65% Superwash Merino 20% Silk 15%Yak

480 meters per 120 gram skein

A soft and delicious singles yarn. The yarn is a light grey when undyed so all colours looks a bit different on this base. Perfect for shawls and soft garments with a lot of drape.

Mirkwood is an anglicised version of the norse word Myrkvidr first used by Sir Walter Scott and later made more well known by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The words meaning is black or dark forest and it is mentioned in several norse sources including multiple places in the Poetic Edda and several other sources

In Volundkvida Volund  and his two brothers meet three swan maidens by the shore of a forest lake and they become three couples living together for nine winters before the maidens turns back into swans and fly away

Maids from the south

through Myrkwood flew,

Fair and young,

their fate to follow;

On the shore of the sea

to rest them they sat,

The maids of the south,

and flax they spun

Volundkvadet (The lay of Volound) Stanza 1

This is a lovely medium forest green.