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Oðinn Consulting the Seeress

Oðinn Consulting the Seeress

  • Creator: Lorenz Frølich 1820-1908
  • Description: Óðinn consulting an unnamed seeress, who tells him about the creation of the world, its destruction in the battle of Ragnarök, and the aftermath of the battle when the earth will be reborn. This scene is from the Eddaic poem Völuspá, The Prophecy of the Seeress, in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
  • Source: Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
  • Folio or Page: 8
  • Medium: lithograph
  • Date: 1895
  • Dimensions (mm): 115 x 85
  • Provenance:
    Gift of Estate of Richard Beck to Special Collections at the University of Victoria. This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange was photographed by P. A. Baer in August 2011.
    Call number: PT7234 A2G5
  • Rights:
    This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange is in the public domain.
  • Bibliography:

    Editions

    • Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange. Translated by Karl Gjellerup, Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1895. Print.

    Secondary Sources

    • Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Print.
  • Identity Number: AldEdGud-1895-008-01
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EdduKvæði, Poetic Edda   Gjellerup, Karl   Frølich, Lorenz   Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange   Völuspá, The Prophescy of the Seeress   Óðinn, Odin   Gungnir   spjót, spear   völva, seeress, völva, seeress  

Editions

  • Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange. Translated by Karl Gjellerup, Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1895. Print.

Secondary Sources

  • Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Print.
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.)