<rs>Digital image of the illustration on page 88 of <persName ref="#AFBrwn01"><forename>Abbie F</forename> <surname>Brown</surname></persName>'s childrens book <title xml:lang="en" level="m">In the Days of Giants. 1 MB This digital image is from In the Days of Giants. The University of Victoria 2021 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from In the Days of Giants is in the public domain.

 DysGnts-1930-088-01 Early Print review of the first edition of In the Days of Giants: "There are six illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, which are delightful reproductions of the quaint conceits of these old legends." (The Washington Post 7). Web. 20 November 2021. In the Days of Giants 1930 88 Victoria Collection of P.A. Baer The Treasures of the Gods author Abbie F BrownAugust 21, 1871-March 5, 1927 illustrator Elmer Boyd SmithMay 31, 1860-October 5, 1943 paper 120 175

This scene is from the 1930 edition of Abbie F Brown's In the Days of Giants.This illustration by E. Boyd Smith is from a Victorian era retelling of the making of The Treasures of the Gods. The myth begins when Loki cut off Sif’s golden hair while she is sleeping. Sif’s husband, Þórr, threatens to break every one of Loki’s bones unless he replaces her hair with golden hair made by the dwarves. The dwarves known as the Sons of Ivaldi make the golden hair along with the spear Gungnir and the ship "Skíðblaðnir. Loki wagers his head that the dwarves, Brokkr and Eitri, cannot make three treasures as good the ones made by the Sons of Ivaldi. Loki loses the bet, but not his head, when Brokkr and Eitri produce the boar Gullinbursti, the ring Draupnir, and Þórr’s hammer Mjöllnir. The gods judge Mjöllnir to be the greatest of the six treasures. Abbie Farewell Brown's "In the Days of Giants" was first published in 1902, and this illustration was digitized from the reprint that was published in 1930. 80 135

This illustration was created by Elmer Boyd Smith in Wilton, Connecticut, USA, for the 1930 edition ofIn the Days of Giants.

This illustration is from In the Days of Giants from the collection of P. A. Baer.

The digital image repository, MyNDIR, began as part of P. A. Baer's Ph.D. project An Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present. The original prototype for a digital image repository and web page featured 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.

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).

Keyword items consisting of simple nouns, are 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><term ref="#EdWdn"/></item> <item><title ref="#TrsGds"/></item> <item><persName ref="#LoK01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#SnsIvld01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#Brkr01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#Etr01"/></item> <item><name n="1" xml:lang="non" type="artifact" subtype="hammer" ref="#MjoNr01"/></item> <item><name type="animal" subtype="boar" ref="#GLnBrst01"/></item> <item><name type="artifact" subtype="ring" ref="#Drpnr01"/></item> <item><term type="artifact" ref="#GngNr01"/></item> <item><name type="artifact" subtype="goldenhair" ref="#SfGdnHr01"/></item> <item><name type="artifact" subtype="ship" ref="#Skdbldnr01"/></item> <item><term ref="#hammer01"/></item> <item><term ref="#boar01"/></item> <item><term ref="#ring01"/></item> <item><term ref="#spear01"/></item> <item><term ref="#ship01"/></item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2020-10-16">2020-10-16</date>: the page containing this illustration was scanned with an Epsom scanner at 600 dpi in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre by <persName ref="#CDML01">Camille</persName>.</item> <item> <date when="2020-10-27">2020-10-27</date>: <persName ref="#CDML01">Camille</persName> cropped the image and saved it as: KrY-HrsAsg-1908-088-01.jpg.</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/VcTrn-DysGnts-1930-088-01.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="1064px" height="1774px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc>This scene is from the 1930 edition of <persName ref="#AFBrwn01"><forename>Abbie F</forename> <surname>Brown</surname></persName>'s <title xml:lang="en" level="m">In the Days of Giants.This illustration by E. Boyd Smith is from a Victorian era retelling of the making of The Treasures of the Gods. The myth begins when Loki cut off Sif’s golden hair while she is sleeping. Sif’s husband, Þórr, threatens to break every one of Loki’s bones unless he replaces her hair with golden hair made by the dwarves. The dwarves known as the Sons of Ivaldi make the golden hair along with the spear Gungnir and the ship "Skíðblaðnir. Loki wagers his head that the dwarvesBrokkr and Eitri cannot make three treasures as good the ones made by the Sons of Ivaldi. Loki loses the bet, but not his head, when Brokkr and Eitri produce the boar Gullinbursti, the ring Draupnir, and Þórr’s hammer Mjöllnir. The gods judge Mjöllnir to be the greatest of the six treasures. Abbie Farewell Brown's In the Days of Giants was first published in 1902, and this illustration was digitized from the reprint that was published in 1930.
Primary Sources Brown, Abbie. In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Secondary Sources Review of <title level="m">In the Days of Giants by Abbie Farwell Brown. The Washington Post (1877-1922), 5 May 1902: 7. Web. 20 November 2021.
The MyNDIR Team Laliberte, Camille Research Assistant Anomalies Loki Loge

