Dissemination
Dissemination
MyNDIR documents the transmission and reception of Old Norse mythology and
history by providing digital images of illustrations from manuscripts and early
print sources. The site acts as a resource and research tool for scholars and
members of the public with an interest in Old Norse culture. MyNDIR's images
generate further transmission and reception as is evident in the items listed
below such as exhibitions, conference presentations, posters, and creative
responses.
Cell Phone Interface
Patrick
Szpak, web designer at Humanities Computing
and Media Centre, created MyNDIR's cell phone interface in 2021.
Community
- You can follow us for posts on individual images and social media updates on: Facebook - Instagram - Bluesky.
- Event: Myndir images used in slideshow for Vikings Vixens & Valkyries. March 23rd 2024, Edilweiss Club, Victoria, B.C.
- Lecture at Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney, B.C.: The Victorian Retellings of Viking Mythology: A Mythological Makeover for the UVic on the Peninsula Program. Nov. 7, 2023.
- UVic Speakers Bureau Guest Lecture: Valkyries and Vikings and Mermaids! Oh my! for Capital City Volunteers, Victoria, B. C., Canada. Feb. 16, 2023.
- Handout on Louis Moe for the Valkyries and Vikings and Mermaids! Oh my! lecture(see above).
- UVic Speakers Bureau Guest Lecture: A Viking Voyage: Trading, Raiding or Emigrating? for a French Immersion grade eight class at the Ecole Journey Middle School in Shirley, British Columbia. November 17, 2020.
Digitized Resources in Vault: Norse Mythology Collection
Welcome to Vault, the digital
asset management system used by UVic Libraries to store and provide access to
digitized materials both from the rare and unique holdings in Special
Collections and University Archives and from UVic Libraries’ project
partners.
Exhibition 2024: The Vanquished Viking Gods: Lost, Found, and Assimilated
January 22nd - February 5th, 2024 - Mearns
Centre for Learning - McPherson Library
Curated by Dr. Trish Baer and Michael Lines
MLS
Co-sponsored by the Department of Medieval Studies
Discover the beginning of the downward journey of the Viking gods
from deities in Valhalla—to heroes in storybooks for Victorian
children—to pedagogical figures in homeschooling lesson plans.
This exhibition concerns the 19th - 20th century retellings of Old
Norse mythology and is focused on The Heroes of
Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its
Story by Annie and Eliza Keary that was first published
in 1857. The Heroes of Asgard has been published in three editions,
i.e., 1857, 1870 and 1930, with changes in its title and different
illustrators for three of the editions.
- N.B.: This pdf for the 20 large posters in the exhibit has a very large file size. Exhibition Posters: The Vanquished Viking Gods: Lost, Found, and Assimilated. Please note that the posters and ephemera can also be viewed MyNDIR's Albums on Flickr. See Flickr Albums below for a list of MyNDIR's albums.
- Four Trifold Brochures (with different images of gods and goddesses on the back).
- Table Display Poster: The Fate of the Viking Gods
- Table Display Poster: “The Deluding of Gylfi” Illustration and Snorri’s Framing Story
- Table Display Poster: Queen Victoria's Viking Heritage
Exhibition 2020: Visualizing the Vikings and Their Gods
January 17th - February 1st, 2020
Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson
Library
Curated by Dr. Trish Baer and Michael Lines
MLS
Co-sponsored by the Department of Medieval
Studies
Flickr Albums
Link to all of MyNDIR's Albums on Flickr:- Ældre Edda Gudesange (Poetic Edda). Illustrated by Lorenz Frølich.
- Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology (1901). Illustrated by an unacknowledged artist.
- Children of Odin (1903). Illustrated by Frederic Lawrence and W.G. Collingwood, as well as an unacknowledged artist.
- Exhibition 2024: The Vanquished Viking Gods: Lost, Found, and Assimilated.
- Heroes of the Norselands: Their stories retold by Katharine F. Boult (1903). Illustrated by T. H. Robinson.
- In the Days of Giants (1930). Illustrated by Elmer Boyd Smith.
- Kongesagaer (1899 and 1900 eds). Illustrated by Erik Werenskiold, Gerhard Munthe, Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krohg, Eilif Peterssen and Wilhelm Wetlesen
- MyNDIR: Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Illustrations Illustrated by various artists.
