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| Keywords: Loke och Sigyn.jpg This wood engraving is based on a painting by Mårten Eskil Winge It shows the Norse mythological figures Loki and Sigyn Loki is bound and Sigyn holds a cup above his head to protect him from the venom dripping from the snake above In the lower right corner there is the signature of Gunnar Forssell 1859-1903 the xylographer The image list on page 468 in the book describes this image as Loke och Sigyn The image is found on page 158 of Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda; Edda Sämund den vises skaldeverk af fornnordiska myt- och hjältesånger om de götiska eller germaniska folkens gamla gudatro sagominnen och vandringar / öfversättning från isländskan af Fredrik Sander ; med bilder af nordiska konstnärer Stockholm Norstedt I Haukur Þorgeirsson took a picture of that page with a handheld camera My original upload is an unmodified version of that picture and shows not only the image described but also its context My other upload is cropped to the engraving itself and has been color-corrected in GIMP Painting created in 1863 Xylograph created in 1887 <ref>Johannesson Lena 1982 Xylografi och pressbild p 186</ref> published in 1893 Mårten Eskil Winge 1825-1896 and Gunnar Forssell 1859-1903 as described above Photograph by User Haukurth Sander's Edda was published in 1893 placing it in the public domain in the United States More than 70 years have passed since the deaths of both the original artist Winge and the xylographer Forssell securing public domain status in Sweden and much of the rest of the world My rather poor photographic reproduction of the page may be ineligible for copyright but in case it is not I place it into the public domain PD-old Image Ed0018 jpg is a low resolution scan of a reprint Image Loki by Mårten Eskil Winge 1890 jpg is the original painting Notes <references/> Mårten Eskil Winge Sander's Edda Loki Sigyn The Punishment of Loki Engravings by Gunnar Forssell | ||||
