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The nude and muscular Thor stands in Hymir's boat with the Jörmungandr on his fish hook. In the top left corner, the god Odin appears as an old man. [1] It depicts one of the most popular myths in Germanic mythology, Thor's fishing trip, which was known to Fuseli through P. H. Mallet's 1755 book Introduction à l'histoire du Dannemarc, translated to English by Thomas Percy in 1770 as Northern ...
Jörmungandr in the sea during Ragnarök, drawn by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe in 1898.. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, lit. 'the Vast 'gand'', see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr), is an unfathomably large and monstrous sea serpent or worm who dwells in the world sea, encircling the Earth and biting ...
Captioned as "Thor Fighting the Serpent". Thor brandishes his hammer at Jörmungandr. Date: Published in 1901: Source: Foster, Mary H. 1901. Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology. Silver, Burdett and Company. Page 105. Author: Signed "H. L. M." Permission (Reusing this file)
The image on the Altuna Runestone does not show Hymir, which may be due to the narrow shape of the stone, but it shows Thor, his line and tackle and the serpent, and notably, Thor's foot which has been pushed through the hull of the boat. [1] This encounter between Thor and Jörmungandr seems to have been one of the most popular motifs in Norse ...
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 . The thunder god rides his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr , wears his belt Megingjörð , and swings his hammer Mjölnir , which ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:43, 24 February 2009: 610 × 769 (580 KB): Holt: Processed version. 01:41, 24 February 2009: 700 × 873 (139 KB): Holt {{Information |Description=An illustration of the god Thor and the jötunn Hymir on the sea, where Thor gets Jörmungandr on the hook; from an Icelandic 18th century manuscript. |Source=NKS 1867 4to, 93v
The image on the stone illustrates a legend recorded in the Hymiskviða of the Poetic Edda, in which the Norse god Thor fishes for Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent. [2] Thor goes fishing with the jötunn Hymir using an ox head for bait, and catches Jörmungandr, who then either breaks loose [3] or, as told in the Gylfaginning of the Prose Edda ...
Thor's foot goes through the boat as he struggles to pull up Jörmungandr in the Altuna Runestone. Hymiskviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Hymir'; [1] anglicized as Hymiskvitha, Hymiskvidha or Hymiskvida) is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda. The poem was first written down in the late 13th century. [2]