Gjellerup,
Karl (da.)
b. 1857
d. 1919
Nationality: Danish
was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1917.
Frølich, Lorenz
(da.)
b. 1820
d. 1908
Nationality: Danish
was a painter, illustrator and etcher.
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir in The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he is a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he is a god.
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
EdduKvæði
Poetic Edda
This collection of eddic poems was compiled by an anonymous scholar in
Iceland in the twelfth century. It was for a time mistakenly attributed
to a scholar named Sæmundr hinn fróði (1056–1133) and thus was known as
Sæmundar Edda.
Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
An edition of the Poetic Edda with illustrations by Lorenz
Frølich.
Völuspá
The Prophescy of the Seeress
The first poem in the Poetic Edda.
völva (non.)
seeress (en.)
Gungnir (non.)
Óðinn's spear whose name means "swaying one."
spjót (non.)
spear (en.)
völva (non.)
seeress (en.)