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St. Sebastian and a Bishop Saint, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines (active at Delft ca. 1480-1495)

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Classic illustrations of Freyja requesting the Brísingamen from the dwarves. The Brísingamen, or Brising’s necklace, was attested in the Þrymskviða (Poetic Edda), in which the necklace breaks from around Freyja’s neck due to her anger and is then put around Thórr’s neck to disguise him as a bride, the Húsdrápa (skaldic poem partially preserved in Snorri’s Prose Edda), in which the Brísingamen is stolen by Loki on Óðinn’s orders and later retrieved by Heimdall, and the extended Saga of Olaf Tryggvason, as told in the pretty heavily christianized Flateyjarbók manuscript, which tells how Freyja buys the necklace from its dwarf owners by spending a night with each of them.

“Wrathful was Freyja, | and fiercely she snorted,

And the dwelling great | of the gods was shaken,

And burst was the mighty | Brisings’ necklace:

‘Most lustful indeed | should I look to all

If I journeyed with thee | to the giants’ home.’”

Þrymskviða - The Lay of Þrym, stanza 12.

“When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace forged by four dwarves named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer, she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them. She came home afterward with the necklace and kept silent as if nothing happened. But a man called Loki somehow knew it, and came to tell Odin. King Odin commanded Loki to steal the necklace, so Loki turned into a fly to sneak into Freyja’s bower and stole it.”

The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur translation (1916)

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Viking

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gutyerrez art, st. sebastien

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Owe Zerge St. Sebastian

Oil on canvas, 170,5 x 64 cm, ca. 1933-35

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The Dying Saint Sebastian (detail),1789 by François-Xavier Fabre

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Saint-Sebastian Healed By Saint-Irene (1640-1645) by Antonio De Bellis

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‘Saint Sebastian’, c.1925 by Owe Zerge (1894-1983). Swedish artist, painter of portraits and figures, flower pieces, landscapes and nudes. oil on canvas.

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Loki

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Giovanni Colacicchi, Saint Sebastian, 1943