Description: This illustration is from the half-title page in Louis Moe's
Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning. The figure in the shape of the
letter "K" is Bragi, who
is named as the god of poetry in Snorri's
Edda.
Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
Folio or Page: [1]
Medium: pen and ink
Date: 1929
Dimensions (mm): 12.2 x 13
Provenance:
Gift of Estate of Richard Beck to Special Collections at the
University of Victoria. This illustration from Ragnarok was photographed by P. A. Baer on May
5 2024.
Call number: NE962 N67M64
Rights:
This illustration from Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning is in the public domain.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Moe,
Louis Maria Niels Peder
Halling. Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning. København, A.F.
Høst, 1929.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Simek,
Rudolf.
Angela
Hall
. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. W
Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer,
2007.
Bragi (non.)
The god of poetry, who is married to Iðunn.
Mythological Events
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
Source Materials:
Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning (da.)
Louis Moe's illustrated retelling of the Battle of Ragnarok and the
events that preceded it.
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.
