Muren

Valhalla #14

by Peter Madsen, Mikael Tegebjer (Translator)

Muren baseras på kvädet Skírnismál, där guden Frej skickar ut sin tjänare Skirner på friarstråt till jättarnas land Utgård. Dessutom flätas myten om hur Loke blev mor till Odens häst Sleipner, hämtad ur Snorres Edda, in i handlingen.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Danish

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Peter Madsen is a drawing artist and illustrator, an author, a filmmaker and a lecturer. He was born on 12 May, 1958 in the city of Århus, Denmark. As a boy he moved around Denmark with his family until they settled down in the city of Roskilde. Peter Madsen had his first strips published at the age of fifteen, then chose to study medicine. During the years 1980-84 this was his main occupation until he gave up his studies to be able to concentrate on directing the animated feature film Valhalla. He is probably best known for the series of comic albums called Valhalla (1979 -), humourous comics about the gods of Norse mythology. You can read the history of Valhalla here. In 1995, Peter Madsen published The Son of Man, a graphic novel of 136 pages in water colour, based on the four Gospels in the New Testament. In 1999, he contributed to the interpretation of The Book of Job by publishing an expressive graphic story for adults, The Story of Job. In cooperation with Johannes Møllehave, Peter Madsen wrote Signe's Christmas (2003), which is a familiy book on Christmas, illustrated by Peter Madsen. In 2004, Peter Madsen published a new interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Story of a Mother" in the form of a graphic novel called The Story of a Mother, based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen, in water colour and gouache. In 2008, Peter wrote and illustrated The Journey to Jersualem, a book about Easter. In 2009, the first books in the picture book series, Troll Life were published. Troll Life is co-created by Peter Madsen and his wife, Sissel Bøe. So far 9 books have been published.
On top of this range of comic albums and graphic novels, Peter Madsen has created a lot of artwork for book and LP/CD covers, posters and illustrations for magazines and periodicals, newspapers and associations; storyboards,T-shirt designs, stamps and murals. He has illustrated several books, among them the Troll Story, (Troldehistorien) by Henning Kure (1989, rhymes by Rune Kidde) and the School Bible by Bodil Busk Sørensen from 2000. Peter Madsen is also a prolific lecturer. Over the last fifteen years, he has given more than 700 lectures. He is married, lives in Silkeborg, Denmark, and has two children and two step-children.

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's the wall dude.. Wall is important, it needs to be in place, at any cost..

Book #30 of 2021..

[The_Mad_Swede · Rating 4 out of 5]

Den nästsista volymen av Peter Madsen underbara Valhall-serie baserad på nordisk mytologi. I det här albumet får vi följa Tors skyddsling Tjalve när han ska genomföra sitt mandomsprov, som inte riktigt blir ett som han tänkt sig. Dessutom kastar Madsen för nöjes skull in historien om hur Oden fick sin åttafotade häst, Sleipner. Liksom tidigare volymer är detta fruktansvärt underhållande läsning och något som jag rekommenderar varmt både till folk intresserade av nordisk mytologi och de som uppskattar klassisk fransk-belgiska serier á la Asterix.

Med vetenskapen om att det femtonde albumet kommer att bli det sista är det inte utan att man ser fram emot det med både spänning och ett visst vemod. Varmt rekommenderad!

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

beautiful illustrations which also shows the difference settings of udgård and asgård. An alright story but for some reason not as good as the others