Just one piece - a bronze sculpture by Wissler c.1900, which is a fountain in Sweden
Showing posts with label Norse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norse. Show all posts
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Midgard Serpent - Modern Art
These are all cool, but the Alice Alex painting wins for me.
Mark Rosenthal - 1989
Ragnarok by "harrybuddhapalm"
Michael Heilemann - Horn of the Midgard Serpent
Alice Alex - Midgard Serpent
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Midgard Serpent - Fine Art [Ancient Art]
Date Unknown [possibly a resoration?]
"Altuna Runestone" - Sweden - c.1000AD
Midgard Serpent - Fine Art [Illuminated Manuscripts]
Thor and Hymir go fishing - from an Icelandic manuscript c. 1700
Midgard Serpent - unknown manuscript - unknown date
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Midgard Serpent - Fine Art [Drawing]
William Pogany - Children of Loki [Midgard Serpent with Fenrir and Hel] - 1920
Thor and the Giant Hymir fish for the Midgard Serpent [artist/ date unknown]
Heine - Scene from Ragnarok [Midgard Serpent and Fenrir] - 1882
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Midgard Serpent - Introduction [Norse Cosmology]
The Midgard Serpent, like the Cetus, is another leviathan, but on a titanic scale. In Norse Mythology, the Midgard Serpent - "Jörmungandr" - was a massive sea snake who swam in the outer sea. His body was so large that he encircled the earth, grasping his tail in his mouth.
The Norse have a multi-tiered structure of the universe, with the Earth (or Midgard) at the center. The world tree Yggdrasil (a common motif in ancient cosmologies, especially Indo-European myths) connects the different worlds like a giant pillar, from the home of the gods (Asgard) above to Nilfeim and other lands below (home of the Trolls, the dead, etc.)
When Jörmungandr releases his tail from his mouth, it will initiate Rägnarok (the end of the world).
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