- A review from Humptata （amazon。de）， translated from German。 -The presentation of the divination cards - because it is not a tarot in the classical sense - is very noble。 They come in a sturdy folding box with magnetic closure， lifting straps and a thick booklet。 Everything is in black and white， which looks very appealing at first glance， including the cards。 The card paper could be thicker to my taste， but this is a common problem since most publishers have printed their cards in China。 After - A review from Humptata （amazon。de）， translated from German。 -The presentation of the divination cards - because it is not a tarot in the classical sense - is very noble。 They come in a sturdy folding box with magnetic closure， lifting straps and a thick booklet。 Everything is in black and white， which looks very appealing at first glance， including the cards。 The card paper could be thicker to my taste， but this is a common problem since most publishers have printed their cards in China。 After all， the cards are larger in size than regular tarot cards， and the illustrations are very clear and recognizable。 However， the illustrations are also exactly the biggest problem with this deck。 From the beginning， I had a strange feeling with these pictures。 At first， I thought this was due to the black/white optics or lack of color。 Then I realized that it is less that， but rather the inconsistency of style。 For example， the gods， which can also be seen in the Amazon preview， are actually quite uniform in style and also visually quite appealing。 Oddly enough， only Sif， in contrast to the other gods， is not rather “traditional”， but rather very abstract and is already depicted in the direction of symbolistic paintings。 I didn't think anything。 But then there are even more stylistically strange maps - Ganglöt and Ganglati， for example， which look more like from surrealist paintings of the 20th century than from the Nordic world of gods。 Perhaps one reason for this stylistic ambivalence， I thought， would be that the author created the deck together with his daughter and perhaps two artists' manuscripts emerge here。 But then I found a number of pictures one after the other， in which simply had been brazenly stolen from classical masterpieces。 For example， the Jörmungandr from the map with Thor and the Midgard snake comes from a 1913 painting by the English painter Arthur Rackham， titled “The Leviathan”。 All right， Leviathan and Midgard snake are thrown into a pot more often， but the brazen pictorial decay is alienating。 On another map， the female side figure from Gustave Moreau's painting “Salome dances before Herod” from 1876 - a picture with a biblical， Christian theme。 Stealing from it for a pagan， Nordic deck， whose author also claims to be a believing supporter of the Nordic pantheon - can't be done at all。 Apart from that， I would have expected an Icelandic to deal with the issue more respectfully。 You almost wonder if the Icelandic name is real and not any American behind it again （Edit: Googled， and the Icelandic is not only real but also active member of the Icelandic Asatrú community。 So the whole will be even three hundred times more embarrassing）。 And so it continues vivably through the history of art， you will find offset pieces from various known and unknown paintings， drawings and illustrations。 It's not forbidden to get inspiration or anything。 But here are really 1:1 images copied， so that at the end you get the impression that nothing would have been drawn there， but simply copied from different sources and then put a uniform filter over it at the end with the computer。 Also in the booklet you find no information about possible sources， or any statement about how the creation process of State went。 It gives the （wrong） impression that the authors had designed and drawn everything here themselves。 With all love， but that's not how it works。 In this respect， I did not even deal with the oracle possibilities of this deck。 If I had not received it from the publisher - I certainly would not have bought it after the first review。 2 stars for the beautiful design and the idea to present everything in black and white。 This could have been a hell of a deck。 Unfortunately， it is only brazen pictorial despicable with little content。 。。。more