In Norse mythology, Loki is counted among the gods but he is a giant by birth.

 InThe Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner created Loge by combining the figure of Loki, who is counted to be among the gods in the Prose Edda, with the giant Logi,who is the personification of fire in the myth concerning Þórr´s Journey to the Court of Útgarða-Loki. Artifacts Draupnir Odin's gold ring which has the power to multiply itself. Gungnir Óðinn's spear whose name means "swaying one." Mjöllnir Mjollnir Þórr's hammer that returns to his hand after he throws it. Sif's Golden Hair The hair created by the dwarves to replace the hair that Loki cut off. Skíðblaðnir A boat belonging to Freyr or Odin, depending on the myth. Creatures: animals, birds, monsters etc. Gullinbursti Sliðrugtanni This great boar was one of the three magical items made by the dwarves Brokk and Eitri, the sons of Ívaldi, at the request of Loki when he needed to appease the gods after he cut off Sif's hair. Loki gave Gullinbursti to Freyr to pull his chariot and it could run over the earth and through the air. Its golden bristles shone so that it could find its way day or night. Gullinbursti was also known as Sliðrugtanni. Dwarves and Elves Brokkr One of the Sons of Ivaldi and brother of the dwarf Eitri. Brokkr is also known as Sindri. Loki made a bet with these brothers that they could not make three treasures as good as the three treasures that the Sons of Ivaldi made for the gods. Eitri The brother of the dwarf Brokkr. Eitri is also known as Sindri. Loki made a bet with these brothers that they could not make three treasures as good as the three treasures that the Sons of Ivaldi made for the gods. Sons of Ivaldi Brokkr and Eitri, the sons of the dwarf Ivaldi, who are called upon to recreate Sif's hair and created other as well that are known as the Treasures of the Gods.other treasures for the Gods. Gods and Goddesses Sif The wife of Thor. She is known to have beautiful, long, golden hair, which Loki cuts off. 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.

 Myths <ref target="TrsGds.xml">The Treasures of the Gods</ref> The six treasures of the gods were made by two groups of dwarves at the request of Loki after he cut off Sif's hair while she was sleeping. Loki asks the dwarves to make the treasures in order to appease Sif’s husband, Þórr. The Sons of Ivaldi make golden hair to replace Sif's hair and also make the spear Gungnir and the ship "Skíðblaðnir. Loki bets the dwarves Brokkr and Eitri that they can not produce treasures equal to the ones made by the Sons of Ivaldi. Brokkr and Eitri create the boar Gullinbursti, the ring Draupnir, and Þórr’s hammer Mjöllnir. The gods judge Mjöllnir to be the greatest of the treasures. Loki loses the bet and almost loses his head but keeps it because the bet did not involve harming his neck. Nouns villisvín boar EdwardianThe Edwardian era began with the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910 (January 22, 1901 - July 28, 1914). However, the era's end date is sometimes extended to the beginning of World War 1 (28 July 1914). hamarr hammer hringr ring skip ship spjót spear Source Materials: <ref target="DysGnts-1930.xml">In the Days of Giants</ref> Retelling of Norse Myth written by Abbie Farwell Brown and illustrated by Elmer Boyd Smith. Source Persons Brown, Abbie Farwell August 21, 1871 March 5, 1927 American Author Boston, Massachusetts, USA Abbie Farwell Brown was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, lyricist, and children's author. Smith,Elmer Boyd May 31, 1860 October 5, 1943 Canadian/American Author/Illustrator Wilton, Connecticut, USA A Canadian-American writer and illustrator.