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Midvinterblot is a painting created for the hall of the central staircase in Nationalmuseum in Stockholm by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson in 1915. It is Sweden’s most debated painting.The painting depicts a legend from Norse mythology in which the Swedish king Domalde was sacrificed in order to avert a famine.

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