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The parable, and a note about itTwo wolves fight inside you, one destructive and one good, and the one that wins is the one you feed. It is repeated constantly, usually credited to Cherokee tradition and told as an old grandfather's teaching.The attribution does...

You already say their names every weekThe Norse gods did not entirely disappear when Christianity arrived. They went into the calendar, and English speakers have been repeating them ever since.Tuesday is Tiw's day, the Anglo-Saxon form of Tyr, the god who lost his hand...

The sources were written by the victimsThe Vikings did not write much down. Almost everything said about them at the time was written by literate monks in monasteries, which is to say by the people they were robbing.You would not take a burglar's character...

No wolf was involvedWorth being direct about it, since this is one of the few pieces where people wonder. The fang is stainless steel with a gold coating, set into a silver-toned cap worked with a dark flame pattern. It is a representation, not...

The smallest one we sell4.5 x 5.7 cm, about the size of a large postage stamp, which puts it in a category of its own.At this size the placements open right up: behind an ear, inside a wrist, on a collarbone, at the nape...

Aged deliberatelyA single wolf head takes up the whole top of the ring, angled so the muzzle runs down across the band, ears pricked and the teeth showing along the jaw. The finish is darkened in the recesses rather than polished uniformly bright. That...

A sky that runs to the cuffs Deep teal space covers this shirt edge to edge, across the body and out along the sleeves, with no plain panel left anywhere. Three wolves climb a diagonal through the nebula with their muzzles raised, and a...

Copper and verdigris, not snowAlmost every wolf textile defaults to winter: white ground, blue shadows, cold light. This one does not, and that changes which rooms it suits.The wolf is pale cream, but everything behind it is weathered copper: rust orange shot through with...

Black fur reached North American wolves from an unexpected direction. The variant responsible passed from early domestic dogs into wild packs thousands of years ago, and it took hold most strongly in forested country, where a dark coat suits timber and shadow. A head...

Origami works to one rule: a single square of paper, folded, never cut. Whatever the finished animal owns, its ears, its jaw, its raised throat, has to be found inside that one sheet. This howling wolf head borrows the look of that result, a...

Three wolves stand with their muzzles tipped to the sky, cut as clean silhouettes into a slab of pink silicone. The largest fills the upper half, chest forward, tail low, head thrown right back in a howl. Two smaller wolves stand below it in...

Snorri Sturluson names the wolf that chases the moon. In the Prose Edda, Skoll follows the sun across the sky while Hati Hrodvitnisson runs out ahead of her and hunts the moon instead, and the two are still running when the world ends. It...

A ring hangs loose in this wolf's jaws, held the way a knocker hangs from a lion's mouth on an old hall door. Behind the face the mane is worked into a crown of pointed spikes that spread and curve back, closing a rough...

Coins have carried house marks for as long as houses have had them, and this round charm borrows the habit outright. A direwolf head fills the upper field in raised relief, mane swept back in layered points, jaws open toward the edge, while a...

A face made to be read Wolves are unusually good at reading one another. Pale fur around the muzzle and eyes makes the direction of a gaze easy to follow across a clearing, which is why a wolf's face carries so much meaning to...