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21 Works – RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from Norse mythology, with footnotes – #1

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Peter Nicolai Arbo
Detail; The wild Hunt of Odin, c. 1872
Oil on canvas
Width: 240.5 cm, Height: 166 cm
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Before there was soil, or sky, there was only the gaping abyss, Ginnungagap. This chaos of perfect silence and darkness lay between the homeland of elemental fire, Muspelheim, and the homeland of elemental ice, Niflheim…

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