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My little finding outside the movies - "Kingdom of Vesterland" ❄️

My seventh finding is how many appearances of Kingdom of Vesterland in various books 😄 King Jonas of Vesterland and his daughter, Princess Mari, were introduced in the Dark Horse comics. However, I had already read the novels before reading the comics, particularly the novel "Polar Nights" where Vesterland played an important role in it. So, it was a surprise to realize that they had already appeared in the comics. And I find it lovely to know that Arendelle has such a charming neighborhood kingdom 💙

Polar Nights: Cast Into Darkness (Pg. 11)

2. "Engaging Anna and Kristoff" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology (Pg. 58)

3. "A Midsummer’s Song and Dance" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology (Pg. 135)

4. Lost Legend: The Fixer Upper (Pg. 82) - only mentioned

5. Disney Frozen: Breaking Boundaries (Pg. 25, 13, 20) - Kingdom of Vesterland, King Jonas and Princess Mari were introduced in this comic.

6. Disney Frozen: Reunion Road (Pg. 13)

7. Disney Frozen: The Hero Within (Pg. 47)

8. Disney Frozen: True Treasure (Pg. 12)

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Translating the Runes in Secrets of the Magic Makers

Ok, so I already said in my previous post (X) that I love Secrets of the Magic Makers and the runic writing in Frozen in general, but now I’m going to actually talk about the translations of the runes.

Most* of the runes shown in Frozen movies and shorts are historically accurate and translatable. They are Younger Futhark runes, used in Nordic regions beginning around the 9th century. The Younger Futhark alphabet has 16 runes and is a simplification of the Elder Futhark, which had 24 originally. The Younger Futhark alphabet was used throughout Scandinavia in the Viking Age and declined after Catholicism was introduced. (Source: Runes Illustrated by Rachel Newcombe)

* I say most because the runes in Olaf’s Frozen Adventure on the bell are not historically accurate. They are simply a direct English transliteration of the words “Ring in the Season”

Disney worked with Old Norse language expert Jackson Crawford (you can find his YT channel here (X)) to ensure that the runes in F1 are historically accurate.

Ok, history lesson over, let’s actually talk about how these runes are relevant to the Frozen story.

I did not translate these myself, although I have kind of taught myself how to now. These translations come from Panya on this website. If you are interested in the detailed translations, I would highly recommend checking it out, as it is truly fascinating!

Here is the cover of the book. It translates roughly to Runes of Knowledge, but I believe this book to also be Secrets of the Magic Makers (see my previous post for full explanation).

The inside of the book is 9 lines of text, repeated twice. It appears to say something like

Someone (subject is unclear) was turned to stone (ice?) by the power of the moon. The trolls from the dark mountain realm have healing hands. A soul wounded from cold will heal if brought very quickly to the field of them (the trolls). Trolls have such a nature that they can get sorcery out of the body to save it. Such action done in true love is the only one which can thaw a heart stoned (frozen?) very quickly.

It isn't exactly clear or easy to read, but I think that it tells the story of an ancient Arendellian (possibly Aren, but that’s mostly just a headcanon) whose heart was frozen by some power of the moon. It goes on to say that trolls have the power to remove magic, but that the only way to thaw a frozen heart is an act of true love.

This is VERY interesting as it implies that someone in the ancient past had a frozen heart. It could just be an old story, something that never actually happened. I personally don’t believe there was ever a single person who was the fifth spirit before Elsa and by extension no human who ever wielded ice powers like hers before. Another option is perhaps whoever it was that angered the spirits in some way or ventured too far into Ahtohallan and began to freeze? Or it could be a figurative frozen heart in the sense of a lack of love and compassion. I suppose only Ahtohallan knows this answer.

The other thing that makes this interesting is that it directly says that an act of true love will thaw a frozen heart. Which means that the answer was right there all along. The entire message of love will thaw was summed up here in runes at the very beginning of the movie. This also means that this was part of an Arendellian myth or story at some point and has been forgotten by the time Elsa is born.

