Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Eagle Carries off Idun and Her Apples
A great eagle lifts a flowing-robed woman above the watching figures below. The adjacent tale follows Loki’s deception of Idun and her abduction with the apples that preserve the gods’ youth.
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E. Boyd Smith. "The Eagle Carries off Idun and Her Apples" [editorial title]. In In the Days of Giants, Abbie Farwell Brown. Houghton Mifflin edition, copyright 1902, 1902, Houghton Mifflin Company. Source scan leaf 83. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0477-0074
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E. Boyd Smith. The Eagle Carries off Idun and Her Apples. In the Days of Giants. Scan leaf 83. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0477-0074