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The beast Fenrir is running with its mouth wide open, swallowing everything that comes in its way. The upper part of its mouth reaches high up into the sky, while the bottom part touches the ground.
\nOdin takes a firm grip on Gugnir. Right behind Odin come his two wolves Geiri and Freki.\u00a0Time has come for Odin to face his destiny. The beast runs towards Odin.\u00a0Odin is swallowed by the monstrous beast.<\/p>\n
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Acrylic painting 120 X 60 cm<\/strong><\/p>\n This could represent the victory of Christianity over paganism. But this could also be the opposite: the noble knight contemplates the fragile character crucified, desperately longing for a fading light. This knight could also be Longinus, who comes to\u00a0plant his spear in the side of Christ.<\/p>\n The vikings saw the world as a disc floating on the sea. In the middle, Yggdrasil as an “axis mundi” making the connection with the cosmos,<\/p>\n An over interpretation of Viking’s cosmology… More accurate.<\/p>\n CHAMANIC TENT (gouache, ink and varnish)<\/p>\n Midgard<\/p>\n Painting, mixt of water color, ink and varnish<\/p>\n Ymir is a hermaphroditic giant and the first creature to come into being in the Norse creation narrative. Ymir birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat a six-headed being. He produced a son, Borr, who mated with Bestla, one of Ymir\u2019s descendants. From their union came Odin and his two brothers, Vili and Ve. The brothers then slew Ymir and fashioned the cosmos from his corpse, as mentioned in the poetic Edda:<\/span><\/p>\n Gouache, ink<\/p>\n Snorri wrote in Gylfagining <\/em>that blood of Ymir flooded the earth after his killing.\u00a0All the giants were drowned except one who saved himself by floating on a l\u00fa\u00f0r. We do not know exactly what is a lu\u00f0r… A piece of wood? a coffin?<\/p>\n Some samples of my illustrations of the Ragnar\u00f6k, the Viking’s apocalypse.<\/p>\n This image is only part\u00a0of a\u00a0bigger picture from the third chapter of\u00a0my book on Ragnar\u00f6k. We see Lif and Leif Prasir, the couple who managed to survive the cataclysm.<\/p>\n Odin riding his 8 cylinders horse\u00a0“Sleipnir” followed by his two wolves Geri and Freki.<\/p>\n The DVD<\/strong> recounting the misfortune of the gods, their tragic battle against demons, is finally released and available! I made the pictures, Lars Huld\u00e9n wrote in Swedish the text superbly narrated by Sixten Lundberg. The editing is done by Sirpa Papinaho. Thanks to these talented people!<\/p>\n![\"longin\"](\"http:\/\/www.e-mage.fi\/works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/longin.jpg\")
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\n From Ymir\u2019s flesh the earth was created,
\nAnd from his sweat [or, in some versions, blood] the sea,
\nMountains from bone,
\nTrees from hair,
\nAnd from his skull the sky.
\nAnd from his eyebrows the blithe gods made
\nMidgard, home of the sons of men
\nAnd from his brains
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