Tagebuch - ONE

Very old drawing in my sort of diary.
Got inspired by a passage in Margaret Elphinstone's wonderful "Vinland Saga". The text's on the left, though in German (see below for English translation).

The story is mostly based on both Vínlandsögur: Eiríks saga ins rauða and Grænlendinga saga.

The painting shows how Thorvald is wounded by an arrow, when the Skrælingar (Native Americans) appear for the second time and drive the northmen away:

Then asked Thorvald his men, if they were anyhow wounded. They answered not to be wounded.
I have got a wound under the arm, says he, and flew an arrow between the shipside and the shield under my arm; and here is the arrow, and may me this to death lead. Now I advise that you prepare to go as soon as possible back, but you shall bring me to that headland, which I thought most habitable to be, may be, that a true word came of my mouth, that I might dwell there for a while. There you shall bury me and set a cross at my head and at my feet, and call it Krossaness for ever after. [...]


Ink, calligraphic pen, watercolor and some Photoshop.