Louis Moe

[1][3] Among his paintings are Portrettgruppe (portrait group) from 1887, Jætteætt (1888), Bondepige fra Norges Vestkyst (farmer girl from the West Coast of Norway) from 1891, and Drageoffer (Dragon victim) from 1894.

[2] From 1897 he regularly spent several months every year at his summer farm Juvlandsæter in Vrådal in Kviteseid, Norway, and Telemark was an important source of inspiration for his artistical work.

[2] Solveig Muren Sanden from Vrådal, one of the first significant female Norwegian comics illustrators, was guided by Moe as a young girl.

[4] Moe's illustrations of classical literature include an 1898 edition of Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, the Old Norse Poetic Edda, and works by Johan Herman Wessel and Ludvig Holberg.

[3] Among his mythological works is the illustration of Tvermose-Thyregod's Oldemoders Fortælling om Nordens Guder (Great grandmother's story of Norse Gods) (1890), Ragnarok.

The giant Utgarthilocus , chained in the cave. From an 1898 edition of Saxo Grammaticus ' chronicles ( Gesta Danorum ).