Needle felted rendering of <title level="a">Illustrated Title Header for Saint Ólafr´s Saga by Trish Baer 2.51 MB This digital image is from Trish Baer's Needle Felting Collection. The University of Victoria 2023 Victoria, B.C., Canada

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 DIS-PAB-SKng-1899-Oslo-189-01-Hdr I initially needle felted the title in this piece but was never satisfied with how it looked as part of the scene. It is interesting to compare this needle felting to the one based on an unpublished sketch in the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway - NG.KH.B7100. I did felt the title in the piece based on the unpublished sketch. Trish Baer's needle felted rendering of <title level="a">Illustrated Title Header for Saint Ólafr´s Saga 2017-05-07 Inspired by Gerhard Munthe's illustration on page 189 in Gustav Storm's 1899 edition of Kongesagaer Victoria Trish Baer’s Needle Felting Illustrated Title Header for Saint Ólafr´s Saga Needle Felter Trish Baer 1952- wool 349 241

Trish Baer based this needle felting on Gerhard Munthe's illustrated title header depicting King Óláfr Haraldsson confronting the pagan gods is from Olav den heillges Saga, the eighth saga in Kongesagaer, in Gustav Storm's Norwegian translation of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. See Research Notes below for information relevant to the needle felting. See Munthe's original illustration here. 349 241 Needle felted with wool and silk on a piece of material from a woolen blanket.

Created by Trish Baer. 2017-05-07

Trish Baer based this needle felting on Gerhard Munthe's illustrated title header depicting King Óláfr Haraldsson confronting the pagan gods is from Olav den heillges Saga, the eighth saga in Kongesagaer (1899).

This needle felting piece is the Collection of P. A. Baer.

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="#HmsKr"/> </item> <item> <title ref="#OH"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#GerMun01"/></item> <item> <name type="monster" ref="#MidOrm01"/> </item> <item> <name type="monster" ref="#JrMnGr01"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#OlfHrDs01"/></item> <item> <persName ref="#ThoR01"/></item> <item> <term type="artifact" ref="#serpent01"/> <term ref="#felted01"/></item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item><persName><forename>Trish</forename> <surname>Baer</surname></persName> <date when="2017-09-03">2017-09-03</date>: photographed by <persName ref="#PAB01"/>.</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/DIS-PAB-Skng-1899-Oslo-189-01-Hdr.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="2491px" height="3354px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc/> <!-- We are no longer using FigDesc. The description is in the TEI Header in decoDesc. --> </figure> </div> </body> <back> <div type="bibliography"> <listBibl> <head>Primary Sources</head> <!-- Storm 1899 --> <bibl xml:id="Hms-Trans-Storm-1899"><author><name><surname type="patronym">Sturluson</surname>, <forename>Snorri</forename></name></author>. <title/> <title level="m">Kongesagaer. Translated by Gustav Storm, Kristiania: J. M. Stenersen, 1899.
The MyNDIR Team Baer, Trish Adjunct Professor in Medieval Studies; Digital Scholarship Fellow in the Electronic Texts and Culture Lab; editor and MyNDIR-IDG (Insight Development Grant) Team Leader Creatures: animals, birds, monsters etc. Jörmungandr Jormungand A monstrous serpent who is the progeny of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. This serpent is also known as Miðgarðsormr and, in English, the Midgard Serpent. Miðgarðsormr Midgard Serpent A monstrous serpent who is the progeny of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. This serpent is also known as Jörmungandr and in English as the Midgard Serpent. Gods and Goddesses Þórr Thor Donner

In the Prose Edda, Þórr is the son of Óðinn and the giantess Jörð. However, in Heimskringla, he is a mortal.

Richard Wagner based Donner in The Ring Cycle on Þórr.

 Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc. Óláfr Haraldsson Olaf Haraldsson The Norwegian king whose saga makes up one third of Heimskringla. He became a saint one year after he died in 1030. According to Heimskringla, he died at the Battle of Stiklestad. Nouns needle felted A 2D or 3D felted item produced with a barbed needle and unspun fibre. ormr serpent Source Materials: <ref target="HmsKr.xml">Heimskringla</ref> History of the Kings of Norway This account of the history of the kings of Norway and is generally believed to have been written by Snorri Sturluson in Iceland in 1230. It begins with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, who were the subject matter of the skaldic poem Ynglingtal, and ends with the reign of the Norwegian king, Magnus Erlingson (died 1184). <ref target="OH.xml">Óláfs saga helga</ref> Olav den heillges Saga Saint Óláfs Saga This is the eighth saga in Heimskringla. <ref target="SKng-1899.xml">Kongesagaer (1899 ed.)</ref> The first edition of Gustaf Storm's Norwegian translation of Heimskringla. Of the two hundred and twenty illustrations for the 1899 edition Werenskiold drew fifty-seven, Krohg forty- seven, Wetlesen forty-three, Egedius thirty-seven, Munthe twenty-seven, and Peterssen eight. Source Persons Munthe, Gerhard 1849 1929 Norwegian illustrator Oslo Munthe was one of the main illustrator's for Gustav Storm's editions of Kongesagaer in 1899 and 1900. Snorri Sturluson 1179 1241 Icelandic Snorri was an Icelandic statesman, scholar, and author who is credited with writing Heimskringla, The Prose Edda, and possibly Egil's Saga.