In many areas of the word we can get information of the art left as rock-carvings or petroglyphs. Sweden is rich with remains in some areas, and the designs have found their way into design and art.
They depict important matters like war and ships, but also animals such as elk and fish. When they were carved our landscape looked very different. Sweden is a country very much impacted by glacial erosion and impact of the last ice-age. As a matter of fact Sweden is still rising with as much as 9 mm per year. It is easy to see that the smooth rocks where the pictures had been carved where once very close to the sea.
In many cases they have been preserved by being covered by soil, and alas when we now uncover them some are threatened by erosion. I give you a few of these rock carvings I have photographed myself. either at Nämforsen or at Tanumshede, two of the most well known sites.
I would like for you to select from the pictures, and try to find a story from one or several. You could place yourself into the the image, you might want to imagine something that it depict or you might try to see it from the perspective of the carver. I would like you to view the prompt as wide-open.
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Happy Tuesday poets. I hope you can find stories in these carvings, very little is known about them, and we are allowed to find any story we want in these carvings…
Happy Tuesday to you, Bjorn….very nice prompt. Looking forward to reading…..
I though it was a while since we had a picture prompt.. 🙂
This made me read and imagine what it was like in those very early years of our ancestors ~
Thanks for the picture prompt Bjorn ~ Happy Tuesday to all ~
I loved that thought.. somehow life was hard, yet probably easier.. you can see that during bronze age the climate was quite warm in Scandinavia…
Picture prompts are cool, especially when there are several of them from which to choose. I went all modern on them, thinking of a harsh winter up north and longing to be warm again. These petroglyphs truly are beautiful. I am more acquainted with our American ones as they were what I studied in university – Anthropology and Archaeology, Indigenous People, esp. the Anasazi being my main focus. I was so intrigued with the carvings/paintings and how they told of the lives lived then.
They are truly intriguing.. I have seen petroglyphs in North America as well, but to some extent they are not as mysterious.. there are so many things still alive to learn from.. these carvings is almost all that is left…
and all of them in different areas threatened by erosion, pollution when uncovered. Beautiful and wild they are.
Bedtime here.. I will see what excellent poetry have crystallized while sleeping..
I do hope some more give it a try. It really is a very cool prompt…and so many options. I love picture prompts.
Great prompt at a time when it was needed. Thanks!
I think we all needed it 😉
Hey everyone,
I must say this was quite a challenging prompt! Couldn’t resist trying it out 🙂
Hope you guys like it 🙂
Thank you Bjorn for this lovely opportunity!
Lots of love,
Sanaa
I really enjoyed this!! Thank you, Bjorn for sharing your images and offering such a creative prompt!
I’m not playing today, but wanted to say how amazing those photos are! Makes me want to visit 🙂
Thank you, Mary, for linking me up again. 🙂 And thanks to Bjorn for sharing his intriguing photos with us. I would love to see these, or ones like them, some day. It’s amazing to me that they have survived as long as they have.
Um, I just realized, I don’t know who linked me up… 🙂
🙂
Oh…thanks. 🙂
I love this prompt! I spent half of my childhood with Marional Geographics on my lap. Unfortunately, it is hard for me to write during the work week. But I posted this last January, which could have been written in response to this prompt. Hope you enjoy it!
https://5h2o.wordpress.com/?s=gorham&submit=Search
I mean National Geographics. Urg! Autocorrect!!
Good Evening, I am a bit late but, I did find a story. I will be around more tomorrow to read as it is late here. Thanks for understanding. I will get to all your wonderful poems.
It would have been nice to get to yours since you are posting on this venue, for people who are members of this team and people who also post rather than to click on your link and find it is for invited persons only.
Truedessa, something has happened to your blog, it seems that permission has changed so we cannot access it.. I know it cannot be intentional…
What an intriguing prompt – and you left it so wide open, Bjorn. I’ve gone a bit enigmatic and interpreted one of the engravings as showing a sledge… you know me and my love for Northern climes… Probably completely off-course, but there is no right or wrong here, as so little seems to be known about these people.
You really tickled the anthropologist in me this time!
I think it might have been a sledge.. usually it has been interpreted as a boat, but I think boats could often become sledges in winter..
Very interesting carvings. I remember when I had visited Stockholm, out host had shown us the carving on a block of stone in the city area. It was amazing. Very intricate. These seem very well preserved.
Those might have been runes, a few of them in down-town Stockholm, but they are a few thousand years younger.
Oh ok. But fascinating, nonetheless….
Oh, dear. I’m afraid I haven’t written a poem at all, but a little fable of sorts. Well… I’m sure you’ll be able to take me off the Linky if my entry doesn’t qualify. Thanks Bjorn for the great prompt. I had good fun writing to it!
I look forward to read it ..
This is such an intelligent prompt but my brain just won’t connect to it. I am enjoying reading everyone’s work , but I don’t think I’ll be able to join in this one in time.
Pity. I was too late to join in. Here’s mine though. https://miskmask.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/parietal-art-for-dverse-poets/
Tonight it’s open link.. so there is a new opportunity to link up, 🙂
I’m looking forward to it
I’m glad you got it in Misky! I love it.
Once I was late and I got deleted from here haha
Oh dear! 😦
I meant to link to this site but OLN will do. Thanks for the inspiration as always.