Norse Mythology
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Asgardsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin)
Painting · Peter Nicolai Arbo
Arbo's Asgardsreien (1872) is the great Romantic painting of the Norse Wild Hunt, Odin and the host of the dead riding across the night sky.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Norse Mythology, and connec
Ulver
Black Metal · Kristoffer Rygg (Oslo, 1993)
Ulver began in Oslo in 1993 as a folkloric black metal project (the Bergtatt trilogy, drawn from Norwegian fairy tale and the motif of being taken into the mountain) before moving on into wholly other
Enslaved
Black Metal · Grutle Kjellson & Ivar Bjornson (Norway, 1991)
Enslaved, formed in Norway in 1991, built the bridge from second-wave black metal to a wider Norse and progressive register. Their catalogue is explicitly rooted in Old Norse mythology and the Viking
Bathory
Black Metal · Quorthon (Stockholm, 1983)
Bathory, formed in Stockholm in 1983 around Quorthon, is one of the founding works of black metal and the origin point of Viking metal. The early records set the genre's raw template; the later ones (
Lokasenna
Illustration · Lorenz Frølich
Drawn in 1895, Frølich's illustration of the Lokasenna scene shows the Norse trickster god Loki bound to three stones, with Skadi setting the serpent above his head whose venom drips into a basin held