So yeah, not really a big revelation or anything, but it is certainly interesting. I would love to know more details about this story and its origin, but again, only Ahtohallan knows. Overall I do think it's fascinating, as it gives us more information about Ancient Arendellian beliefs and traditions that still hold relevance in the time Frozen is actually set. As someone who is OBSESSED with the ancient myths and stories of Arendelle and the surrounding areas, this is so so intriguing to me and I absolutely love it!

#frozen #frozen 2 #frozen analysis #arendelle history #frozen lore #futhark #futhark runes #younger futhark #jackson crawford

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"Just when you weren't looking" was the first appearance of brothers Bjarne and Bjørn and they are among the most featured side characters in the entire Frozen franchise! What's better is that they both have strong personalities which are always portrayed accurately.

They are featured in everything ranging from Frozen magazine comics, the Dark horse comics and in the official novels, something which characters originating in comic books NEVER seem to do, so someone in the editing department surely likes them!

8. Disney Frozen: True Treasure

9. "Anna's day off" in Frozen: The Official Magazine

My little finding outside the movies - "Waffle Brothers Bakery" ❄️

My sixth finding is how many appearances of Waffle Brothers Bakery in various books 😄 It was owned by the brothers Bjarne and Bjørn who were always quarrel for everything. As I've found this bakery's having lots of appearances compared with other bakeries (excluded Blodget's Bakery 😂)

"Engaging Anna and Kristoff" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology (Pg. 68)

2. "Coronation Day" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology (Pg. 365)

3. Polar Nights: Cast Into Darkness (Pg. 50)

4. Lost Legend: The Fixer Upper (Pg. 72)

5. Disney Frozen: Breaking Boundaries (Pg. 32)

And the brothers were appeared in various comics:

6. "Just when you weren’t looking" in Frozen Adventure: Ice and Magic (Pg. 203)

7. Disney Frozen: The Hero Within (Pg. 47)

#snowflaketale #snowflaketale's little finding #disney frozen #frozen #frozen 2 #frozen comics #frozen books #frozen novels #bjarne and bjorn #the waffle brothers #frozen characters #frozen lore #arendelle kingdom

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The Southern Isles

(fanmade for fanfic, creative math with counting the rocks)

According to "A Frozen Heart", there are seven Isles. According to "Frozen Fever", a map looks like this, so I though - ok, it only counts as an isle if it is big enough/inhabitated/not connected by a bridge with another isle/whatever some of the kings said.

Also according to "A Frozen Heart", only the biggest Isle have any grass - the rest is rocky. Hence coloring.

As per a castle - the royal castle is, to be honest, only this part right next to the text. The rest, the part looking like a sea monster indeed, are defence walls. They can be, truly, very long. Only four, large windows are unusual, but hey, it's your castle. Also they are not exactly facing North, but close enough to be accurate.

The Brotherhood of the Isles is mysterious, I think it was meant to be some kind of religious order.

All the names are made up by me.

#frozen #frozen fever #a frozen heart #elizabeth rudnick #westergaard #the southern isles #fantasy map #disney frozen #hans of the southern isles #prince hans #hans westergaard #frozen fanart #frozen geography

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"Always Together"

Olaf is missing Elsa, Anna admits that she misses Elsa too. Meanwhile Elsa and Bruni (in female form this time) miss Anna and Olaf.

They try to cheer themselves up by doing things that the sisters did together back then but it doesn't help much. Anna and Olaf decide to write a letter to Elsa but before they do, Anna gets a letter via Galemail from Elsa. It says "Beloved, I miss you so much that tomorrow I am coming to Arendelle. Yours Elsa."

