the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. Born in Ireland, [3] Fiddian-Green was educated at Eton College.Later, as a foundation-course student at Chelsea College of Arts he was sent on a visit to the British Museum to seek inspiration, [2] and chanced upon a carving of horse's head, the horse of Selene, [4] in the Elgin Marbles ...
The horses are presented with a raised front leg, which suggests a walking motion. The figures of a triton and a nereid , alongside seahorses and dolphins, adorn each pectoral plate. The harnesses are enriched by metal phaleras on which images of various gods are placed to protect the steed and its owner, including Jupiter , Venus , Mars , Juno ...
The horse shared in the God's essence. This led to the kenning askr Yggdrasills, literally: 'the ash tree of Odin-horse', but by the conventions of Old Norse poetry: 'the warrior of Odin-horse', i.e. 'Odin'. Yggdrasill fell out of use as the name of Odin's horse, leaving the formula askr Yggdrasills obscure. It was reinterpreted to refer to the ...