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Trolls have long been the most ubiquitous purveyors of distinctly Scandinavian creepiness. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼️Erik Werenskiold
The thunder god Thor and the sea monster Jörmungandr have a very long and very contentious history involving many, many, many differences of opinion. #MythologyMonday 🖼️An 18th century Icelandic scribe / Henry Fuseli
Odin and his very quiet brothers slew Ymir, the primordial frost giant, and then used his corpse to terraform the entire known world, creating, among other unique geological features, the ocean from his blood. #MythologyMonday 🖼 Giovanni Caselli
The full front cover of the Puffin Carcass edition of Norse Mythology for Bostonians: A Transcription of the Impudent Edda, mostly unadulterated by twitcropping. https://t.co/ILLicAkffN
Styrbjörn the Strong is the hero of his own full saga (now lost), set in ancient Svealand and featuring the likes of Eric the Victorious and the Jomsvikings. #FolkloreThursday 🖼 Mårten Eskil Winge & Jenny Nyström https://t.co/l51YwCQ1gd
For those who like their illustrated story-telling to bridge the gap between roaming Norse seafarers and ancient Strathclyde (while giving a serious nod to the @GovanStones), then @MalkyDungeon’s The Hogback Saga should do just the trick. #WyrdWednesday https://t.co/u79bPwrsyh
In 1947 Tove Jansson first gave us Mumintroll, and the world hasn't been the same since; the Mumempire now includes Moomin World in Naantali, Finland and the Moominsailors who patrol the decks of Silja Line's Stockholm-Helsinki Baltic crossing on the MS Serenade. #WyrdWednesday
Tyr just keepin' it real on a gloomy, wolf-ridden Tuesday 🖼️John Bauer förstås
Fenrir will break loose from his shackles and finally get even with Odin by eating him alive when the world finally ends in a cataclysmic purging of blood, fire, and death. 🖼 Dorothy Hardy #FaustianFriday https://t.co/IbJaTIzr80