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"Orpheus and Eurydice" by English painter, Edward Poynter (1862).

"What freedom!", by Russian painter Ilya Repin (1903).

Men hiking alone in a Norwegian forest should be careful if they meet a beautiful young woman. She might be huldra, a creature that make men following her get lost. She might even drag them down into the underworld.
Art: Huldra's Nymphs by Bernard Evans Ward (British, 1857-1933)
#FolkloreThursday

In Russian folklore, the firebird is a magical bird with golden feathers and the object of the hero’s quest. In one tale, after stealing golden apples from the tsar’s garden, it is chased by Prince Ivan, who successfully captures it and becomes king. Art by Boris Kukuliev (Russian). #FolkloreThursday

Sir Galahad by Arthur Hughes (English, 1831-1915).

"Two Peasant Girls Listening to the Strömkarlen Play." Johan Zacharias Blackstadius (14 March (1816-1898, Swedish painter).
Fossegrim, also known simply as the grim (Norwegian) or Strömkarlen (Swedish), is a water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore. Fossegrim plays the fiddle, especially the Hardanger fiddle. Fossegrim has been associated with a mill spirit (kvernknurr) and is related to the water spirit (neck) and is sometimes also called näcken in Sweden. It is associated with rivers (Swedish name "Strömkarlen" means "The River Man") and particularly with waterfalls (foss in Norwegian) and mill races. #FolkloreThursday

Johan Zacharias Blackstadius (14 March (1816-1898, Swedish painter).
Äppelvikens gård, Bromma 1856.

Pict with Drinking Horn. This 9th century warrior of the Pictish tribe drinks from an eagle, the ancient symbol of power. From Invergowrie, Scotland.

Armand Point : le phalanstère d'Hauteclaire (1896)

The Avenue at Middelharnis is a Dutch Golden Age painting of 1689 by Meindert Hobbema (Dutch Golden Age painter, 1638-1709). It shows a road leading to the village of Middelharnis on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee in the Maas delta in South Holland, the Netherlands.

"Bragi and Idun" and "Freya obtains Brisingamen", by Alexander Zick (German), born 1845. His black and white reproductions published in Wagner's Germanische Göttersagen are all that remain of his beautiful depictions of Old Norse gods and goddesses.

Mountain Paintings (Including the Matterhorn) Edward Theodore Compton (German painter, 1849-1921).

Draper (Herbert James) (British, 1863-1920), Clyties of the Mist or The Morning Mists

The Sagasøyla (Saga Column) at Elveseter Farm, Bøverdalen, Norway. The column, once meant to stand next to Parliament as Norway's National Monument, depicts moments of Norwegian historical significance. Commissioned in 1926 by the Norwegian government and begun by Wilhelm Rasmussen.
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