Some of the strange things seen on the beach, from racing sandyachts in 1608, to mermaids and mermen three centuries later.
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Frognerkilen with Oscarshall, a summer night on Fleskum Farm, Kalvøya in the sun, a summer house in Asker, and Munch’s Starry Night.
Human in their upper body, and fish from the waist down, these aren’t sirens at all, but have their own mythology in many traditions.
Companions to valkyries, accompanying the Wild Hunt, at the Crucifixion and executions, or the first sign of Spring?
Covering the Norns, Dagr, Nótt, Ægir, Gefjon, Bragi, Iðunn, Hervör, and the Wild Hunt or Åsgårdsreien.
Covering Thor, Odin, Valhalla, Valkyries, Freyja, Loki, and Baldr in paintings.
Seldom painted, except in Bouguereau’s pair of paintings showing her mother Nyx and Hemera.
She became quite popular in 19th century paintings, in association with Morpheus and his opium poppies.
Escorts of valkyries, the bird of the gibbet, and seeker of carrion: crows and ravens are associated with death, magic, and more.
Greece, France, death, day, night and more painted by Delacroix, Waterhouse, Watts, Gérôme, Malczewski, ER Hughes, and more.
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