Skadi, Hunting her Passion, Revenge Her Goal

Nothing pleased the Jotunn Skadi more then to be hunting while skiing in the snows of her beloved mountains. Yet, Skadi, Goddess of Winter Skiing, Bowhunting & Hunting, is one of the most powerful mountain Jotunn. When angered is not a woman to trifle with. 

When the gods of Asgard killed her father after he had captured the goddess Idunn (see: World Historyprof: My Golden Apples Restore Youth for more on this story), Skadi took up her wargear and set out to take bloody revenge on the gods.

After fighting her way to Asgard, the gods attempted to smooth her anger through the time-honored traditions of offering Skadi reparations for her loss. Skadi refused their offer of gold, jewels and other riches and countered with two demands to sedate her lust for revenge. First, the gods must make her laugh and second, she be allowed to choose one of the gods as her husband!

                                                     

Loki was able to fulfill Skadi's first demand with an act that was both embracing and humorous. The gods then allowed Skadi to choose one of the gods for her mate. But she had to choose her male only by looking at their feet, as the rest of the god's bodies were hidden behind a curtain. While she did choose the most beautiful feet, she was surprised to find that they belonged to one of the oldest gods, the Vanir, Njord the God of Sea and Winds. So, a goddess of the mountains was wed to a god of the seas, a marriage of opposites that seemed doomed to fail, but that is another tale. (see World Historyprof: Love So Close Yet So Far)

Skadi is a plastic piece 70mm (2.76 in.) that I painted last week.

Utgarda-Loki, Master of Illusion

Utgarda-Loki (Loki of the Outyards), Jotunn (frost giant) leader and master of the Juotunheimr fortress of Utgaror, is also one of the most powerful users of illusion in the Nine Worlds.

Even the gods Thor and Loki have fallen prey to Utgarda-Loki spells.

In one famous case, Utgarda-Loki challenged Thor, and Loki (accompanied their servants Roskva & Thjalfi) to a series of difficult tasks.

After the two gods failed in every challenge, Utgarda-Loki releveled he had used his illusion powers to fool and defeat the Asgardians.

Thor, always short tempered, was so angered at being tricked decided to us his might hammer, Mjolnir, to kill Utgarda-Loki only to find that the Jotunn was but an illusion.

Thor then vented his anger on Utgarda-Loki's fortress, which also promptly disappeared as it too was nothing more than a phantasm.

Having the last laugh over the frustrated god, Utgarda-Loki, easily escaped their rage and failed attempts at revenge and went back to his true fortress. Here he plans further tricks on the pesky gods, until the time of Ragnarök when he plans to destroy them once and for all.

I painted this plastic Utgarda-Loki piece earlier this month.

Jotunn Will DESTROY the Gods of Asgard!

Fyrnir, a Frost Jotunn, is one of the many children of Ymir the First Born.  

The Frost Jotunn are Demon like Giants of massive strength and a deep hatred of the Gods of Asgard who were responsible for the murder of Ymir and countless Jotunn.

Jotunheim is the home of the Jotunn such as Asgard is the home of the Gods and Midgard the land of Humans. 

All Jotunn know that when Ragnarök comes they will march on Asgard and destroy the Gods and their lands.

Till then they will challenge, fight, grow stronger and stoke their hatred for the Gods and all that worship them.

Jotunn revenge will be both cold and heartless, for genocide begets genocide!

I painted Frost Jotunn Fyrnir, in February. 

Mother of Monsters of Ragnarok

The Jotunn Angrboda (She Who Brings Grief), whose very name put fear into the hearts of even the greatest Gods, birthed the three deadliest and most horrific monsters in the Norse World.

Her three greatest children were conceived through her joining with the God Loki. All so fearsome that the gods of Asgard banished them,but did not destroy them.

For they were the massive World Serpent Jormungard, Fenrir the terrible Wolf willing to swallow the World and Hel, the ruler of Helheim-the land of the dead, were from that coupling.

Angrboda bore countless lesser monsters, all for the final battle of Ragnarok. 

Darkness, Chaos and Base Primal Forces are both her playthings and powerful weapons. She relishes the thought of using her powers and children to destroy the Gods when the final the conflict of Ragnarok comes. Till then, she waits and dreams of destruction.

Angrboda is a plastic piece I painted earlier this month.