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The Death of Vébjörg

The Death of Vébjörg
  • Creator: Louis Moe 1857-1945
  • Description: The death of Vébjörg at the Battle of Brávellir in Book Eight of Saxo's Gesta Danorum. This scene is from Fr. Winkle Horn's Danish edition, Danmarks Kronike.
  • Source: Danmarks Kronike
  • Folio or Page: 314
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1898
  • Dimensions (mm): 125 x 140
  • 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 scanned this image from the copy of Danmarks Kronike in Special Collections in the MacPherson Library.
  • 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-08-314-01
  • Download size: 2.2 MB
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Saxo Grammaticus   Danmarks Kronike, Gesta Danorum   Gesta Danorum   Moe, Louis   Vébjörg, Vebjorg   Battle of Brávellir, Battle of Bravellir  

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Events: Historical

Battle of Brávellir (non.) Battle of Bravellir (en.)
A legendary battle described in Saxo's Gesta Danorum and elsewhere in eddaic poetry and several sagas.

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

Vébjörg (non.) Vebjorg (en.) A shield maiden in Saxo's Gesta Danorum who died at the Battle of Brávellir. She is the shield maiden in Louis Moe's Valkyrien who becomes a Valkyrie.

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.