Yesterday, I featured a Franz von Stuck painting called The Wild Chase (The Wild Hunt).
The following two renditions of The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien) by Norwegian Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831 -1892) offer clearer examples of what Odin's (Wotan's) wild hunt was about.
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
"The Wild Hunt of Odin is based on the Wild Hunt motif from folklore. In the Scandinavian tradition, the Wild Hunt is often associated with the god Odin. It consists of a terrifying procession that hurl across the sky during midwinter and abduct unfortunate people who have failed to find a hiding place.
In the Norwegian material, figures other than Odin who have been named as leaders of the hunt include Guro Rysserova, a supernatural female being with a mysterious male companion.[1] The folklorist Christine N. F. Eike has argued that the motif might have its origin in European traditions where young, unmarried men wear masks and move in processions during Christmastide."
The following two renditions of The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien) by Norwegian Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831 -1892) offer clearer examples of what Odin's (Wotan's) wild hunt was about.
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
"The Wild Hunt of Odin is based on the Wild Hunt motif from folklore. In the Scandinavian tradition, the Wild Hunt is often associated with the god Odin. It consists of a terrifying procession that hurl across the sky during midwinter and abduct unfortunate people who have failed to find a hiding place.
In the Norwegian material, figures other than Odin who have been named as leaders of the hunt include Guro Rysserova, a supernatural female being with a mysterious male companion.[1] The folklorist Christine N. F. Eike has argued that the motif might have its origin in European traditions where young, unmarried men wear masks and move in processions during Christmastide."
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