The Kattegat Ghost Figurine - Svalbardi

Svalbardi 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.

Svalbardi is said to appear when the sea turns the colour of old steel and the horizon disappears beneath low cloud.

Old accounts place him far from sheltered harbours, drifting quietly beside vessels bound northward. Sailors believed his presence meant colder waters lay ahead, and that the sea should be watched carefully through the coming night.

He was never considered an omen of misfortune.

Only a reminder that the northern sea keeps its own counsel.

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