Jakob
Sigurðsson
(is.)
Jakob
Sigurdsson
(en.)
b. 1727
d. 1779
Nationality: Icelandic
Jokob was a tenant farmer, poet, scribe, and illustrator, who created
full-page Eddaillustrations in hand-copied
paper manuscripts in Iceland in the eighteenth century.
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir is The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he is a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he is a god.
Bölverkr (non.)
Bolverk (en.)
One of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins
heiti.
Baugi (non.)
Suttungr's brother, who hired
Snorri
Sturluson
(is.)
b. 1179
d. 1241
Nationality: Icelandic
Snorri was an Icelandic statesman, scholar, and author who is credited
with writing Heimskringla, The
Prose Edda, and possibly Egil's
Saga.
Ólafur
Brynjólfsson
(is.)
Brynjolfsson,
Olafur
(en.)
b. 1713
d. 1765
Nationality: Icelandic
Occupation: priest
Residence: Kirkjubær (farm) in Hróarstúnga, Norður-Múlasýsla, Northern
Iceland
The priest whose family fostered Jakob Sigurðsson.
Mead of Poetry Myth
The mead of poetry myth begins with the war between the two groups of
gods known as the Æsir and the Vanir.
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century prose work concerning Old Norse
mythology and poetics.
Nks 1867 4to
A hand-copied paper manuscript from 1760 that was produced in
north-eastern Iceland and contains a set of sixteen full page
illustrations from Snorri's Edda, plus four
other illustrations, all of which were created by Jakob
Sigurðsson.