Viking Axe for Achievement and Victory

The axe was a primary weapon, also used peaceably for ship–building, in crafts and in magic. In the Voluspa (The Sibyl’s Prophecy), a seeress tells Odin of an axe–age, a sword–age and a wolf–age that would all precede Ragnarok, the end of the Viking’s world . Odin's challenge was to delay reaching Ragnarok