The
fatal raven, consecrated to Odin, the Danish war god, was the emblem on the Danish standard, Landeyda ( " desolation of the country " ), and was said to have been woven and embroidered in one noontide by the daughters of Regner Lodbrok, son of Sigurd, that dauntless warrior who chanted his death song (the Krakamal ) while being stung to death in a horrible pit filled with deadly serpents.
Taking note of Tamora's line, "Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds, unless the nightly owl or
fatal raven" director Lucy Bailey and designer William Dudley swathe the Globe's Elizabethan back wall and the two giant onstage pillars in black fabric.