Modern Art
Character: Tamsin
Once you really start researching, the incongruity cannot be unseen.
Tamsin finds the images of her kind in mortal artwork frankly hilarious.
The improbable armor. The shining raiment, the flowing hair. The wings, for love of everything truly holy. Perhaps worst of all the shining white horses, adorned with ridiculous wings as well.
the horse of Gunnr sees fodder on the battlefield where twenty kings lie, Tamsin chants softly, because these humans have forgotten their own lore. She remembers her own steed, black as night, fangs sharper than a well-honed spear.
Humans use art to disguise the truth. Tamsin recalls the taste of blood between her teeth, and understands why.
The Rök Stone (Sweden, dating to 835) uses "horse of Gunnr"-a valkyrie-as a kenning for wolves.