163. 雷神击打米德加德,1790年`Thor battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790 by Henry Fuseli 高清作品[21%]

AF-Thor battering the Midgard Serpent, 1790

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雷神击打米德加德,1790年-约翰·亨利希·菲斯利

-This mythological subject comes from the Icelandic sagas of the Edda, which were known in England from P. H. Mallet’s book Northern Antiquities (1770). Fuseli depicts the fable in which Thor rows out in a boat with the giant Hymir, shown cowering somewhat cowardly in the stern. Using an ox’s head as bait, Thor manages to fish up the Serpent of Midgard. In the top left is shown the elderly figure of the god Odin.