Jun 27, 2025
The Valkyre's Vigil
Artist: Edward Robert Hughes (British, 1851-1914)
Date: 1906
Medium: Watercolour and gold paint on Whatman paper
Collection: Private Collection
Description
The Valkyrie’s Vigil shows one of Odin’s war-maidens who, in Scandinavian mythology, hovered over battlefields selected those warriors who were to die and conducted them to Valhalla.
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