Themes in Old Norse Mythological Art
Loki's Punishment
The Capture and Binding of Loki
Prose at the End of Lokasenna: "After this Loki, in the likeness of a salmon, cast himself into the waterfall of Franangr, where the Æsir caught him, and bound him with the entrails of his son Nari; but his other son, Narfi, was changed into a wolf. Skadi took a venomous serpent, and fastened it up over Loki’s face. The venom trickled down from it. Sigyn, Loki’s wife, sat by, and held a basin under the venom; and when the basin was full, carried the venom out. Meanwhile the venom dropped on Loki, who shrank from it so violently that the whole earth trembled. This causes what are not called earthquakes."
See Also: Heimdall and the Gjallarhorn

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Loki in Chains
Kirkby Stephen in Westmoreland

Loki and Sigyn 
The Gosforth Cross



1810 Artist Unknown
Di Dei Della Mitologia Norrena

Notice Bottom Panel


Loki and Sigyn 
1817 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 



1822 N.H. Sjöborg
Compare the Illustration published in 1810 above





Loki and Sigyn
1833 Carl Wahlbom



1840s Nils Blómmer



1850s Constantin Hansen



Edda Frieze
1856 W. Engelhardt

 


1863 M.E. Winge 


1865 Ludwig Pietsch


1871  Louis Huard 
 

Loki at Aegir's Feast

Loki's Punishment
1881 E. Phillip Fleischer



1882 Wagner Opera Trading Cards




Loki Making Trouble
1885 Lorenz Frølich



Loki's Escape
1885 Lorenz Frølich


Loki Bound
1885 Lorenz Frølich


 


Loki's Punishment
1885 Lorenz Frølich



Loki and Sigyn
1885 Joahnnes Gehrts




Loki's Punishment
 1888-1889 Niels Hansen Jacobsen


 

Loki and Sigyn
1890 Karl Ehrenberg





1892 Karl Gebhard
 


Loki's Punishment
1894 A. Chase (after Engelhardt)




The Punishment of Loki
1894 James Doyle Penrose

 


1897  Ernst H. Walther
 
     

1901 Artist Unknown
Gluck Auf



1901 Mabel H. Cummings

 


1901 Mabel H. Cummings
(after Engelhardt)

  
 

 Loki Escapes
1902 Elmer Boyd Smith

 

Loki at Aegir's Feast
1905 Carl Emil Doepler, Jr.

 

 
Loki and Sigyn
1905 Carl Emil Doepler, Jr.

   


Loki and Sigyn
1907 Arthur Rackham


 


In the Cave of Uthgarlocus (Utgard-Loki)
from Book 8 of Saxo's Danish History
1907 Louis Moe


 


Loki Causes Trouble
1908 William Gersham Collingwood


  
 
Loki and Sigyn
1908 William Gersham Collingwood

  
 
Loki's Punishment
1908 Ludwig Fahrenkrog




Loki Bound
1908 Patten Wilson


How Loki was Captured
1912 S.L
Author:
Ritza Freeman

 

The Feast at Aegir's
1913 Liebig Meat Extract Trading Card
 

 

1913 Gordon Browne


 

 1913 Gordon Browne



 

1920 Willy Pogány



1920 Franz Stassen 

 

 Thor Captures Loki
1922 W.O. Reese




Loki Bound
1923 Ida Matton 

 
1925 Amy Cruse

 


1930 Boris Artzybasheff

Padraic Column's Orpheus
Later Published as The Myths of the World
 


1930 Max Koch


"In all the world there was only one, who pitied him"
1930 Charles E Brock 



Sigyn
1930 Harry Theaker




The Capture and Binding of Loki
1934 L'Edda Trading Cards

 

 
Sigyn and Loki
1938 Wilhelm Petersen


   

Thor Captures Loki
1941 Wilhelm Grønbech
 


Loki and Sigyn
1950 Edouard Sandoz  
 
 


Loki and Sigyn
1950 Steele Savage

 
 


Loki and Sigyn
Marvel Comics

   


When He Writhes the Earth Quakes
1999 Mikhail Fiodorov



Loki in Lokasenna
Igor Ozhiganov

 

2003 Anker Eli Petersen

 
  


2015 Christina Balit
 


Loki Transforms
2017 Howard David Johnson
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The Punishment of Loki
2014 Howard David Johnson

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