The swastika symbol features prominently in this artwork.
Drawn three
decades before the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany,
the swastika is used here as an ancient pagan sun-wheel without racist or
anti-Semitic connotations.
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Hávamál |
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The Guests' Wisdom
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Odin and Billing's
Daughter |
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Odin and Gunnlöd
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Odin's Self-Sacrifice
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Harbarðsljóð |
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"Who is that Churl of Churls
who cries across the water?"
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"I fought with Hrungnir" |
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"Keep on the left hand way until you reach Verland!"
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Odin on Sleipnir |
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Þrymskviða |
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The hammer was stolen
while Thor slept
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"Hear Now Loki! The As' hammer is stolen!"
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Loki flies in Freyja's falcon guise
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"I would lend it to
thee, were it made of gold."
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The Loki Laufey's son said, "I
will go with you as a servant, we two shall drive to Jötunheim" |
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"Why are her looks so piercing?
Methinks fire burns in her eyes!"
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Hymiskviða |
"You shall give the Aesir a feast!" |
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"I expect you will obtain bait
from an ox!" |
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"With his hammer, he struck the foul monster's head" |
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From the east he saw coming, a troop of many-headed giants
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"Strike at the head of
Hymir...it is stronger than any cup!"
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Thor's goat lamed in one leg |
He slew all the
Mountain-Giants who had persued him with Hymir
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