These are haunting and the folklore behind it was fascinating to learn about, thank you for sharing!

Excellent choice of works to share with the world. Just a note: the top one among the various trolls is actually Draugen (also referred to as a sea troll), an undead spectre or revenant of a sailor who died and drifted away at sea, never to be buried in Christian soil. Seeing one would be a very ill omen of certain doom for seafarers.

Why is this Theodor using my likeness repeatedly like that??

so cozy yet do unsettling

Great name for a cat

These are lovely! The Pesta ones look like Fromsoft used them as inspiration for Bloodborne.

That thumbnail was the perfect intro, because my eye started at the top, moved to the buildings, and then to the person…YIKES!

Made me want to see more, and I was nicely rewarded with beautiful work.

These drawings have a special place in my heart, they enchanted me as a kid and I love coming back to them as an adult

Thanks for sharing, very cool work and new to me. Reminds me of the work of John Bauer, similarly unsettling and awesome. I’m no expert on Scandinavian folklore but assuming there’s some crossover in terms of subject matter here.

For the uninitiated the site below has a good overview of his work.

www.artpassions.net/bauer/bauer.html