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.
Gylfi (non.)
A king in Ynglinga Saga, the first saga in
Heimskringla, who promises
Gefjon a ploughshare of land. He plays a much larger role in Snorri's
Edda when he decides to try and discover if
Óðinn and his followers are men or gods.
Gangleri (non.)
This is the name that King Gylfi used when he went to question Óðinn
and the men who came with him from Asia to see if they were gods or
sorcerers.
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.
Þriði (non.)
Third (en.)
This is one of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins
heiti.
Jafnhárr (non.)
Just-as-high (en.)
This is one of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins
heiti.
Hárr (non.)
High (en.)
This is one of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins
heiti.
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.
Deluding of Gylfi
This myth is part of the story that Snorri uses to frame one of the
three sections of his Edda and is an essential
part of his attempt to use euhemerization as an explanation for the
origin of the belief in pagan gods.
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.