Ragnarok

• Main Author: Ramskou, Thorkild
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Danish
• Published: Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab 1953
• Subjects: Ragnarok; Viking; Sigurd; Grane; Vidar; Interpretation of pictures; tolkning af billeder; mythical figures; Balder; Iceland
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/kuml/article/view/97123

RagnarokIn the majority of cases the art of the Viking Period is purely ornamental. More rarely, however, it is representative, though this does not imply that type-representations as we understand the term today were produced. Instead the artist preferred to picture scenes and actions from the myth...