Description: Óðinn asking
his wife Frigg
for advice because he intends to go and question the giant
Vafþrúðnir. Frigg tries to persuade him not to go but cannot
dissuade him. This scene is from the Eddaic poem Vafþrúðnismál in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas
Gudesange.
Source: Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
Folio or Page: 35
Medium: Not known
Date: 1895
Dimensions (mm): 110 x 100
Provenance:
Gift of Estate of Richard Beck to Special Collections at the
University of Victoria. This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange was photographed by
P. A. Baer in August 2011.
Call number: PT7234 A2G5
Rights:
This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas
Gudesange is in the public domain.
Bibliography:
Editions
Ældre Eddas
Gudesange.
Translated by
Karl
Gjellerup,
Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens
Forlag, 1895.
Secondary Sources
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.
Source Materials:
EddukvæðiPoetic Edda
This collection of eddic poems was compiled by an anonymous scholar in
Iceland in the twelfth century. It was for a time mistakenly attributed
to a scholar named Sæmundr hinn fróði (1056–1133) and thus was known as
Sæmundar Edda.
Vafþrúðnismál (non.)
Lay of Vafthrudnir (en.)
A poem from the Poetic Edda concerning the giant Vafþrúðnir. He was
challenged to a game of wits with Óðinn because Óðinn wanted to gain
knowledge about Ragnarok.
Ældre Eddas
Gudesange (da.)
An edition of the Poetic Edda with
illustrations by Lorenz Frølich.
Source Persons
Frølich,
Lorenz (da.)
b. 1820
d. 1908
Nationality: Danish
Frolich was a painter, illustrator and etcher.
Gjellerup,
Karl (da.)
b. 2nd June 1857
d. 13th October 1919
Nationality: Danish
Gellurup was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1917.
