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Draugen is a huge, seaweed covered monster in Norwegian folklore, that was thought to be the ghost of a drowned fisherman. Draugen often appeared during storms, trying to drag the fishermen under water and drown them.


“The Sea Monster”
Theodor Kittelsen (1881)

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2021-10-15

I guess I'm back. Hope everyone is doing well

Art by Theodor S. Kittelsen

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2021-10-14

She Is Making Her Way Through the Country, 1900

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2021-10-14

“Out of the boat rushed a Draug in seaman's clothes, but with a heavy crop of seaweed instead of a head. It had been weighing down the boat by sitting in the stern, and now dashed into the sea, so that the foam spirted all over them.”
~ Jonas Lie



🎨T. Kittelsen

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2021-09-20

Various depictions of trollishness by Theodor Kittelsen, one of the world's greatest trolldom visualizers; he really captured their wild essence, even when they march through downtown Oslo or storm a fairytale castle. https://t.co/GK74sCyzpz

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2021-09-17

theodor-kittelsen:

Logn Og Forbandet Digt, Theodor Severin Kittelsen https://t.co/oDeovj0927

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2021-08-20

“Troll, be thyself - and thyself alone!” (Henrik Ibsen "Peer Gynt")

Humming Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is highly recommended now (aide-mémoire: https://t.co/ttluzC9g5f)

🖼️ Theodor Kittelsen "Peer Gynt in the Hall of the Mountain King" (1913)

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2021-08-17