Galway High Cross Tattoo Design norway tribute to the fighting monks

tribute to the fighting monks whose history is legend

or bracelet

and surrounded by an oval of timeless Celtic knotwork to make a half sleeve of great religious symbolism

The powerful alchemical symbol of the serpent eating its own tale is here rendered in intricate knot work and with the head of a Celtic beast from the 9th century Book of Kells

built of intersecting and carefully placed circles in a hexagonal pattern

Galway High Cross Tattoo Design norway tribute to the fighting monksDesigned using elements in the O'Connor high cross in the Ballinasloe graveyard in County Galway, Ireland, carved in the early 19th century by two generations of stonemasons in honor of their patriarch. Custom commission for his great great grandson.