This illustration from Once a Week is
in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
This poem was based on a German folk tale regarding Wodan's Wild Hunt. Source:
Wägner, W, and F Tegetmeyer. Asgard and the Gods: Tales and
Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors: Told for Boys and Girls.
London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1880. See pages 67-68.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources:
Millais, John Everett.
Master Olaf (From the German). Once a Week, Series 1 3:55, 14 July 1860.
Secondary Sources:
Millais, John
Everett. Master Olaf (From the
German). Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry
Project, Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team.
Edition 0.98.8beta, University of
Victoria. 18th March 2024
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.
Richard Wagner in The Ring of the Nibelung
based Wotan on Óðinn.
Nouns
Victorian (en.)The
Victorian era began with the reign of Queen Victoria and ended with her
death (June 20, 1837 – January 22, 1901).
Source Materials:
Digital Victorian Periodical PoetryDVPP
Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry explores the poetry most read in
the long Victorian period: poems published in periodicals, magazines,
and newspapers dating from 1817 to 1901.
Once a Week (en.)
Launched by Bradbury and Evans, the publisher of Household Words,
after their split with Dickens, Once a
Week (1859-1880) was a weekly middle-class family magazine
that prominently featured illustrations.(Digital Victorian Periodical
Poetry website)
Source Persons
Millais, John
Everett (en.)
Nationality: British
Occupation: Painter and illustrator. One of the founders of the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
b. 8 June 1829
d. 13 August 1896
