<rs>Digital image of the illustration on page 35 of <persName ref="#GlrUp01"><forename>Karl</forename> <surname>Gjellerup</surname></persName>'s 1895 edition of the <title level="u" xml:lang="non">Poetic Edda, entitled Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange. 638 KB This digital image is from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange. It is part of an ongoing project that began as a prototype of a digital image repository and webpage, MyNDIR (My Norse Digital images Repository), in P. A. Baer's Interdisciplinary PhD dissertation at the University of Victoria (2006 - 2013). The University of Victoria 2018 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange is in the public domain.

 AldEdGud-1895-035-01 Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange 1895 35 Victoria Special Collections in the McPherson Library at the University of Victoria Óðinn and Frigg author Karl Gjellerup 1857-1919 illustrator Lorenz Frølich 1820-1908 paper 210 297

Óðinn asking his wife Frigg for advice because he intends to go and question the giant Vafþrúðnir. Frigg tries to persuade him not to go but cannot dissuade him. This scene is from the Eddaic poem Vafþrúðnismál in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange. 110 100

This illustration was created by Lorenz Frølich in Copenhagen, Denmark circa 1895 for the 1895 edition of Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.

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 2010.

Call number: PT7234 A2G5

The purpose of my Ph.D. project was to create a prototype for a digital image repository and web page for illustrations of Old Norse gods and heroes from manuscripts and early print sources. The website was launched on June 6, 2013 with one hundred and one illustrations.

In the fall of 2018, MyNDIR became part of the Endings Project in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria. The purpose of the project is to archive websites by creating a static version of a site that can be used independent of the internet. The total number of illustrations in MyNDIR for the Endings Project is 151 as of November 27, 2018. I will continue to add illustrations to the website.

I initially used a Roma Schema with the modules: core, tei, header, textstructure, msdescription, namesdates, certainty, figures, transcr and linking.

All proper nouns for the metadata for the illustrations are marked up with TEI P5 by using: <gi>persName</gi> for beings such as gods, giants, humans, authors, illustrators etc. and <gi>name</gi> for animals, monsters, and artifacts. The <att>xml:id</att>s for proper nouns are always mixed case abbreviations that begin with a capital. The <gi>list</gi> elements always have <att>type</att> and usually have <att>subtype</att> as well. All other TEI tags such as: <placeName/> for places, <orgName/> for archives, and <person/> were used in the manner demonstrated by the TEI P5 guidelines. I use the <att>xml:lang</att> for all of these elements. The keyword items for all proper nouns are linked to further descriptive data in a Names directory (names.xml).

I also create keyword items consisting of simple nouns, which were marked up as <gi>term</gi> to correspond to names of artifacts, animals, and monsters, e.g. Megingjörð = belt, Sleipnir = horse, Jörmungandr = serpent. The keyword items for all simple nouns are also entered in the names.xml file. The <att>xml:id</att>s for simple nouns are not abbreviated, always begin in lower case, are always in English, and are camel back when consisting of more than one word.

The critical approach for the selection of illustrations is focused through the theoretical lens of Material Philology which considers books and their material details, such as covers and illustrations, as cultural artifacts. This selection criteria results in a repository of images that is capable of revealing aspects of book history, culture, and production that the words of the texts alone cannot provide. Consequently, iterations of illustrations with minimal differences are not only included but valued for their research potential, e.g., illustrations from the first and second editions of Kongesagaer.

Old Norse orthography was the preferred representation for all names; however the English orthography was supplied in the keywords for Þōrr for Thor. Old Norse, English and other spellings were recorded in the names.xml file.

The spelling conventions for Old Norse conform to the practice established in An Icelandic-English Dictionary Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon, Guðbrandur Clarendon Press Oxford 1957 , i.e., the stem of the name plus its nominative marker.

 Used to supply editor, author, illustrator etc. English </item> <item> <title ref="#VafMal01"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#GlrUp01"/></item> <item> <persName ref="#FrLch01"/></item> <item> <title ref="#AldEdGud-1895-Ed"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#OdiN01"/></item> <item> <persName ref="#FrGg01"/></item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2010-09-21">2010-09-16</date>: the page containing this illustration was photographed with a Nikon D40 using an AF-SDX ZOOM-Nikko 5mm 3.5 - 5.6 ED II lens.</item> <item> <date when="2019-03-28">2019-03-28</date>: cropped the image and saved it as: PoE-AldEdGud-1895-035-01.jpg - Dimensions: 884 x 842 - 638 KB</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/PoE-AldEdGud-1895-035-01.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="884px" height="842px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc><persName ref="#OdiN01">Óðinn</persName> asking his wife <persName ref="#FrGg01">Frigg</persName> for advice because he intends to go and question the giant Vafþrúðnir. Frigg tries to persuade him not to go but cannot dissuade him. This scene is from the Eddaic poem <title level="a">Vafþrúðnismál in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
Editions <!-- Den -->Ældre Eddas Gudesange. Translated by Karl Gjellerup, Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1895. Secondary Sources Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
Gods and Goddesses Frigg Frigg Fricka

The wife of Óðinn and the mother of Baldr.

Richard Wagner based the guardian of marriage, Fricka, in Der Ring Des Nibelungen on the Norse goddesses Frigg, Lofn, and Vár.

 Óðinn Odin Wotan

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.

Richard Wagner in The Ring of the Nibelung based Wotan on Óðinn.

 Source Materials: <ref target="AldEdGud-1895-Ed.xml"><!-- Den -->Ældre Eddas Gudesange</ref> An edition of the Poetic Edda with illustrations by Lorenz Frølich. <ref target="PoEdda.xml">Eddukvæði</ref> 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. <ref target="VafMal01.xml">Vafþrúðnismál</ref> <!-- The -->Lay of Vafthrudnir A poem from the Poetic Edda concerning the giant Vafþrúðnir. He was challenged to a game of wits with Óðinn because Óðinn wanted to gain knowledge about Ragnarok. Source Persons Frølich, Lorenz Danish Frolich was a painter, illustrator and etcher. Gjellerup, Karl Danish Gellurup was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.