Description: Jules
Lamé-Fleury's retelling of the story of Þjálfi
and Röskva and the laming of Þórr's goat differs from Snorri's
account in the Prose Edda. In the Edda, Þórr leaves both goats
behind but in Lamé-Fleury's version he continues his journey by
riding the uninjured goat. In both versions, Þjálfi and Röskva
become Þórr's servants, but, in Lamé-Fleury's retelling, Þórr's
chariot becomes a sleigh and the children have to pull it. The
engraver for the illustration was J.J.
Leroy.
Source: La Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants
Folio or Page: 385
Medium: Not known
Date: 1891
Dimensions (mm): 110 x 60
Provenance:
This copy of La Mythologie, Racontée
Aux Enfants was purchased by Trish Baer from ABE Books
and donated to Special Collections at the University of
Victoria.
P.A. Baer photographed this illustration from her copy of La Mythologie, Racontée Aux
Enfants.
Rights:
Illustrations from the 1891 edition of La
Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants are in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
P. A. Baer notes that this illustration is a variation
on Olaus Rudbeck’s illustration of Disa Riding a Goat in Atland
Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica (223). See:
mnd:AtLnTc-1939-223-01.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Lamé-Fleury, Jules
Raymond. La
mythologie racontée aux enfants. Paris:
Borrani, 1891.
Secondary Sources
Baer,
Patricia
Ann. An Old
Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present.
Diss.
U. of Victoria, 2013.
Web.
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Þórr (non.)
Thor (en.)
In the Prose Edda, Þórr is the son of Óðinn
and the giantess Jörð. However, in Heimskringla, he is a mortal.
Mythological Persons
Röskva (non.)
Roskva (en.)
In the Prose Edda, Röskva and her brother
Þjálfi are the children of a farmer that Þórr stays with on one of his
journeys. Þjálfi is responsible for the laming of one of Þórr´ goats and
as a result the two siblings become Þórr´s servants in order to appease
his anger.
Þjálfi (non.)
Thjalfi (en.)
In the Prose Edda, Þjálfi and his sister
Röskva are the children of a farmer that Þórr stays with on one of his
journeys. Þjálfi is responsible for the laming of one of Þórr´s goats
and as a result the two siblings become Þórr´s servants in order to
appease his anger.
