Description: Óðinn saying
farewell to the corpse of Baldr with the gods in the background. Óðinn is
holding his spear Gungnir, and Þórr is standing
while resting his hammer Mjöllnir on his shoulder. The figure
riding a wolf in the upper right hand corner is Hyrrokkin, who is
coming to push Baldr's funeral boat off shore. This scene is
from the Eddaic poem Hyndluljöð in Karl
Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas
Gudesange.
Source: Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
Folio or Page: 285
Medium: Not known
Date: 1895
Dimensions (mm): 130 x 105
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.
Gungnir (non.)
Óðinn's spear whose name means "swaying one."
Mjöllnir (non.)
Mjollnir (en.)
Þórr's hammer that returns to his hand after he throws it.
Giants and Giantesses
Hyrrokkin (non.)
The giantess who was summoned to push Baldr's funeral ship off of the
shore because the gods were not strong enough. She arrived riding on a
wolf and using snakes for reigns.
Gods and Goddesses
Baldr (non.)
Balder (en.)
The god who was killed by his brother Höðr.
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.
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.
Hyndluljóð (non.)
Song of Hyndla (en.)
This Eddaic poem is not part of the Codex Regius manuscript and is
found only in the late 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript.
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.
