Kyleah, it does indeed resemble carvings of ships I have seen on runestones. But regardless, it is a very lovely work!

BTW,I recently read on a list outside of Ancient Worlds that much of what we think of as Celtic art is actually Germanic. The person that posted it without references (I really wished he had given some), stated that it was the Anglo-Saxons that initially taught the Irish how to do the intertwining vines, snakes, seen so often in both Germanic and Celtic art. The Irish in turn taught the Anglo-Saxons how to do triskelon, and other native Celtic designs. This Germanic element in Celtic art was reenforced by the Vikings invasions of Ireland. My question for folks that know much more about art than I do, is there any truth to this? I can look and see that Celtic and Germanic art is similar, but as to who developed what... I would be at a loss to say.