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Víðarr and Fenrir

Víðarr and Fenrir
  • Creator: Louis Moe 1857-1945
  • Description: Víðarr and the body of Fenrir. This scene is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.
  • Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
  • Folio or Page: [28]
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1929
  • Dimensions (mm): 180 x 160
  • 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.
  • Identity Number: RagRokEnBil-1929-UVic-078-01
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Moe, Louis   Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning   Ragnarök, Ragnarok   Víðarr, Vidar   Fenrir   Fenris   Fenrisúlfr, Fenris Wolf   úlfr, wolf   The Battle of Ragnarök  

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Creatures: animals, birds, monsters etc.

Fenrir (non.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.
Fenris (non.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.
Fenrisúlfr (non.) Fenris Wolf (en.) One of the names for the monstrous wolf who is one of the three monstrous offspring of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.

Gods and Goddesses

Víðarr (non.) Vidar (en.) The son of Óðinn and the giantess Gríðr. It was foretold that he would avenge Óðinn´s death at the Battle of Ragnarök by killing the Fenris Wolf. He not only killed the wolf but survived the Battle.

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.

Nouns

úlfr (non.) wolf (en.)

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.