Description: Trish Baer based this needle felting on Charles
E.
Brock’s illustration in the 1930 edition
of Annie
Keary's retelling of Norse mythology,
The Heroes of Asgard (1857). The book is
divided into nine stories beginning with the Creation Myth and ending with Ragnarök. The stories are further divided
into parts which have illustrated headers and illustrated capital
letters. This header illustration in Story V: "Iduna's Apples" for Part
II: “The Winged Giant“ depicts Loki
carrying stolen pies past a foxes' den. The foxes praise him and call him
"king of thieves." (135) See Brock’s original illustration here.
Source: Trish Baer's needle felted rendering of Loki the Pie
Thief
Folio or Page: Inspired by C.E.Brock's
illustration in Annie
Keary's 1930 edition of The Heroes of Asgard.
Medium: Needle
felted with wool on a piece of material from a woolen
blanket.
Date: 2021-03-04
Dimensions (mm): 260 x 160
Provenance:
This needle felting piece is from the Collection of P. A. Baer.
Rights:
All Rights Reserved
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Keary,
Annie, and
Eliza
Keary. The
Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology.
London: Macmillan and Co.
Limited, 1930.
Baer,
Trish (en.)
b. 25th January 1952
Occupation: Adjunct Professor in Medieval Studies; Digital Scholarship
Fellow in the Electronic Texts and Culture Lab; editor and MyNDIR-IDG
(Insight Development Grant) Team Leader
In Norse mythology, Loki is counted among the gods but he is a
giant by birth.
InThe Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner
created Loge by combining the figure of Loki, who is counted to be among
the gods in the Prose Edda, with the giant
Logi,who is the presonification of fire in the myth concerning Þórr´s
Journey to the Court of Útgarða-Loki.
Myths
Creation Myth
A series of myths concerning the creation of the world, the origins of
the gods, and the creation of humans.
Mythological Events
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
Nouns
needle felted (en.)
A 2D or 3D felted item produced with a barbed needle and unspun
fibre.
Source Materials:
Heroes of
Asgard (1930 ed.) (en.)The third illustrated edition of The Heroes of Asgard was published in 1930 and was
illustrated by C. E. Brock.
Source Persons
Brock, Charles
E. (en.)
b. 5 February 1870
d. 28 February 1938
Nationality: English
Occupation: painter, line artist and book illustrator
Keary,
Annie (en.)
b. 3rd March 1825
d. 3rd March 1879
Nationality: English
Occupation: Novelist, poet, and childrens book writer.
Anna Maria Keary, known as Annie Keary, was an English novelist, poet,
and children's writer. Her sister Eliza Keary collaborated with her in
writing “The Heroes of Asgard” that was first published in 1857 and many
times thereafter.
