Þórr Fishing for Miðgarðsormr
- Creator: Jakob Sigurðsson 1727-1779
- Description: Þórr and the giant Hymir fishing for Miðgarðsormr. This scene is from Gylfaginning in Snorri's Edda.
- Source: SÁM 66
- Folio or Page: 79v.
- Medium: ink drawing on paper with coloured ink wash
- Date: 1765
- Dimensions (mm): 135 x 165
- Provenance:
The last page of the manuscript lists three names which likely represent the earliest owners of SAM 66: Gísli Gíslason (1797 - 1758) from Skörð in Reykjahverfi; St. Petersen, who has not been identified; and Magnús Guðmundsson, a farmer at Sandur in Aðaldalur. Magnús' daughter, Elín Sigríður emigrated to Canada in 1876 and took the manuscript with her. Elín Sigríður's farm near Gimli, Manitoba was called Melsted which also became the family's surname in Canada.The Icelandic counsel to Minnesota, Örn Arnar, bought the manuscript from one of Elín Sigríður´s descendents, Ken Melsted in Wynyard, Saskatchewan and donated it to the Ární Magnússon Institute in Iceland on February 2, 2000.The manuscript is now known either by the title Melsteð Edda or by its shelf mark SÁM 66 4to.
- Rights:
Images from SÁM 66 are displayed with permission from the Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum in Iceland. Link to E-manuscript Description. E-manuscript illustrationf. 79v.
- Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Reykjavik: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum. SÁM 66. 1765. Hand copied paper manuscript.Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.Driscoll, Matthew. The view From the North: Some Scandinavian digitisation projects Review of the National Center for Digitization. 4 (2004): 22 - 30.Sigurðsson, Gísli. The Last Manuscript Home? The Manuscripts of Iceland. Gísli Sigurdsson and Vésteinn Ólason . Reykjavik: Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, 2004. 179 - 186.Simek, Rudolf. Angela Hall . Dictionary of Northern Mythology. W Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. - Identity Number: SAM66-079v
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