Bebilderungen

March of the Goths. Arnold Bocklin (Swiss, 1827-1901).

Happy Arcadia. Konstantin Makovsky (Russian, 1839-1915).

Thracian helmet, 4th century BC, discovered in 1997 at the village of Pletena, Bulgaria, western Rhodope mountains.

From Hardanger (1847). Hans Gude (Norwegian, 1825-1903).

Norwegian Landscape (1858). Hans Frederic Gude (Norwegian, 1825-1903).

Nymphaea Alba. Karl Raupp (German, 1837-1918).

Isolde: La Princesse Celte (1911). Gaston Bussière (French, 1862-1928).

A young Frisian woman in traditional clothing. Föhr Island, Germany

‘The Seal Woman’, a 2.6 meter high statue in Mikladular Harbour up at the Faroe Islands. It depicts a Selkie, a creature that lives in the sea as a seal but can shed their seal hide to become a human on land. Lonely Scottish fishermen on the Western and Northern Isles were known to steal the seal hides from unsuspecting Selkies and marry them, sometimes having children with them. If the Selkie ever found her skin again though she would return to the sea immediately. These creatures were reported for centuries and are central to Shetland, Orcadian, Faroese and Icelandic folklore. ???????????