War between the Aesir and Vanir by Emil Doepler 1905

"On the host his spear | did Othin hurl,
Then in the world | did war first come;
The wall that girdled | the Gods was broken,
And the field by the warlike | Wanes was trodden."

-Völuspá  23

Emil Doepler illustration from Walhall: Die Götterwelt der Germanen (The Gods of the Teutons) 1905

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Source:

https://boudicca.de/site/de/gmedia-album/emil-doepler/

http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/DOEPLERART.html

 

Quote:

http://www.voluspa.org/voluspa21-25.htm

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