Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
A pencil drawing of “The Knife Wrestlers” (Swedish ; Bältespännarna, literally “The belt binders”) a sculpture in the style of Romantic nationalism created by the Swedish sculptor Johan Peter Molin in the middle of the 19th century.
It depicts two men involved in a fight with knives. The sculpture was Molin’s breakthrough work and was for some time well known in Europe. Multiple copies of the sculpture were made.
The sculpture allegedly references a mythological style of duel called spänna bälte (“to bind the belt”), in which two men fight each other while bound together with a belt. The origins of this myth are unclear, as no reliable historical sources are known for it. The sculpture furthermore contains elements of Nordic (pre-)history, including the use of runes and verses from the Poetic Edda.
