From: Justin <craigon@DATACOMM.IUE.IT>
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| There's been some talk about the tattoo Bjork has on her left arm, and
| it's been said that it was a "viking-compass" or at least a symbol from
| the viking-ages.
| Recently I asked the viking- and middle-ages department on the university
| of Aarhus, about this symbol. I was told that this symbol is definitely
| not from the viking-ages, and that it's not the style of that period.
|
| So if they're right, then where is it from? Maybe it was made by this
| pagan-society that still exist on Iceland? Or some "magic" society of some
| kind?
|
| In an interview Bjork said the tattoo was a pagan (I think) rune,
| used by the norse tribes to find their way home.  They would paint it
| on their heads to help them get home...  Hers is not a geographical
| getting home but a spiritual one I think..  That was the gist of the
| interview anyway..
|
| Jut
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From: "SCOTT G. HOOKWAY" <ssssssss@STUDENT.GU.EDU.AU>
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| And I quote from Rolling Stone Magazine (Australia) July '95-
|
| On her upper left arm sits the tattoo of a Viking compass.  "It's so I
| don't get lost," she says coquettishly.  "If the Vikings had bad weather
| or fog, they used to draw it on their foreheads with a piece of coal.  I
| thought that was a bit much, so I put it there"
|
| There we go, the mystery is finally solved by Bjork herself.
|
| Scott
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