Version 2.5 takes care of updating overlooked items that were not
addressed in the previous release.
See Version 2.4 below for major updates to MyNDIR's site such as the
Humanities Computing and Media Centre: MyNDIR Poster (2023-08-14)
and the new Dissemination page.
Added links and page reference numbers in Research Notes for illustrations
in Asgard Stories that were
based on illustrations from Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden.
Deleted the frontispiece from Legends of
Norselands (en.) because we are just starting work on the images from
that book.
Added a Dissemination page to
MyNDIR's site for MyNDIR's contribution to the further dissemination of
Norse mythology through exhibitions, conference presentations, posters, and
creative responses to MyNDIR's images such as needle felting.
Added 10 images of Trish Baer's needle
feltings to the Dissemination page and linked them to the images in MyNDIR that
inspired them, and also linked the original illustrations to the needle
felted renderings.
Added posters and recent presentations to the Dissemination page.
Wrote a brief biography note for the author of Children of Odin, Ernest
Edwin Speight (6 December, 1871 - 17 September, 1949).
Wrote a brief "Disambiguation Note" to distinguish Speight's Children of Odin
published in 1901 from Padriac Colum’s The Children of
Odin published in 1920.
Added a Research note to Erik Werenskiold's illustration of The Death of Erling in regard
to the Nobel Prize winner, Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930). Werenskiold based his illustration
of Erling on Fridtjolf.
Changed "Anonymous" to "Artist Not Known" and created xml:ids for each
source so that clicking on "Artist Not Known" in Search Filters will bring
them all up. There are currently 60 items whose artists are not
known.
Added keywords for the myths: the Battle of Ragnarök and the Wooing of
Gerðr.
Added links for titles etc. for the items in the* earlier versions on the
What's New page.
What's New in Edition 2.3 (2022-07-18)
Corrected a typo for Charles Altamont Doyle's death date in
keywords.
See "What's New in Edition 2.2" below for recent additions of
illustrations etc. on 2022-06-21.
What's New in Edition 2.2 (2022-06-21)
Asked UVic's Advanced Research Services to digitize the 1930 edition of
The Heroes of Asgard for MyNDIR's E-resouces
page.
Added 85 illustrations by Charles E. Brock
from The Heroes of Asgard (1930)
Added 5 illustrations by Charles Altamont
Doyle from The Heroes of Asgard (1857)
Added "Research Note" for the illustrations in The Heroes of Asgard (1857)
regarding Ken Baitsholts' discovery that the illustrator was Charles
Altamont Doyle.
Revised keywords for The Heroes of Asgard to
identify the year of the editions, i.e., the
first edition in 1857 illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle; the second edition in 1870 illustrated by
Louis Huard; and the third edition in
1930 illustrated by Charles E. Brock.
Completed the requirements to make the site Endings Compliant to ensure
long term digital sustainability.
Began the MyNDIR-IDG Project, funded by an SSHRC Insight Development
Grant, in the fall of 2020 to add Victorian/Edwardian illustrations from
retellings of Norse Mythology to the site.
Revised the “About” page and included a new “About Us” section with a link
to the new MyNDIR Team page.
Added a “What’s New in MyNDIR?” page to give detailed version updates and
linked it to the “About” page.
Revised the information concerning artistic "Medium" for items whose
method of creation is difficult to discern, e.g., different types of
engraving.
Added 57 illustrations from four books: 5
illustrations from The Heroes of Asgard,
first published in 1857; 11
illustrations from Norse Stories, Retold from the
Eddas, first published in 1882; 6
illustrations from In the Days of Giants;
and 33 illustrations from The Elder or Poetic Edda (1908).
Added paratextual images such as the
book cover for Norse Stories: Retold from the
Eddas and the title
page for The Elder or Poetic Edda.
Added early print reviews in "Research notes, early print reviews, etc."
for The Heroes of Asgard, first published in 1857;
Norse Stories, first published in 1882; In the Days of Giants, first published in 1901; and
The Elder or Poetic Edda (1908).
Added information pertinent to individual illustrations in "Research
notes, early print reviews, etc.", i.e., Louis Huard’s illustrations in the
1908 edition of the The Heroes of Asgard (p. 195),
and W. G. Collingwood’s illustrations in The Elder or
Poetic Edda (pp. 113, 276, and 277).
Added new e-book links to “E-resources" for the books we have been working
on. Also added the United States to the list of countries in order to
include links to Norse Stories and In the Days of Giants.
Added links to "External Links" at the bottom of Wikipedia pages for
MyNDIR images, e.g., Thor.
Created a Flickr account for the MyNDIR-IDG Project.