Norse Collection (page 2)

Scenes from the Pillar of the Boatmen, monumental Roman column erected in Lutetia (Paris) in honour of Jupiter by the guild of boatmen in the 1st century AD

Ancient Germanic gods and kings: Flins and Radgost
Ancient Germanic deities and kings: Flinna or Flins, god of death in Wendish mythology, idol of the Vandals 1, and Radagasto or Radgost with ax, bird crown and bull breastplate

Ancient Germanic gods: Irmensula, Crodo and Prono
Ancient Germanic deities: Irmensula, god of the Saxons and Westphalians depicted in medieval armour 1, Crodo or Cronus (Saturn) with spear and shield 2, and Prono or Brennus

View of the encampment of German and Roman armies
View of the battle formation, encampment and entrenchment of German and Roman armies in ancient Germany. Roman legions with eagles, cavalry and barracks

The god Thor and goddess Nehalennia
Germanic or Norse deities: the god Thor and goddess Nehalennia. Labeled with their interpretatio romana translations Hercules Magusanus and Massom Salus (Massonius Laetus)

King Canute (Cnut)
KING CNUT / CANUTE King of England (1016-35) and Denmark (1018-35). Date: 11th century

Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress

THE WILD HUNT
DIE WILDE JAGD - the Wild hunt

BERTHOLD
Berthold, Graf von Rhein, narrowly avoids death from the Demon of Blasphemy by uttering a timely prayer

A ride in the magic Sleigh. Date: 1879

Per Gynt. Date: 1879

BEOWULF'S DEATH
The elderly Beowulf finally dies after an encounter with a dragon

Bifrost or The Rainbow Bridge leading to the Afterlife
Bifrost - a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard (the realm of the gods) in Norse mythology. 1916

Ancient stone structure near Albersdorf, Germany
Ancient stone megalith structure near Albersdorf, Germany. Ara antica di Albersdorf. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Last phase of the Battle of Assendun (Essendune) on 18 October 1016, with the defeat of King Edmund Ironside of England by the Danes led by Cnut (Canute)

Black satyr, Norse grayling and grayling female
Black satyr, Satyrus actaea, Norse grayling, Oeneis norna, and grayling, Hipparchia semele, female. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

The Norns are the equivalent of the Fates. They tend the Well of Destiny, located beneath Yggdrasil, the World Tree. There are usually three of them, sometimes more

BUST OF THOR
Thor, second in comand amoung the Aesir (Norse gods) after Odin. Thor is the god of thunder & ruler of the sky

VALKYRIE APPEARS
A warrior is dazzled by the appearance of a Valkyrie

ERLKONIG
Erlkonig (Goethe)

WOTANS WILD HUNT
WOTANS HUNT of Norse myth

Norse drinking horn
DRINKING HORN from Hallingdalen, Norway Date: quite old

Laplanders - Norway
Lapp farmers in full furs

Asgard Destroyed
The destruction of Asgard, home of the gods, following the final battle of Ragnarok or Gotterdammerung. But don t worry, a better and friendlier realm will replace it

YMIR
A frost giant

AEGIR
The Norse god of the sea : his wife, Ran, can be seen beneath the waves

Odin and Yggdrasil
Odin (Wodan), Scandinavian deity acquires the runes by hanging for nine days from the branches of the world-tree Yggdrasil (of which we have a fine engraving.)

IDISE
The Idise are protective deities who capture men with their deceitful tricks

WOLWA
The WOLWA is a female shaman or seeress who is consulted by those seeking to learn the likely outcome of their enterprise, project or undertaking

Nerthus / Hertha
NERTHUS aka HERTHA German / Scandinavian goddess of fertility, worshipped on the island of Rugen

Idun & Golden Apples
Idun, keeper of the golden apples which keep the gods young

King Canute gets his feet wet
King Canute of England (1016-1035) and Denmark (1018-1035) gets his feet rather wet as he attempts to command the waves! The story may be apocryphal

Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel, near Oslo, Norway
Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel, in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. Date: circa 1910

Norway. Fisherman and peasant in the Valley of Eide. Colored engraving in The Iberian Illustration, 1885

The Ogham Stone / Ireland
An Ogham Stone, found at Fortwilliam, Kerry. Ogham stones were covered in strange runic scripts, translated by scholars as possible Christian writings or even Norse text. Date: mid 19th century

Norwegian Drinking Horn
DRINKING HORN from Hallingdalen, Norway Date: quite old

Opera at Covent Garden, London. Date: 1913

Gefion Fountain - Copenhagen, Denmark
The Gefion Fountain - a large fountain on the harbour front in Copenhagen, Denmark. Depicts a large-scale group of animal figures being driven by the legendary Norse goddess, Gefjun

Svea (Swede)
Svea or Swede. Mythological Norse conqueror od Sweden Date: circa 1902

RAGNARK
A depiction of Ragnarck, the Doomsday of the Teutons

Heidrun in Valhalla
Goat Heidrun browsing under the roof of Valhalla. Illustration in The Olafur Brynjulfsson Edda 1760, a manuscript which contains material from both the Younger and Elder Edda

Beer for Odin
Baugi drills into the mountain so Odin can get mjod (a kind of beer). Illustration in The Olafur Brynjulfsson Edda 1760, a manuscript which contains material from both the Younger and Elder Edda

The giant Thiassi
The giant Thassi in Disguise to an eagle steals meat from the gods. Illustration in The Olafur Brynjulfsson Edda 1760, a manuscript which contains material from both the Younger and Elder Edda

Viking Ruins
The ruins of a fine dry stone building, reputed to have once been the stronghold of the former Norse Chieftains of the islands, Jarlshof, Sumburgh, Shetland, Scotland. Date: 9th or 10th century

Morton, North Yorkshire - The Aegir - a tidal surge on the River Trent. It takes its name from Aegir, the Norse god of the ocean

All Faiths Cross
A non-Christian cross and solar disk on the exterior of Atlantic House, London, which represents the generic multi faith ideal of sacrifice. The disc representing Odin. Date: 1930s

Rhinemaidens Tell Loge
Loke/Loge (fiery spirit) with the Rhine Maidens

Freya & Maidens
Freya (Frigga) and her handmaidens

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