Description: Þórr, wearing
a crown and seated on a throne while holding a sceptre and an
iconic item representing lightening bolts, with Óðinn on the left in
armour holding a sword and Frigg on the right
holding a sword and a bow.
Source: Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks
Atlantica
Folio or Page: 310
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.
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
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.
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.
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.