About the work

A closer look.

Half of her is a living woman holding a lantern. The other half has been dead a long time already. At her feet her hound Garmr is chained to the stone with blood on his muzzle, the dog who howls at the mouth of her cave until the end of the world. In the poems she is Hel, daughter of Loki, given one realm to rule and told to take everyone who dies of sickness or old age, and nobody argues with her about it. Marvel calls her Hela and gives her a crown of antlers. This is the poem's queen, split down the middle, with the hound that keeps her door. One JPG that prints clean at 20x16 in. The telling gives you the poem's queen, not the film's crown: half alive, half long dead, and Garmr chained at her door. Print it yourself, or take the file to any print shop and ask for 20x16. It is the same picture either way.