Description: Óðinn
portrayed as a king. He is wearing a crown and is holding a
long-handled battle axe, a sceptre, and an orb. This
illustration appears opposite the Eddic poem Hávamál.
Source: Lbs 1341 8vo
Folio or Page: 4v
Medium: ink drawing on paper
Date: 1700 - 1799
Dimensions (mm): 950 x 160
Provenance:
Unknown.
Acquired from the Jónatan Þorláksson Collection in Þórðarstaðir,
Fnjóskadal in July 1906.
Rights:
The image from Lbs 1341 8vo is displayed with permission from the Handritasafn Landsbókasafns in
Iceland. Link to E-manuscript.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Reykjavik: Icelandic
National Library. Lbs 1341 8vo. 1700 - 1799 ?. Hand copied paper
manuscript.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Huginn (non.)
One of Óðinn´s pair of ravens that he sends out in the morning to
gather news and whisper it into his ear when they come back. Huginn's
name means "thought."
Muninn (non.)
One of Óðinn´s pair of ravens that he sends out in the morning to
gather news and whisper it into his ear when they come back. Muninn's
name means "memory."
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.
EddukvæðiPoetic Edda
This collection of eddic poems was compiled by an anonymous scholar in
Iceland in the twelfth century. It was for a time mistakenly attributed
to a scholar named Sæmundr hinn fróði (1056–1133) and thus was known as
Sæmundar Edda.
Hávamál (non.)
Sayings of the High One (en.)
A poem from the Poetic Edda that is only preserved in the Codex
Regius. It is actually a combination of several Old Norse poems from the
Viking age and the verses are attributed to Óðinn.
Lbs 1341 8vo (is.)
An eighteenth-century Icelandic paper manuscript containing an
illustration of Oðinn.
