Themes in Old Norse Mythological Art
And the Thunder Rolls
Thor's Chariot

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 "Thor has two he-goats, that are called Tooth-Gnasher and Tooth-Gritter, and a chariot wherein he drives, and the he-goats draw the chariot; therefore is he called Öku-Thor. " —Gylfaginning 21
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Bronze Age Petroglyphs at Bohuslän, Sweden
     


Iron Age, Thor's Goats from Tissø


1770 Johannes Wiedewelt


The following two images are remarkably similar.
Thor's chariot, appears at his feet, on the first step.
1810 Unknown Artist
Di Dei Della Mitologia Norrena
1822 Nils Henrik Sjöborg
Samlingar för Nordens Fornälskare



   1820s Artist Unknown
David Gräter's Idunna and Hermode

   
 
1831 Artist Unknown
Author: Gustav Thormod Legis
      

1832 Amalia von Schoppe 



1833 H.E. Freund
Scene from the Ragnarök Frieze
 


1850s Carl Christian Peters
Cermanics Design

 

 
1928 Photograph
 
2002 After Restoration
1850-1852 Robert Müller
Neues Museum, Berlin
(Heavily damaged in WWII and left in ruin until the reunification of Germany)







1856 Lorenz Frølich
Flensborg
Heimdall blowing the Gjallarhorn
 as Thor drives away with Loki







1856 Artist Unknown
Bullfinch's Age of Fable 



1858 August Winter

 



1860 Ludwig Pietsch  
 
 


1868-1930 George Eastman
Lantern Slide
    


1870s M.E. Winge


1872 M. E. Winge

Note the beard in the drawing below





1882 F. R.
Author: Frederick York Powell

    


1882 Karl Ehrenberg  
   


1882 Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder'
 

1800s Date and Artist Unknown



1885 Johannes Gehrts



1890 Karl Ehrenberg




1894 Nordische Göttersage Trading Cards
 Liebig Meat Extracts







1895 Lorenz Frølich (3 Images)

 


1897 Ernst Hermann Walther  

 
1899 Wilhelm Boehme



1900 Max Koch  






1901 Carl Johan Bonnesen
Thor in combat with the Jötunns'

Ny Carlsberg's New Brew House, Copenhagen, Denmark




1902 W. Rice



1903 Robert Engels


1904




1905 Carl Emil Doepler 'The Younger'
   

1906 George Hamilton Frye


1907 A.W.



 1908 Sarah Powers Bradish
After Johannes Gehrts


 

1910 Henry Wadsworth Moore



1912 Stockholm Olympiad


 

1912 Herbert E. Martini


1914 Artist Unknown
Curry-Holton Reader




1914 Rosemary Carr
in World Stories for Children



1916 Rhonda Campbell Chase



1920 Sheffer


1920


1925 Amy Cruse


1926 Carl Johan Bonnesen
Thor at War with the Jötuns
Grounds of Glud & Marstrand, Odense, Denmark



1928 R.B. Haberstock





1930 Charles H. Brock
 

1930 Wolfgang Ortmann



1931 Louis Moe
Thor's Chariot and Heimdall




Date Unknown, O. Theuer
    

1938 Wilhelm Petersen
 
 

1950 Dagfin Werenskiold


1967 Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire


1979-2009 Peter Madsen



1990s Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics





1993 Gillian McClure (2 Images)



1994 Alexander Koshkin




2003 Manfredi Toraldo & Sergio Tisselli
Tarot of the Vikings, The Chariot







2006 Gunnar Karlsson


2007 Ron Randall



2007 Jim Madsen
 


2007 Hrano Janto


2009 HeroClix Toys






2010-2013 Marvel Comics (3 Images)

      

2013 David Howard Johnson

David Howard Johnson.com
 



2015 CHRISTINA BALIT




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