Norse Illustrations: Free to Use with Credit
The line drawings in the VikingsBrand Library are our own work. They were drawn for our Norse mythology book, one illustration per figure: the gods, the creatures, the world-tree, the staves, and all twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark.
They are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. That means you may use them, including commercially, and you may adapt them, as long as you credit us and link back.
What you may do
- Use them on a blog, in a video, in a presentation or in teaching material.
- Print them, put them in a zine, a handout or a book.
- Change them: recolour, crop, redraw, use a detail.
- Use them commercially.
What we ask
One line of credit with a working link. Copy this:
Illustration by VikingsBrand, CC BY 4.0 — https://vikingsbrand.co/pages/library
If you adapted the drawing, please say so, for example "adapted from an illustration by VikingsBrand, CC BY 4.0". That is all the licence requires, and it is all we want.
Why we do this
Most Norse symbols online are traced from each other, and most of the pages that use them cannot say where the symbol comes from. We drew ours ourselves so that we could give them away, and we write each Library entry with its primary source and manuscript so that anyone using the picture can also check the claim behind it.
If a drawing is useful to you, take it. A link back is enough.
Where to find them
Every drawing sits on its entry in the Library, alongside the source it illustrates. Right-click to save, or ask us at contact if you need a larger file or a transparent version for print.