Völuspá – Illustrations
The Völva (seeress).
Details of backdrop illustrations for a symphonic concert, "Völuspá", composed by Icelandic award winning composer/producer Thorvaldur Bjarni Thorvaldsson. The symphony is composed based on the first and best known poem of the poetic Edda, Völuspá (Prophecy of the Völva (Seeress).
Odin and his two ravens, Huginn and Muninn.
The Sun, riding Árvakur and Alsvinnur.
The Gods created dwarves.
The three norns – Urdur, Verdandi & Skuld at Urdarbrunnur.
Thor and his hammer Mjölnir.
Thor's goats, Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr, pull the god's chariot.
Frigg and her son Baldur.
Loki and Baldur's blind brother Höður. Tricked and guided by Loki, Höður shot the mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldur.
"Brothers shall fight | and fell each other, …"
"… ere the world falls; / Nor ever shall men | each other spare."
(The Poetic Edda, by Henry Adams Bellows)
Odin's ravens, Huginn & Muninn.
Odin & Fenrir fight during Ragnarök.
Fenrir fighting Odin.
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