Description: Dagr and
Skinfaxi falling in the sky after the wolf Sköll has
swallowed the sun. This scene is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning.
Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
Folio or Page: [62]
Medium: Not known
Date: 1929
Dimensions (mm): 140 x 170
Provenance:
Gift of Estate of Richard Beck to Special Collections at the
University of Victoria. This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange was photographed by
P. A. Baer in August 2011.
Call number: NE962 N67M64
Rights:
This illustration from Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning is in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
Some of the illustrations in Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning have two digit numbers, along with Louis Moe's name,
within the illustration. This one has the number 27, possibly indicating the
year 1927.
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.
Skinfaxi (non.)
The horse ridden by Dagr, the personifacation of Day. Skinfaxi's
shining mane lights up the sky and earth.
Sköll (non.)
The wolf who pursues Dagr and his horse Skinfaxi across the heavens.
Gods and Goddesses
Dagr (non.)
A personification of Day in the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, in
both sources said to be the son of the god Djellingr. Dagr's horse is
called Skinfaxi.
Mythological Events
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
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.
