Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831 - 1892)
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Peter Nicolai Arbo was a Norwegian painter, who specialized in painting historical motifs and images from Norse mythology.
His most famous paintings are sgrdsreien (1872) and Valkyrien (1865). He actually made two very similar valkyrie paintings. "sgrdsreien" was used as the cover artwork for the 1988 album Blood Fire Death by the Swedish black metal band Bathory.
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