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The Wild Hunt of Odin

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shows a hunting party of airborne horsemen who move across a dark sky. They are accompanied by ravens and owls and seem to emerge from clouds in the background. All horses are black except for one white horse at the front. Spearheading the hunt is a helmeted man, possibly
202:'s first wife, and Guro Rysserova, a supernatural female being with a mysterious male companion. 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 338:, with the opening "Through the nightly air stampedes a train of frothing black horses". The poem is about a Christmas wedding that turns violent and is visited by the Wild Hunt. The painting's compositional arrangement, with its diagonal movements, is close to Arbo's 308:. The rest of the hunters appear to be men, with the addition of three captured nude women. The party members are armed with spears and other weapons. Two men at the front wear pelts over their heads, indicating they are 257:(1835) presented it as a pagan element that survived into Christian times, where it had been adapted into a demonic phenomenon. It had been used by 19th-century continental painters such as 380: 656:
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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
247:, they viewed their mythological paintings as ethical allegories and not as representations of real deities. In modern culture, the Wild Hunt had been popularized by 697: 392: 156: 93: 276:. Arbo depicted the Wild Hunt several times and made a first oil painting of it in 1868. The 1868 version, which shows the hunters in profile, is owned by the 277: 861: 359:(1860–62) by Malmström, which depicts the Norse gods in the sky above a battlefield. The way the mythological subjects are treated aligns with 730: 665: 272:, whose works Arbo was familiar with. It is also likely that Arbo was familiar with writings about the Wild Hunt by the Norwegian folklorist 836: 473: 387: 39: 430:
described it in 2013 as his "chief work" and complimented its "true, dramatic pathos" and "rich and imaginative composition".
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from the early 19th-century Romantics. The most prominent painters in this group were the Norwegian Arbo and the Swedes
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By 1872, the depiction of Norse myths was largely out of fashion among art critics, who had more enthusiasm for
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The Wild Hunt for Norway: Peter Nicolai Arbo and Artistic Hybridity in the Nineteenth-Century
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166 cm × 240.5 cm (65 in × 94.7 in)
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dismissed Arbo's and Winge's mythological works as "ghosts and bogeymen".
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Scandinavian painters who had inherited an interest in
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Index

Norwegian

Peter Nicolai Arbo
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Oslo
Nasjonalmuseet Collection online
Norwegian
lit.
Asgard
Peter Nicolai Arbo
Wild Hunt
Scandinavian folklore
Johan Sebastian Welhaven
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Oslo
Wild Hunt
folklore
Scandinavian tradition
Odin
midwinter
Lussi
Adam
Christmastide

Peter Nicolai Arbo
Romantic
Norse mythology
Mårten Eskil Winge
August Malmström

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