Description: Jules
Lamé-Fleury's retelling of Snorri's Prose Edda
for children. Þórr is wearing a crown and seated on a throne
while holding a sceptre and an iconic item representing
lightening bolts, with Óðinn on the left in armour holding a sword and
shield and Frigg seated on the right. The engraver for the
illustration was J.J.
Leroy.
Source: La Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants
Folio or Page: 361
Medium: Not known
Date: 1891
Dimensions (mm): 110 x 60
Provenance:
This copy of La Mythologie, Racontée
Aux Enfants was purchased by Trish Baer from ABE Books
and donated to Special Collections at the University of
Victoria.
P.A. Baer photographed this illustration from her copy of La Mythologie, Racontée Aux
Enfants.
Rights:
Illustrations from the 1878 edition of La
Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants are in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
P. A. Baer notes that the figure identified as Frigg in
this illustration is modelled on the lowest of the three figures of Odinn seated
on high seats in the Gylfaginning illustration first illustrated in the
manuscript known as Codex
Upsaliensis (f. 26v) circa 1325. See:
mnd:DG11-026v and click on the keyword for Gylfi to see many
other renditions of the Gylfaginning scene.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Lamé-Fleury, Jules
Raymond. La
mythologie racontée aux enfants. Paris:
Borrani, 1891.
Secondary Sources
Baer,
Patricia
Ann. An Old
Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present.
Diss.
U. of Victoria, 2013.
Web.
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Frigg (non.)
Frigg (en.)
The wife of Óðinn and the mother of Baldr.
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir in The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he was a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he was a god.
Þórr (non.)
Thor (en.)
In the Prose Edda, Þórr is the son of Óðinn
and the giantess Jörð. However, in Heimskringla, he is a mortal.
