Description: Fig. XXXII depicts: the Swedish King Gylfi, who is in
disguise as Gangleri, presumably in the presence of
Óðinn, who
is represented in three forms as Þriði, Jafnhárr, and
Hárr. This
scene is from the
Deluding of Gylfi in Gylfaginning in Snorri's Edda. The
illustration is situated amongst other illustrations containing
"triple crowns."
Source: De Antiquis Verisque Regni Sueciae Insignibus
Liber Singularis
Folio or Page: 318[g]
Medium: lithograph
Date: 1678
Dimensions (mm): 180 x 210
Provenance:
This copy of De Antiquis Verisque
Regni Sueciae Insignibus Liber Singularis is in the Rare
Book collection of Det Kongelige Bibliotek.
P.A. Baer photographed this illustration in De Antiquis Verisque Regni Sueciae Insignibus
Liber Singularis with the permission of Det Kongelige
Bibliotek.
Rights:
Illustrations from the 1689 edition of De
Antiquis Verisque Regni Sueciae Insignibus Liber Singularis are
in the public domain.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Schefferus,
Johannes. De Antiquis Verisque Regni Sueciae Insignibus Liber
Singularis.Holmiae: Excudit
Nicolaus Wankiif,1678.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Hárr (non.)
High (en.)
One of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins
heiti.
Jafnhárr (non.)
Just-as-high (en.)
One of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins heiti.
Jafnhárr means Just-as-High.
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir in The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he was a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he was a god.
Þriði (non.)
Third (en.)
One of Óðinn´s many names that are collectively known as Óðins heiti.
Þriði means Third.
Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc.
Gylfi (non.)
A king in Ynglinga Saga, the first saga in
Heimskringla, who promises
Gefjon a ploughshare of land. He plays a much larger role in Snorri's
Edda where he decides to try and discover
if Óðinn and his followers are men or gods.
Myths
Gylfaginning (non.)
Deluding of Gylfi (en.)
Part of the story that Snorri uses to frame one of the three sections
of his Prose Edda. It is not a myth, but is an
essential part of Snorri's attempt to use euhemerization as an
explanation for the origin of the belief in pagan gods.
Mythological Persons
Gangleri (non.)
This is the name that King Gylfi used when he went to question Óðinn,
and the men who came with him from Asia, to see if they were gods or
sorcerers. It is also one of the many names of Óðinn that are known as
Óðins heiti.
Source Materials:
Prose Edda (is.)
Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century prose work concerning Old Norse
mythology and poetics.
Source Persons
Schefferus, Johannes
b. 1621
d. 1679
Nationality: Swedish
Occupation: scholar, historian, runologist
Residence: Uppsala, Sweden
Schefferus was Professor Skytteanus of eloquence and government at
Uppsala University.
Snorri
Sturluson (is.)
b. 1179
d. 1241
Nationality: Icelandic
Snorri was an Icelandic statesman, scholar, and author who is credited
with writing Heimskringla, The
Prose Edda, and possibly Egil's
Saga.
