Wonder Woman's latest DC art showcases a Norse-inspired origin, with Valkyrie armor and Thor-like appearance. Artist Julian Totino Tedesco's variant cover transforms Diana into a Valkyrie warrior.

In Renaissance art, they are often depicted as beautiful ... In Norse sagas and Viking histories, Valkyries are beautiful, but also bloodthirsty. They reveled in the gore of the battlefield ...

As Robert Blumetti observes in The Norse Gods and Their Myths ... we can locate part of the Valkyries’ transformation in later centuries to art. As the Romantic movement swept across Europe ...