Dragons and serpents symbolize the elemental energies of earth, air, fire, and water. Dragons are powerful and wise creatures who carry the secrets of the universe and act as the gatekeepers to other worlds and dimensions.

In Shakespeare’s England, the Vikings were taken up as violent catalysts in the early story of the kingdom’s greatness. Rediscovered during the Enlightenment as a sort of ‘noble savage’, the figure of the Viking was enthusiastically adopted by the nationalist Romantics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Searching for their own emerging