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An image presenting the trickster Loki giving Sif newly-made gold-spun hair. Loki was an entity in Norse mythology who was involved in misdeeds against multiple gods and mortals. One of them was cutting off the golden hair of Sif, the goddess...

Hel, the Norse Queen of the Underworld imagined by user Mkasahara published on 24 June 2019. Hel was a female character in Norse mythology who ruled the realm of the dead of the same name. Her kingdom was said to be a hopeless, gloomy and...

Hel, the Norse Queen of the Underworld, as portrayed by the Australia-based artist Tara Ryzebol in 2006. Hel was a female character in Norse mythology who ruled the realm of the dead of the same name. Her kingdom was said to be a gloomy and...

An artist's impression of how the Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts, aka 'Black Bart' Roberts (c. 1682-1722) may have looked. Roberts was one of the most successful pirates of the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. He was killed resisting arrest...

The Norse Goddess Sif as imagined by English artist John Charles Dollman in the illustration of page 64 of Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A., Harrap, London, 1909. The figure in the background is usually...

Statue of the Norse Goddess Idunn (Ydun) by Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen, c. 1858. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Bloodofox. Idunn was a goddess of fertility who held the fruit of eternal...

Map of the territories allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel according to the Book of Joshua, chapters 13-19, before the move of Dan to the North. Note that these territories were only allegedly allotted to said tribes, and the texts...

Mosaic of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Givat Mordechai Etz Yosef synagogue facade, Ha Rav Gold street, in Jerusalem. Top row: Reuben, Judah, Dan, Asher Middle: Simeon, Issachar, Naphtali, Joseph Bottom: Levi, Zebulun, Gad, Benjamin

Hermod Before Hela, illustration of the god Hermod kneeling before Hel, Norse goddess of the dead in the realm of Hel by English artist and illustrator John Charles Dollman, published in Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber...

Statue of a Valkyrie pouring mead by Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen, 1835. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Bloodofox. The work depicts the Valkyrie tending to the warriors in the afterlife...