Description: Freyr riding
his boar Gullinbursti during the Battle of Ragnarök. This scene
is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning.
Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
Folio or Page: [74]
Medium: Not known
Date: 1929
Dimensions (mm): 180 x 142
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 28, possibly indicating the
year 1928
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.
Gullinbursti (non.)
Sliðrugtanni (non.)
This great boar was one of the three magical items made by the dwarves
Brokk and Eitri, the sons of Ívaldi, at the request of Loki when he
needed to appease the gods after he cut off Sif's hair. Loki gave
Gullinbursti to Freyr to pull his chariot and it could run over the
earth and through the air. Its golden bristles shone so that it could
find its way day or night. Gullinbursti was also known as
Sliðrugtanni.
Gods and Goddesses
Freyr (non.)
A fertility god and one of the Vanir. He is the son of Njörðr and the
twin brother of Freyja.
Myths
The Battle of
RagnarökThe myth concerning the final great battle between
the gods and the giants.
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.