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My little finding outside the movies - "Helga" ❄️

My fifth finding is how many characters with the name "Helga" in books😄My last finding was about Lars, now I've found the Prince Lars' wife, Helga, is also a common name in Frozenverse 😂

A Frozen Heart - Princess Helga of Southern Isles, who's married to Prince Lars (Pg. 40)

2. "The Next Right Things" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology - The same Princess Helga from A Frozen Heart (Pg. 322)

3. Lost Legend: The Fixer Upper - Oaken's wife (Pg. 99)

4. Polar Nights: Cast Into Darkness - Helga from Vesterland, castle steward who was looking after Princess Sissel and Inger (Pg. 202)

5. Disney Frozen: Breaking Boundaries - Mr. Aldring’s late wife (Pg. 7)

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My little finding outside the movies - "Avalanche" ❄️

My third finding is how many times avalanche was happened and/or mentioned in books😄(As I've found there's too many times avalanche happened in the book but there's none in the movie😂)

Journey to the Lights (Pg. 132)

2. The Hero Within (Pg. 54)

3. The same Villmark aka Forbidden Land was mentioned in Lost Legends: The Fixer Upper (Pg. 160)

4. Anna & Elsa #6: The Arendelle Cup (Pg. 85)

5. The same story "The Arendelle Cup" is in comic Disney Frozen Adventures: Snowy Stories (Pg. 183)

6. "Travel Arendelle" in comic Disney Frozen Adventures: Snowy Stories (Pg. 92)

7. "The King of Hugs" in comic Disney Frozen Adventures: Snowy Stories (Pg. 232)

8. "The Beast on the Bluff" is in comic Disney Frozen Adventures: Flurries and Fun (Pg. 142)

9. "A Tough Delivery" is in comic Disney Frozen Adventures: Flurries and Fun (Pg. 234)

10. Conceal, Don't Feel, only mentioned but not happened (Pg. 249)

11. Forest of Shadows (Pg. 206)

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My little finding outside the movies - "Lars" ❄️

My forth finding is how many characters with the name "Lars" in books😄I believe most of the people know the Prince Lars of Southern Isles who's having his first appearance in "A Frozen Heart", but not only this Lars, I've found it's fun when there's lots of Lars in Frozenverse, it makes me wondering is it a common baby name in Arendelle😂

A Frozen Heart - Prince Lars of Southern Isles (Pg. 38)

2. "The Next Right Things" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology - The same Prince Lars from A Frozen Heart (Pg. 322)

3. "Wandering Oaken and the Not-So-Hygge-Day" in All Is Found: A Frozen Anthology - Oaken's cousin (only mentioned) (Pg. 216)

4. Lost Legend: The Fixer Upper - An Arendelle citizen (Pg. 54)

5. Disney Frozen: Breaking Boundaries - Ice harvester and thief Lars (Pg. 58)

6. Anna & Elsa #4: The Great Ice Engine - A mouse Lars who runs Oaken's ice engine (Pg. 35)

7. Anna & Elsa #9: Anna Takes Charge - An Arendelle kid (Pg. 25)

8. The same story "The Seed-Off Contest" is in Disney Frozen Adventures: Ice and Magic (Pg. 42)

9. "The Biggest Treasure" in Disney Frozen Adventures: Snowy Stories - A Southern Isles kid (Pg. 44)

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Frozen Through the Years

Yearly Spotlight: 2013 (Part 1)

This year it all started - the official release of Disney’s Frozen! So began the journey...

What is now a global hit, started off as something of a mystery not only for the audience, but for the creators as well. It's production history is long, taking up the better part of a century. Disney was gunning to adapt Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale “The Snow Queen" into animation. Walt himself dreamed of it! However, quite unfortunately, the technology did not exist at the time and would not come into existence until long after after Walt’s passing. But dreams have a way of coming true... the first teaser trailer for Frozen was released in 2013, and quite interestingly for audiences everywhere, the trailer gave almost no clue as to what the plot of Frozen was actually about...

