Behold Katatonia’s The Longest Year music video! It features eerie images of Carl Milles’ sculptures from Millesgården, located on the island of Lidingö, just outside of Stockholm. If you pay close attention, you’ll even notice a replica of his Poseidon, which resides in Gothenburg. And as we all know (or […]
Hail to Norwegian Neo-Norse Architecture
Behold the Dalen Hotel: Wow, right? Or maybe just eh, depending on your mood and how much you like buildings that imitate medieval Scandinavian stave churches like the one at Borgund, which is probably the most famous of them. But you can’t sleep overnight in a stave church, and that […]
Celebrate the Solstice with John Bauer
“Holy shit, Tyr just stuck his hand in the wolf’s mouth!…Sweet.” That, I think, is the effect John Bauer was going for in this piece. He was really good at this sort of thing, and it’s unfortunate that he’s dead. But then that’s just one of the natural side effects […]
Epic Faroese Postal Art
The Faroese Philatelic Office has released a number of beautiful stamps depicting scenes from Norse mythology, among other things relating to Faroese life. If you wish to see these works of beauty, click here . And here is Anker Eli Petersen’s homepage where you can find more images/info (he’s the […]
Behold the Garbage Troll!
The Garbage Troll is fearsome and smelly and courtesy of Matt Smith, a fellow Masshole who dabbles online with the Norse arts: http://matt-illustrations.blogspot.com/ http://barbarianlord.blogspot.com/
Badass Viking Stained Glass
Lo! And behold.
Happy winter solstice…behold the Snow Viking!
Behold the Snow Viking! He is pudgy and sort of blurry