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Víðarr Slaying Fenrir

Víðarr Slaying Fenrir
  • Creator: Lorenz Frølich 1820-1908
  • Description: Víðarr avenging the death of Oðinn at Ragnarök by killing the wolf Fenrir. This scene is from the Eddaic poem Vafþrúðnismál in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
  • Source: Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
  • Folio or Page: 48
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1895
  • Dimensions (mm): 130 x 90
  • 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.
  • Identity Number: AldEdGud-1895-048-01
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Eddukvæði, Poetic Edda   Gjellerup, Karl   Frølich, Lorenz   Ældre Eddas Gudesange   Víðarr, Vidar   Vafþrúðnismál, Lay of Vafthrudnir   Ragnarök, Ragnarok   Fenrir   Fenris   Fenrisúlfr, Fenris Wolf   úlfr, wolf   The Battle of Ragnarök  

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Creatures: animals, birds, monsters etc.

Fenrir (non.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.
Fenris (non.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.
Fenrisúlfr (non.) Fenris Wolf (en.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.

Gods and Goddesses

Víðarr (non.) Vidar (en.) The son of Óðinn and the giantess Gríðr. It was foretold that he would avenge Óðinn´s death at the Battle of Ragnarök by killing the Fenris Wolf. He not only killed the wolf but survived the Battle.

Myths

The Battle of RagnarökThe myth concerning the final great battle between the gods and the giants.

Mythological Events

Ragnarök (non.) Ragnarok (en.) The final great battle between the gods and the giants.

Nouns

úlfr (non.) wolf (en.)

Source Materials:

Eddukvæði Poetic 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.