Hattula's bird

The northern peoples developed a special relationship with waterfowl. For them, waterfowl symbolize fertility. For the people of Pohjola, the spring return of the birds was a promise of summer, the beginning of the new. With the return of waterfowl, it was known that nature would come back to life. Waterfowl had the magic of fertility. The subject of this bird is from Luurila in Hattula from the 11th century.