In general, the doom of the gods (or the doom of the gods, or the horn of the sides, or the horn on the doom) in all its glory, roughly coordinated with the texts of the Younger Edda and my all sorts of childhood memories of reading all sorts of interesting Viking books.
I wish I had a two-meter back, I could do it. The fragments are in the descriptions. Men about whom it is not written - well, it is clear, Vikings from Valhalla, young ladies about whom it is not said - Valkyries, of course.
Here's Loki taking the Naglfar ship to the battle of the dead, CD Red Project liked him so much they stuck him in the witcher. It sounds romantically perfect - a ship made of dead men's fingernails. If you died with uncut nails, be kind enough to provide them for the ship. That's why the Scandinavians cut the nails of the dead, and something tells me it wasn't always neat. I am a deeply deep person, so the eyes of the living in the picture are alive and beaming there-sudas, while the dead have black eyes. And Loki, leading the ship, can be seen to be nervous and worried - it's obvious that the death of the gods is not quite according to his plan. Although he is a character and deeply offended and quite ambiguous - for example, he married the giantess Angbroda (which is not particularly rare, everyone has such acquaintances), and she gave birth to a serpent Joomungand (which lies on the equator and from Thor pomre, but it is in further posts), the wolf Fenrir (which in general then the sun is eaten), and Hel - which played somehow Galadriel and which is either a girl or a vision (well about it also later, she is at the bottom of the picture). In general, if the giantess did not cheat, it would be interesting to look at Loki's spermatozoa in the microscope.
The ice giants from Jotunheim get their asses kicked by the Ases, well, it is clear here too - big blue men. I think the ice giants in Scandinavian mythology came from their visits to the Novgorod region, where you can still meet a lot of big blue men.
Yes, the perimeter is Yomungande. Instead of the picture frame.
here we have Odin, who is bitten in half by Fenrir, the wily wolf and the main Scandinavian anti-hero. Odin is traditionally one-eyed. To peer simultaneously into the world of the dead and the world of the living. He has an iPhone 4S sticking out of his pocket, because Odin is not shaved.
In the next fragment, the Valkyries. One pokes Loka in the genitals with his spear, because Ragnarök is no place for sentimentality. The second maiden is squeezed by the giant from Jotunheim with his fist like a tube of paste (this is, in fact, a deep allusion to "Kinder und Hausmaerchen" by the Grimm brooders, where the boy fooled the giant), because the misogynist stinking pig dork, the bearer of the age-old oppression of chromosomes, is cursed and damned.
Farther in part falls Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged magical horse. Having gone broke on horseshoes, Odin may not mind being bitten by Fenrir himself.
There's also Hati and Sköl at different ends of the canvas. They are small wolves - sons of Fenrir. One gnaws on the Moon, the other on the Sun - but they could catch up with the heavenly bodies only at Ragnarok, before that they ran in vain.
In addition to the main characters, the topometry (I coined that word, by analogy to the water in your diploma and filling in the timeline in the extended version) is filled with various just Vikings, at times drawn in different stylistics - well, that's because there are a lot of people who made it to Valhalla, at different times.
You can also see the center of the picture, where Thor rips out Yomungandu's tongue, from which he furiously sprays venom (Thor will get lulies from this, after all). Some brave boy in a fancy hat stabs Fenrir's genitals with an axe. Well, that's just to say that it's actually all canon, but no one promised it was by the book.
Einherians (this is the permanent population of Valhalla, warriors, fallen in battle) by habit decided to get drunk, because in Valhalla to sit and sour is your direct duty, and for eternity you kind of manage to get used to this state of affairs. And then the Valkyrie comes in with her crane operator demeanor to disperse the drunken assholes into combat positions... And the one in the back, yeah, looks suspiciously like a potty-mouthed, non-wari witch.
Next, Thor rips out Jömungand's tongue, himself covered in poison, but it is impossible to shake his resolve. On the right, Thor is handed his Mjellnir Magni, Thor's son - the only one besides his father who can lift the hammer. The next fragment is just two Vikings, looking puzzled at the fight - because in any normal fight there are such dudes.
A pretty big part of Ragnarok is Heimdall blowing his Hjallarhorn, the golden horn that he uses to summon the gods and all the positive characters to battle the negative ones. I'm not Marvel, so my Heimdall is not black. And the runes are all on Gjallarhorn - real Scandinavian, honestly redrawn from wikipedia.
The next miniature - Vikings, slightly embarrassed, watching the striptease of Heli, another offspring of Loki, the ruler of the kingdom of the dead. Well, it's classic - drunken father, difficult childhood, nervous job, breakdown, webcam, louboutins and pylon. And hair in all directions. in the Marvel version she was played by Electric Drill, ie Cate Blanchett - 4/10. Tried to fix it.
The man with the face of an old disillusioned porn actor is the giant Surt, who, unlike his colleagues from the upper part of the canvas, is a giant of fire, not ice. In fact, he will stop Ragnarok once and for all by slamming his sword down on the whole disco.