Heavy timber gate in a snow-covered fence, closed, with a track leading to it

the gate of the north

Pohjola is a place you arrive at and must be let into. The negotiations at the gate — for a bride, for a mill, for passage — are the engine of the whole cycle.

Basis: The Pohjola material in the songs · AI-generated

More of this creature

Long wooden table in a dim log hall, set with plain bowls, benches empty

the long table →

Low opening in a granite hillside, closed with a timber door and iron hasp

the mill in the rock →