- Lightning Talk: Extending MyNDIR’s Multimodality: Viking Gods, Needle Felting, and Knowledge Dissemination
- Norse Stories, Retold from the Eddas (1901). Illustrated by George Hand Wright.
- Land of Enchantment (1907). Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
- Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning (1929). Illustrated by Louis Moe.
- Saxo's Danmarks Kronike/Gesta Danorum (1898). Illustrated by Louis Moe.
- The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly Known as Sæmund's Edda (1908). Illustrated by W. G. Collingwood.
- The Heroes of Asgard (1857). Illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle.
- The Heroes of Asgard (1908). Illustrated by Louis Huard.
- The Heroes Of Asgard (1930). Illustrated by Charles E. Brock.
- Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands (1871). Illustrated by W. J. Weigand.
Interviews
- Morgunblaðið, Reykjavik, Iceland. 2015/06/02. Daglegt líf (p. 10 -11). Vestur-Íslendingurinn Trish “Hefur óbilandi áhuga á Íslandi og norrænni goðafræði”
Needle Felting
- Freyja at the Entrance of the Iron Wood
- Loki's Flight to Jötunheimr
- The Power of the Harp
- The Giant Skrymir
- Loki the Pie Thief
- Óláfr Haraldsson on a Viking Expedition
- Þórr´s Trip to the Court of Útgarða-Loki
- Miðgarðsormr
- Queen Ragnhild's Dream
- The Death of Erling
- Illustrated Title Header for Saint Ólafr´s Saga
- Unpublished Illustrated Title Header for Saint Ólafr´s Saga
Posters and Presentations
- Humanities Computing and Media Centre: MyNDIR Poster (2023-08-14)
- Conference Paper (pdf): Trish Baer. Individuality and Iconography: Jakob Sigurðsson’s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v in Á Austrvega. Saga and East Scandinavia: Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Saga Conference Uppsala Sweden 9th – 15 th August 2009. Ed. Agneta Ney. Gavle: Gavle University Press, 2009: 62-70. Print.
- Handout for Individuality and Iconography paper.
- Interactive Poster (pdf): Trish Baer. The Strange Case of Charles Altamont Doyle and The Heroes of Asgard (1857). DH+BH: an Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Humanities and Book History (online). September 22-24, 2022. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Interactive Poster (pdf): Trish Baer. The Demons are in the Details: Charles Altamont Doyle and The Heroes of Asgard (1857). Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2022 (online). Jun 6, 2022 – Jun 10, 2022. University of Victoria.
- Poster (pdf): Sage Dunn-Krahn. Inter-Pictorality in Late 19th - Early 20th Century Illustrations of Norse Mythology. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2022 (online). Jun 6, 2022 – Jun 10, 2022. University of Victoria.
- Presentation (pdf): Trish Baer. Reshaping the Shapeshifter: Óðinn’s Victorian Makeover. Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada Annual Meeting (online). May 16 – 19, 2022. Web.
- Presentation (pdf): Trish Baer. Modifying Mjöllnir: The Consequences of Re-Imagining Old Norse Mythology. Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada Annual Meeting (online). May 31 – June 3, 2021. Web.
- Poster (pdf): Trish Baer. Historical, Mythological, Pedagogical: MyNDIR and Illustrations of Norse Mythology. The 15th International Saga Conference: Sagas and the Use of the Past. August 5th - 11th, 2012 Aarhus University
Resources for Learning and Teaching
- Concept Map: Trish
Baer
Concept Map: Norse Mythology
Sources
Created in a course redesign workshop for Medi 360 "Old Norse Gods and Heroes" in 2007.
- Notes for Medi 360 (2006): Trish Baer Prose Edda: Content Guide
- Notes for Medi 360 (2006): Trish Baer Prose Edda: Synopsis and Notes
- Notes for Medi 360 (2006): Trish Baer Poetic Edda: Gods
- Notes for Medi 360 (2006):Trish Baer Poetic Edda: Heroes
- Notes for Medi 360 (2006): Trish Baer Loki's Character and the Death of Baldr.
- Handout for Uppsala Conference paper (2009): Trish Baer Stemma for The Deluding of Gylfi illustration.