I recently discovered that Fil’Anthrope has limited edition, subscription kits for various characters. You have to sign up for the kit for a limited period of time, for this kit from September 10 to October 23, 2020. This is a mystery kit where you get some information about the character and the kit and chart will be sent in parts in six parts until April 2021. The kit is quite expensive, but it includes everything you need to complete the design.
The previous designs have included Marie-Antoinette, Esmeralda from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, a Steampunk character and Cleopatra. I was drawn to this as it is a viking warrior, and there are quite few cross stitch charts available with Scandinavian, or more specifically Norwegian, imagery. There is a lot of “Nordic” cross stitch patterns, but these are most often samplers with simple designs which are more Swedish than Norwegian. As Fil’Anthrope is a French company I don’t expect it to be historically a
I enjoy both history and old mythology, but I had to look up who Lagertha is, as she is not a character I recognized from neither history nor mythology. Apparently, she is a legendary character, who was a shield-maiden, the ruler of Norway and married to Ragnar Lodbrok. Her story was recorded in the 12th century in the ninth book of “Gesta Danorum” by the Christian historian Saxo Grammaticus. Even though most of the characters in the story of Lagertha are assumed to be more or less historical characters who