I close this commemoration month with a post of thanks, and reflection.
To everyone who is following this blog, thank you for your support over the last year. I am infinitely grateful to you for bothering to go through the process of confirming your subscriptions in your emails, and thus giving me one more follower on this blog.
To everyone who has told others about this page, thank you very much for your approval of my content.
To everyone who has visited the pages, or read something of the epic poem, thank you for your kind attention.
Special thanks to Quiche for creating the Instagram page for this blog. Find us @queendom_of_the_crocus, or https://www.instagram.com/queendom_of_the_crocus/ if you’re on a computer.
Over the past year, I have written mostly about various historical and movie-artistic elements of Frozen. I have recently bought some books related to the Frozen franchise, and I hope to read them and find more interesting things to write about.
I have completed one half of my epic poem, The Saga of the Crocus. I have found little inspiration to write the next one, unfortunately. Perhaps it is because I know from the previous experience that basically no one will read it. But perhaps that just means I should do something else to get it noticed?
You may have noticed that the logo of this blog has been updated. It is a little bigger now, and a little more elaborate. Perhaps there will be a post about that in time, but the moon above takes precedence. And anyway, the three moons showcased during the commemoration month are in the logo, so I am explaining the logo as I go along 😛
This last moon is dedicated to Queen Iduna, though I consistently call her Iðunn, following the runes which mark her gravestone in Frozen.
May you ever shine on this blog.
If you haven’t seen the previous posts in this commemoration series, click here for the post on Frozen, and here for the post on Frozen II.
And if you’ve read all the way to here, thank you very much, and thank you very much once again for visiting my little blog.
The Design of the Moon
Iðunn’s people, the Northuldra (which I prefer to spell Northaldra/Norðaldra), say they are ‘the people of the Sun’. That explains the yellow background, the sun design behind Iðunn, and the sun in the blue ‘sky’ crescent with its 3 sunbeams. That, and also because she is the first Queen of Light in the movie’s lineage (check out the subtitle of this blog). This status is referenced indirectly in the Saga, Book I Chapter 6, and then directly in the Interlude.
By now you know that there is a rune in every moon, and this rune behind Iðunn is ᛋ, Sól, meaning ‘sun’ in Old Norse and Icelandic. Unlike Elsa’s and Anna’s runes, Sól does not have any relation to Iðunn’s name, but I think it’s fine. The movies are, after all, about Elsa and Anna, not their mother – though she certainly has an important role.
The five leaves in the moon are representative of the wind spirit, Gale. They were not initially arranged to surround Iðunn – as a matter of fact the moons were designed much before this month – but given that they do, it’s nice to see that the wind spirit has always been protecting her.
Some might also wonder – why is the dam in Iðunn’s moon? Wasn’t it a treachery against her and her people? True, but while the dam split the Northaldra from Arnadalr, it was also a bridge for Iðunn to meet Agnarr. Iðunn was the bridge between the Northaldra and Arnadalr, and that is why I chose to focus on the top part of the dam, the place which looks like a bridge.
Anna is like a light for Elsa and her people; while Elsa is Anna’s light (‘the only star that guided me [Anna] was you [Elsa]’). But in truth, there is an unseen light that sees them both.
I admit that I have lost my fire for Frozen. I lost that fire around 9 months after Frozen, after listening to Frozen songs in too many languages; I lost that same fire around 6 months after Frozen II, after far fewer songs and completing Book I of the Saga.
But I am still looking forward to great things for Anna and Elsa.
And for this blog.
Would you consider coming with me for another year?
Image of Iðunn taken from https://www.deviantart.com/blueappleheart89/art/the-Art-of-Frozen-2-Sneak-Peak-Queen-Induna-817604980
The moon background is my own design.
Queendom of the Crocus 
Recent follower, but retroactively discovering good content! 🙂
I’d actually be surprised if most could maintain the fire for Frozen 1 and 2 after 2019. They’re not putting out enough new content. In today’s world a month is enough time for people to forget about a show’s new season or a new movie.
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Thank you so much. This comment means a lot to me. It was a surprise when I realised that I would soon be completing 1 year of blogging, and the commemoration month was as much an excuse to make new content as a motivator to keep the blog alive.
I can’t guarantee that I will always have content (even bad content) to deliver, but I will do my best.
This comment is a light to me in despondent times. Thank you once again.
Am I crying?…
Maybe
Almost
Inside I am
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Oh, one more thing: forget about fanfiction, I bet it’s even harder to promote a poem in the online world; and an epic poem in the style and structure of The Saga of the Crocus? I say “I bet” just because I’ve never tried sharing a poem on my social media, but I have a feeling that it would be.
Perhaps sharing excerpts of your epic poem, along with some visuals taken from the movie, might attract more true aficionados to the poem webpage (with including a link).
The AG
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That IS a strategy I could think about 8)
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