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Submitted: May 20, 2007
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Submitted: May 20, 2007
File Size: 3.7 MB
Image Size: 190 KB
Resolution: 800×707
Comments: 69
Favourites & Collections: 466 [who?]
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Total: 4,915
Today: 4
Downloads
Total: 96
Today: 0
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**EDIT 3/26/08**
Wow, daily deviation!! Long have I waited for this day. Anyway, since there were some print requests for this piece, I've decided to put up a larger version and put it up for sale! So please, if you love me, buy a print (I have to pay my rent in a week!)
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Hraesevelg, who's name (according to some awfully friendly and helpful folks who commented) probably means something along the lines of "Corpse Swallower" which is pretty awesome.
Either way, he's either a jotun who turns himself into an eagle, or just a really huge eagle, who sits at the end of the sky, before the gates of Nifelheim, and flaps his wings. This blows cold wind and frost into the world, causing all manner of winter storms and bad weather.
If you are looking at this and thinking "he kinda looks like a chicken" it's because I was greatly influenced by some old norse weathervanes, and the birds on those were probably roosters.
Wow, daily deviation!! Long have I waited for this day. Anyway, since there were some print requests for this piece, I've decided to put up a larger version and put it up for sale! So please, if you love me, buy a print (I have to pay my rent in a week!)
***************
Hraesevelg, who's name (according to some awfully friendly and helpful folks who commented) probably means something along the lines of "Corpse Swallower" which is pretty awesome.
Either way, he's either a jotun who turns himself into an eagle, or just a really huge eagle, who sits at the end of the sky, before the gates of Nifelheim, and flaps his wings. This blows cold wind and frost into the world, causing all manner of winter storms and bad weather.
If you are looking at this and thinking "he kinda looks like a chicken" it's because I was greatly influenced by some old norse weathervanes, and the birds on those were probably roosters.
Daily Deviation, 2008-03-25
"~Relotixke creates a brilliant interpretation of a less known element of the Norse mythology. Made with an excellent painting technique, a very clever composition and a stylized bird, Hraesvelg, the winter eagle fittingly recalls the ancient original Norse art." (Suggested by ~solfieri and Featured by ^oilsoaked)
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I'm loving you're Norse mythology and your art revolving around it, it's a lot of fun to see origonal artwork.
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It's an amazing piece, really well done and just illustrates the topic at hand so well.
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I had seen his name written as Hraesvelgr, but I wasn't sure if the r at the end was actually part of the word or not. Either way, awesome. Thanks so much for sharing this information!
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