To be Continued

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10-year-old mystery finally solved

One of the biggest riddles of Disney Frozen is how the choir gets up to the gallery. Nowhere in the movie is an entrance to the gallery or an access of any kind to be seen. All we see during Elsa's coronation scene is a completely open construction of the chapel, but there are twelve singers above the altar. How do they get there? Many fans have wondered how this is possible for ten years of Frozen's existence and everyone has puzzled over it. Even in books and comics, not a single clue is given and, stupidly, nowhere can you see the back of the chapel, i.e. from the west. Not even in Mindcraft designs is this side more clearly visible, which proves that the fans have no idea. However, there is Disney concept art and two, almost identical books about Arendelle Castle. The latter is clearly intended for children, but even there you can see the beginnings of a solution to the problem.

I myself was at a loss until yesterday, when I suddenly realised something while downloading screenshots and concept art. And tada!, suddenly everything was completely simple and logical. I could hardly believe it. You're probably asking yourselves now, "So how does that work? I don't believe anything without proof!" No problem. Let's go!

But first I'd like to show you my initial approach - until it turned out to be rubbish and couldn't work at all because of the open construction, no matter how you twist and turn it. Maybe you've already got there yourself.

Then I looked at the concept art of the chapel from the outside and the floor plan. Suddenly everything was clear to me and it made perfect sense. The only thing that didn't quite fit is the illustration in the book "All Around Arendelle" and the almost identical book "A Frozen World". There, the lower windows of the chapel are not shown, which can be seen in the concept art and round off the picture - also to the original model, St Olaf Church! But hey, it's a children's book and, in my opinion, the only incorrect depiction of the actual situation.

Here is the final proof:

Some side thoughts:

it makes no sense whatsoever to see a ladder or stairs in the church. It also makes no sense for something like this to be brought in from outside before every service.

a permanently installed staircase, but invisible to churchgoers, makes much more sense. But it must be easily accessible for the choir singers who a) want to rehearse independently of church services and b) do not enter the chapel at the same time as churchgoers. They arrive in their everyday clothes perhaps half an hour early and only need to put on their robes, which are c) always ready for them in a locked room behind the altar.

The entrance is well hidden behind the altar screen, and it is very likely that this door is even wallpapered in the style of the immediate surroundings, so it can withstand a casual glance from a curious person. In the room behind it, there is either a ladder to the gallery or - more likely - a permanently installed, narrow staircase leading to a hatch in the gallery. The singers' robes are always hanging ready for changing and the hatch at the top is there so that none of the singers accidentally tumble down the steps when closed. The stained glass windows around the small room also let in enough light for the singers to get changed in daylight without being seen, to talk face to face before the service and to get into the right mood with the coloured light from this type of window. There is another good reason for having a room separate from the church. The pastor or bishop can prepare there in peace, store things for the sermon and talk to the choristers undisturbed. I'm sure there are other reasons for such a room that I just can't think of right now, but you can certainly think of them yourselves.

This is how it would look like if the tapestry wall wouldn't be there:

PS: the only thing I haven't been able to solve yet is how to get up into the bell tower. There is a staircase that leads nowhere and no rope to ring the bell. Very strange… But on the real model, St Olaf's Church in Norway, you can see a ladder leading up to the bell tower.

Credits to: Art of Animation for the concept art images, and to GETTY images, David Nikel (for Forbes), Visitnorway.com for the images of St. Olaf Church in Balestrand, Norway.

Here are a few more pictures of St Olaf's Church in Balestrand, Norway, for those of you who are interested:

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A perfect night by Mari Mancusi - 3 year(ish) anniversary!

Oops! Looks like I had a slight calendar-malfunction 😆

The Agduna (Agnarr x Iduna) centered short story "A perfect night" was released for free by Mari on February 10th, 2021 on nerdist.com and this was the 1-year-anniversary edition I put together in 2022!

