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Disa Riding a Goat

Disa Riding a Goat
  • Creator: Olaus Rudbeck 1630-1702
  • Description: The legendary Swedish figure Disa fulfilling the dictates of a riddle in order to go and see King Freyr. Freyr had said that she could visit him if she came to him "not on foot nor on horseback, not driving nor sailing, not clad nor unclad, not in a year nor a month, not by day nor by night, not in the moon's increase nor wane" (Thorpe "Northern Mythology 155).
  • Source: Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica
  • Folio or Page: 223
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1939
  • Dimensions (mm): 120 x 92
  • Provenance:
    This copy of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica was purchased by P.A. Baer from AbeBooks.
    P.A. Baer photographed this illustration from her copy of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica.
  • Rights:
    Illustrations from the 1939 edition of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica are in the public domain.
  • Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
    P. A. Baer notes that this illustration appears to be related to the illustration of Thor Riding a Goat in La Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants in Jules Raymond Lamé-Fleury's retelling of the myth involving the laming of Thor's goat (385). See: mnd:Myth-Racont-Enfant-1891-385-01.
  • Bibliography:

    Editions

    Rudbeck, Olaus. Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica: Svenska Originalteksten. Edited by Axel Nelson, På Uppdrag Av Lärdomshistoriska Samfundet, Utg. Av Axel Nelson. Uppsala: Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell, 1939.

    Secondary Sources

    Baer, Patricia Ann. An Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present. Diss. U. of Victoria, 2013. Web.
    Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
    Thorpe, Benjamin. Northern Mythology: Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands. London: E. Lumley, 1851.
  • Identity Number: AtLnTc-1939-223-01
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Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc.

Disa (sv.) The daughter of a Swedish chieftain in a Swedish Saga. The saga is preserved in Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus published by Olaus Magnus in 1554.

Nouns

geit (non.) goat (en.)

Source Materials:

Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica: Svenska Originalteksten (sv.). In this book, Olaus tries to prove that Sweden is the lost Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and that Swedish was the language from which Hebrew and Latin had evolved.

Source Persons

Rudbeck, Olaus b. 1618
d. 1682
Nationality: Swedish
Occupation: scholar, historian, runologist
Residence: Uppsala, Sweden
Olaus tried to prove that Sweden was the lost Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and that Swedish was the language from which Hebrew and Latin had evolved.