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This drawing made by a 17th-century Icelander shows the four stags on the World Tree. Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The ...
Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...
Sculptures of Norse mythology (1 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 9 November 2021, at 19:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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Thor's Fight with the Giants. Thor's Fight with the Giants (Swedish: Tors strid med jättarna) is an 1872 painting by the Swedish artist Mårten Eskil Winge.It depicts the Norse god Thor in a battle against the jötnar.
Norse mythology in music (3 C, 29 P) N. Novels set in the Viking Age (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Norse mythology in art and literature" The following 21 pages are ...
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...
In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered to mean "drill-tooth" [1] or "bore-tooth" [2]) is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the eagles perched atop it and the serpent Níðhöggr who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.