Themes in Old Norse Mythological Art
Thor Fishing for the Midgard Serpent
and the Battle of Ragnarok

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Hordum Rune Stone

Altuna Rune Stone

Gosforth Rune Stone



The Midgard Serpent
1680 Edda Oblongata


1760 Edda Manuscript
  

 
1790 Henri Füsseli   

     
1790 William Blake

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The Ragnarok Frieze
1821 H.E. Freund



1822 Nils Henrik Sjöborg 
  
 

1838 Mythologie Pittoresque
ou  Histoire Méthodique Universelle des Faux Dieux 
by Joseph-Jacques Odolant-Desnos


Thor and Hymir
1855 Lorenz Frølich
 


Thor Obtains Bait from an Ox
1871 W.J.Weigand



1876 Carl Emil Doepler, Sr.

  

Karl Ehrenberg



Thor and Hymir
1885 Lorenz Frølich




Thor and Hymir
1885 Lorenz Frølich



Scenes from Hymiskvida
by Lorenz Frølich






Thor Dead
1885 Lorenz Frølich




1887 Anne Marie Carl-Neilsen
Thor med Midgaardsormen
Scultpture





1893 Jenny Nystrom
 

1901 Mabel Cummings
After Carl Emil Doepler, Sr.
 

   

Thor Fishing
1902 Howard Pyle


1903 E. E. Speight


 

1903 Henrik Wissler
Tors Fiske, Stockholm
Sculpture


1902 George Wright
 

1905 Carl Emil Doepler 'The Younger'





1907 Arthur Rackham

 

1908 William Gersham Collingwood
 

1914 Artist Unknown Curry-Holton Reader


1920 Franz Stassen


1920 Willy Pogány


Thor and Hymir Fishing
1930 Charles E Brock


Thor Fights Jormungand
1930 Charles E Brock



Ragnarok
1930s Louis Moe


 

1938 Wilhelm Petersen


1938 Wilhelm Petersen


Thor's Fishing
1941 Wilhelm Grønbech


Thor Kills the Serpent
 

1968 Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire
 


1978 Giovanni Caselli







2010 Dietwald Doibles


2010 Dietwald Doblies



Artist Unknown

 

2015 Howard David Johnson
DavidHowardJohnson.com


 
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