Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thor goes fishing

Thor goes fishing

In the spirit of increasing the variety of our featured pictures I'm nominating this one. It's an illustration from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript of the Prose Edda. You can see that even though the manuscript is relatively young the artistic style is quite primitive, medieval even. The god Thor, wielding his hammer, wants to catch the Midgard Serpent. The giant Hymir is afraid. The image appears in a couple of Norse mythology articles, including the one on the Midgard Serpent.

Nominate and support. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 21:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Image page would benefit from a translation of the text in the upper right. —Cryptic (talk) 00:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Right. I'll do it tomorrow. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 00:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done. - Haukur Þorgeirsson

I originally obtained the image here: [1] (zoom in). I think I did a decent job of cropping and enhancing the raw original but I know that many of you are much better at this than I am so there's the source if anyone wants to experiment. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 22:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
( − ) Oppose Has no appeal to me whatsoever. --Fir0002 08:29, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It may illustrate the article and Nordic mythology very well, but as an image by iself, it is not very remarkable.
Comment - Photoshoped this to hell and back. I think I over did it a little. If anyone wants my psd, just ask.-- --(User | Talk | Contribs) 17:42, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
"Thor visits Photoshop." LOL :D It's really keen what you people can do with that tool. It's certainly much cleaner, sharper and more colourful. On the other hand I think the somewhat shabby original look has its appeal too. Interesting contribution, thank you. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 17:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 03:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC) - readded for a short time.[reply]