Description: This illustrated title header is from a retelling of Old Norse
mythology, Asgard Stories: Tales
from Norse Mythology (1901), by Mary H.
Foster and Mabel H.
Cummings. The header is for
"Tyr and the Wolf" and depicts the god Týr holding a sword and
shield.
Source: Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse
Mythology
Folio or Page: 15
Medium: not known
Date: 1901
Dimensions (mm): 90 x 50
Provenance:
This illustration is from Asgard Stories:
Tales from Norse Mythology from the collection of P. A.
Baer.
Rights:
This illustration from Asgard Stories: Tales
from Norse Mythology is in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
S. Dunn Krahn notes that this illustration is a copy of "Tyr the
Sword-God" by Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder' in the 1882 edition of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden
(162).
Trish Baer notes that Týr is standing over a warrior that he has slain
in Doepler's original.
Bibliography:
Editions
Foster,
Mary, and
Mabel
Cummings. Asgard
Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology. New
York: Silver, Burdett and Co,
1901.
Dunn-Krahn,
Sage (en.)
b. 13th July 1999
Occupation: Research Assistant
Artist Not Known
Artist Not
Known
Artist not known for this illustration in Asgard
Stories
Gods and Goddesses
Týr (non.)
Tyr (en.)
The god who put his hand in the mouth of the wolf Fenrir as pledge
that the gods were not really trying to bind the wolf but were only
testing his strength. Fenrir bit off Týr's hand when they succeeded in
binding him.
Myths
Binding of Fenrir Myth
This myth relating the story of how the gods managed to trick the wolf
Fenrir into letting them bind him with a magic fetter. They fail with a
fetter called Leyding and another called called Dromi but succeed with
one called Gleipnir. Unfortunately, the god Týr had put his hand in
Fenrir´s mouth as a guarantee that the gods were not trying to trick
Fenrir into being bound. Fenrir bites off Týr´s hand when he realizes
that he has cannot break the fetter.
Nouns
Edwardian (en.)The
Edwardian era began with the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910
(January 22, 1901 - 28 July, 1914). However, the era's end date is
sometimes extended to the beginning of World War 1 (28 July
1914).
Source Materials:
Asgard Stories (en.)
Children's book by Mabel Cummings and Mary Foster published in
1901.
Source Persons
Cummings,
Mabel (en.)
Nationality: English
b. 28 Mar 1872
d. 24 August 1962
Occupation: Childrens book writer.
Nationality: American
Mabel Homer Cummings lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as
Boston and Cambridge. She was born on the 28th of March, 1872 in
Cambridge, and died on the 24th of August, 1962 in Brookline. She lived
with her sister, the horticulturalist and ornithologist Emma G.
Cummings. She was a school teacher and the headmistress and co-founder
of the high school Brimmer and May, where Cummings Hall is named after
her. She graduated from Smith College in 1895. She was almost certainly
a founding member of the College Club of Boston, the first women’s
college club in the United States, and bought the building at 76
Marlborough in 1893.
Foster,
Mary (en.)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Childrens book writer and schoolteacher.
b. 19 Dec 1848
d. 27 Oct 1914
