Óðinn and Vébjörg at The Battle of Brávellir

Óðinn and Vébjörg at The Battle of
                                Brávellir

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Gods and Goddesses

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.

Events: Historical

Battle of Brávellir (non.) Battle of Bravellir (en.)
A legendary battle described in Saxo's Gesta Danorum and elsewhere in eddaic poetry and several sagas.

Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc.

Starkaðr (non.) Starkad (en.) A legendary warrior who appears in many sources including Saxo’s Gesta Danorum (c. 1204) and Olaus Magnus’s Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555).
Vébjörg (non.) Vebjorg (en.) A shield maiden in Saxo's Gesta Danorum who died at the Battle of Brávellir. She is the shield maiden in Louis Moe's Valkyrien who becomes a Valkyrie.

Source Materials:

Danmarks Kronike (da.) Gesta Danorum (la.) This edition of Saxo's Gesta Danorum was translated and published by Fr. Winkel Horn and illustrated by Louis Moe. Moe recycled some of his illustrations from Winkel Horn's edition of Noreges konge-sagaer.
Gesta Danorum (la.) Saxo Grammaticus's thirteenth century prose work concerning Danish mythology and history.
Valkyrien: Romantisk Digtning (da.) Valkyrie: An illustrated romance (en.) Louis Moe's illustrated retelling of the life and death of the legendary Danish shield maiden Vébjörg.

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.
Saxo Grammaticus (la.) b. 1150
d. 1220
Nationality: Danish
Occupation: cleric
Saxo wrote the Gesta Danorum, which is known in English as The History of the Danes . His account of mythological Norse gods and heroes is heavily euhemerized.