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Published: 2017-10-28 22:08:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 4912; Favourites: 171; Downloads: 155
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Nidhogg is a dragon/serpent that gnaws at the root of the world tree Yggdrasil.Ratatosk - a squirrel gossip, analogue of mythical mobile communication, runs down the tree and up. She endure scolding from Nidhogg the Great Eagle and back.
My illustration for "Mythbook 2" project. Autor's interpretation of norse mythology.
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That is an interesting interpretation of Nidhögg. Never before seen him portrayed similar to an Asian dragon.
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This is a collective image of dragons European illustration of the 13-17 centuries.
It was difficult for me to create an image based on this illustration. norse-mythology.org/wp-content…(I assumed that there was fur on his neck. Initially, the color of the fur was supposed to be as in the picture, but later I made it brown.)
Therefore, I used paintings from the 15-17th century, and also used the color from picture from Wikipedia.
In the early images, there is fur and a dog's head, but later dragons are associated mainly with snakes and lizards.
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True, most older dragons have a more wolf-like appearance. I honestly can't say I've seen many others take cues from ancient and medieval dragons, so my mind first went to the the hairier types of Asiatic dragons.
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There were also several versions of Nidhögg, two of them can be seen here. And in the future I want to return to work with old sketches of more unusual images of Nidhögg. (I did not publish these sketches on the net)
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lol careful what you call dragon bro.. there are dragon zealot all aroung ready to tell you how "it's not a dragon! it's a wyv.. er.. I mean a .; er.. THING!"
Also Ratatoskr is supposed to be male..
And I LOVE the muscles on Nidhos arm
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