The Kattegat Ghost Figurine - Saeulfr

Saeulfr is a handmade collectable Ghost figurine, individually poured and engraved by The Nordic Ghost Merchants in Denmark.

The Kattegat is not a kind sea. It is the strait between Denmark and Sweden where the North Sea meets the Baltic. It's a place of cold currents and old memories. Fishermen who worked these waters did not speak of what they saw beneath the surface. They did not need to. The sea remembers on their behalf.  

The Kattegat Ghosts carry that water in them. Each one formed in the colours of an untamed Scandinavian sea; pale fog, dark storms and the blue-grey of a sky that hasn't seen the sun in weeks. They arrived without warning. They may not stay.

Old sailors of the Kattegat spoke of Saeulfr only when the water was calm.

They said he travelled beyond the harbour lights, where the sea darkened and the shore disappeared, keeping pace with ships through fog and winter swell.

A glimpse of him beside the vessel was considered a warning that deeper water lay ahead.

But if Saeulfr remained until dawn, the crew believed they would see land again.

No one ever claimed to know where he went afterward.

Saeulfr the ghost figurine stands at just short of 8 cm.