on Thora of the Embroidered Hand.
Some saga names just stand out, like Thora of the Embroidered Hand. While there's a twice-fold kidnapping of this girl in Egil's Saga and her marriage to her unstoppably amorous kidnapper-then-husband, Thora's name is never actually explained. Our NorsePlay on this could go one of three or two-fold, or three-fold ways which is in line with either a deed-name, or a descriptive name. [rune protection hand made by Frogs and Princes on Rebels Market.] If Thora performed embroidery at a remarkable level, making pieces of such exception that she earned a reputation for her handiwork, then it could go that way. Or second, maybe she'd received an outstanding jelling or exotic lace patterned Mehndi-style (the latter technique of which is dated back to the Vedas, so maybe it or its style migrated over) hand tattoo that augmented her already notable beauty as a factor which set her aside from all the other girls, making her even more kidnapping worthy. [Cosme...