Some of the illustrations/screencaps were provided by the fantastic @shade74

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Arendelle's family tree!🌳

By: @virtual-winter February 4th, 2024

(full quality version)

It's finished! The newest addition to the Archives. With this family tree, I've tried to tie together all characters mentioned throughout the franchise that have family ties with Anna and Elsa or their parents. And there are quite a lot of them! If you happen to find this interesting and want to know more about the individual characters or how I came to some conclusions, I strongly recommend that you also read my previous work Anna and Elsa's lost family members!

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Anna and Elsa's lost family members

Written by: @virtual-winter Reviewed by: @bigfrozenfan October 8, 2023 First edition

The world of Frozen is surprisingly rich with characters, events and places. Thing is though, most of them are introduced outside of the movies and short films and a lot of fans probably don’t even know they exist. In this project which I created last year, I set my focus on uncovering Anna and Elsa’s lost relatives!

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Thank you for the added information!

Written by: @virtual-winter June 7th, 2023

The title kinda says it all. This was a quick analysis I made covering the very niche topic of Prince Hans' ship. I found it has a much stronger presence in the franchise than you might think!

For a long time, I only had a single piece of concept art by Cory Loftis to go on but after finding the profile view in this post's title, I started looking for it in the movies. And it was there alright!

I owe great thanks to the fantastic blog @theartoffrozen (that collects amazing Frozen concept art) for being the source of many of the pics for this analysis!

So, here is my walk-trough of every appearance of Hans' ship!

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Written by: @virtual-winter June 7th, 2023

The title kinda says it all. This was a quick analysis I made covering the very niche topic of Prince Hans' ship. I found it has a much stronger presence in the franchise than you might think!

For a long time, I only had a single piece of concept art by Cory Loftis to go on but after finding the profile view in this post's title, I started looking for it in the movies. And it was there alright!

I owe great thanks to the fantastic blog @theartoffrozen (that collects amazing Frozen concept art) for being the source of many of the pics for this analysis!

So, here is my walk-trough of every appearance of Hans' ship!

/virtual-winter

#frozen #frozen 2 #frozen fandom #arendelle archives #frozen analysis #arendelle #the southern isles #frozen 10th anniversary #frozen 10 #prince hans #hans westergaard #frozen ship #schooner #frozen concept art #frozen fever #olaf's frozen adventure

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The Frozenverse - A list of books, comics and more!

Written by: @virtual-winter Reviewed by: @bigfrozenfan & @yumeka-sxf August 14th, 2022 First edition

This was the first collaboration project for Arendelle Archives, where a project was reviewed by one or more members before its release. With this project, we aimed to list every known (to us) Frozen title out there. As of 2024, a few more titles have of course appeared like the novels All is found and The fixer upper but see this as a close-to-complete list of titles spanning from 2013 to late 2022!

Prepare for a long read as this list covers well over 300 unique titles over 53 pages, including everything from the movies and novels to chapter books and one-page comics.

We hope you will enjoy this journey into The Frozenverse!

/virtual-winter

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(please note that the Discord-links provided in the document may not be up to date anymore😉)

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This was my very first Frozen analysis-project, completed in August 2021. Yumeka kindly updated the original post with a refreshed version that has some corrections and new pics taken by me during my Norway trip in 2023!

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An Odyssey Through Frozen Geography

Another amazing Frozen fanwork has come to my attention! An Odyssey Through Frozen Geography, written by ImWaitingForWinter, chronicles the geography of the Frozen universe using the various maps and other sources we’ve gotten within the franchise, and ties them back to real-world locations. Like Annals of Frozen which I posted about recently, this digital book was a huge labor of love, and ImWaitingForWinter did a fantastic job of shining more light on the Frozen lore!

Here are some excerpts:

*You can read the full 39-page book here*

There’s quite an interesting discovery that’s made at the end when examining Iduna’s map from Frozen 2. I won’t spoil it here, but definitely give the book a read and find out. Lots of work and research went into it and I know I learned something new!

#frozen #frozen 2 #frozen fever #olaf's frozen adventure #disney frozen #frozen analysis #arendelle archives #kingdom of arendelle #frozen geography