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Iron Wood (Járnviðr) is where the troll women and vicious wolves live. Thor enjoys going on rampages there whereas Loki treats it more like a giant, shady (no pun intended) red light district. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ Johan Egerkrans
According to The Impudent Edda, the snake that stays completely stationary and drips venom on Loki as punishment for his act of deicide is slow in the head because ”Patty boy hit it too hard with his shillelagh” when he chased it out of Ireland. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼️ J.D. Penrose
After John Bauer and Gustaf Tenggren, Einar Norelius took the ”Bland tomtar och troll” folklore illustration torch and carried it for more than half a gnomish and trollish century.
That steady old Väinämöinen heads south across the ice and snow on a sledge from his exile in the frozen wastes of Pohjola and attempts—without success—to flirt with the lovely lady alive in the sky. #MythologyMonday #ofdarkandmacabre #kalevala 🖼️N.C. Wyeth
Bad, murky, windy weather was to blame for Bjarni Herjólfsson’s navigational mishap when he sailed far off course and sighted Vinland in 986 while en route to Greenland. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ Carl Rasmussen
Freyja loves the Brisingamen so much, and the things she’ll do to get her hands on it are quite astonishing. #MythologyMonday 🖼️ Greg Hildebrandt
The giantess-turned-godess, Skadi, has a deep and unwavering love of the mountains, which contributes to serious marital strife with her sexy-footed husband who conversely much prefers the sea. They don’t live together anymore. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼️ Denyse Treble-Shorrocks
Theodor Kittelsen really captured the mood of a Norwegian princess delousing a troll with this one
The kyrkogrim is the Swedish variant of the English church grim: an animal that was buried alive beneath a church’s foundation and that subsequently wakes up from the dead each night to creep around the grounds and spook off ne’er-do-wells. #FaustianFriday 🖼️Reine Rosenberg
Sinfjötli and his brother-dad, Sigmund, put on some wolfskins and go rampaging in the woods as wolves in Völsunga Saga. Preparing for sweet, sweet bloodthirsty revenge tastes better when you're a wild 4-legged animal. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ JC Dollman