And the Thunder Rolls
Thor's Chariot
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"Thor has two he-goats, that are called Tooth-Gnasher and Tooth-Gritter, and a chariot wherein he drives, and the he-goats draw the chariot; therefore is he called Öku-Thor. " —Gylfaginning 21[HOME][POPULAR RETELLINGS][THEMES IN OLD NORSE ART]
 Bronze Age Petroglyphs at Bohuslän, Sweden |
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 Iron Age, Thor's Goats from Tissø |
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 1770 Johannes Wiedewelt |
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The following two images are remarkably similar. Thor's chariot, appears at his feet, on the first step.
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 1820s Artist Unknown David Gräter's Idunna and Hermode |
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 1831 Artist Unknown Author: Gustav Thormod Legis |
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 1832 Amalia von Schoppe |
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 1833 H.E. Freund Scene from the Ragnarök Frieze |
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 1850s Carl Christian Peters Cermanics Design |
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Neues Museum, Berlin (Heavily damaged in WWII and left in ruin until the reunification of Germany)  |
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 1856 Lorenz Frølich Flensborg Heimdall blowing the Gjallarhorn as Thor drives away with Loki  |
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 1856 Artist Unknown Bullfinch's Age of Fable |
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 1858 August Winter |
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 1860 Ludwig Pietsch |
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 1868-1930 George Eastman Lantern Slide |
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 1870s M.E. Winge  1872 M. E. Winge Note the beard in the drawing below  |
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 1882 F. R. Author: Frederick York Powell |
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 1882 Karl Ehrenberg |
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 1882 Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder' |
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 1800s Date and Artist Unknown |
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 1885 Johannes Gehrts |
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 1890 Karl Ehrenberg |
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 1894 Nordische Göttersage Trading Cards Liebig Meat Extracts |
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   1895 Lorenz Frølich (3 Images) |
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 1897 Ernst Hermann Walther |
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 1899 Wilhelm Boehme |
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 1900 Max Koch |
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  1901 Carl Johan Bonnesen Thor in combat with the Jötunns' Ny Carlsberg's New Brew House, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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 1902 W. Rice |
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 1903 Robert Engels |
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 1904  1905 Carl Emil Doepler 'The Younger' |
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 1906 George Hamilton Frye |
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 1907 A.W. |
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 1908 Sarah Powers Bradish After Johannes Gehrts |
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 1910 Henry Wadsworth Moore |
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 1912 Stockholm Olympiad |
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 1912 Herbert E. Martini |
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 1914 Artist Unknown Curry-Holton Reader |
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 1914 Rosemary Carr in World Stories for Children |
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 1916 Rhonda Campbell Chase |
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 1920 Sheffer  1920 |
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 1925 Amy Cruse |
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 1926 Carl Johan Bonnesen Thor at War with the Jötuns Grounds of Glud & Marstrand, Odense, Denmark |
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 1928 R.B. Haberstock |
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 1930 Charles H. Brock |
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 1930 Wolfgang Ortmann |
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 1931 Louis Moe Thor's Chariot and Heimdall |
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 Date Unknown, O. Theuer |
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 1938 Wilhelm Petersen |
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 1950 Dagfin Werenskiold |
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 1967 Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
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 1979-2009 Peter Madsen |
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 1990s Walt Simonson Marvel Comics |
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  1993 Gillian McClure (2 Images) |
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 1994 Alexander Koshkin |
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 2003 Manfredi Toraldo & Sergio Tisselli Tarot of the Vikings, The Chariot |
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 2006 Gunnar Karlsson |
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 2007 Ron Randall |
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 2007 Jim Madsen |
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 2007 Hrano Janto |
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 2009 HeroClix Toys |
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   2010-2013 Marvel Comics (3 Images) |
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2013 David Howard Johnson David Howard Johnson.com |
2015 CHRISTINA BALIT
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