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Óðinn Teaching the Art of War

Óðinn Teaching the Art of War
  • Creator: Louis Moe 1857-1945
  • Description: Óðinn teaching the Art of War to Haraldr Hilditönn, in Book Seven of Saxo's Gesta Danorum. This illustration is from Fr. Winkle Horn's Danish edition, Danmarks Kronike.
  • Source: Danmarks Kronike
  • Folio or Page: 297
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1898
  • Dimensions (mm): 110 x 92
  • Provenance:
    This copy of Danmarks Kronike was donated to the MacPherson Library at the University of Victoria by Ejnar Dohlmann. It contains a bookplate acknowledging his gift on the inside of the front cover and his signature is on the bottom of the blank page that precedes the first of two title pages.
    Call number: DLL47 S3 1898
    P.A. Baer photographed this copy of Danmarks Kronike.
  • Rights:
    Illustrations by Louis Moe in the 1898 and 1939 editions of Danmarks Kronike came into the public domain on January 1, 2017.
  • Bibliography:

    Editions

    Saxo (Grammaticus). Danmarks krønike. Edited by Fr. Winkel Horn, Copenhagen: A. Christiansens Kunstforlag, 1898.

    Secondary Sources

    Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
  • Identity Number: DnKrn-1898-UVic-07-297-01
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Saxo Grammaticus   Danmarks Kronike, Gesta Danorum   Gesta Danorum   Moe, Louis   Óðinn, Odin   Haraldr Hilditönn, Harald Wartooth  

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Gods and Goddesses

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.

Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc.

Haraldr Hilditönn (non.) Harald Wartooth (en.) A legendary king of Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the 8th and 9th century.

Source Materials:

Danmarks Kronike (da.) Gesta Danorum (la.) This edition of Saxo's Gesta Danorum was translated and published by Fr. Winkel Horn and illustrated by Louis Moe. Moe recycled some of his illustrations from Winkel Horn's edition of Noreges konge-sagaer.
Gesta Danorum (la.) Saxo Grammaticus's thirteenth century prose work concerning Danish mythology and history.

Source Persons

Moe, Louis (no.) b. 1857
d. 1945
Nationality: Norwegian/Danish.
Occupation: illustrator
Residence: Copenhagen
Moe was an illustrator who was born in Norway but became a Danish citizen in 1919.
Saxo Grammaticus (la.) b. 1150
d. 1220
Nationality: Danish
Occupation: cleric
Saxo wrote the Gesta Danorum, which is known in English as The History of the Danes . His account of mythological Norse gods and heroes is heavily euhemerized.