<rs>Digital image of the illustration on page 270 of the first edition in 1857 of <persName ref="#KrY01"><forename>Annie</forename> <surname>Keary</surname></persName>'s childrens book <title xml:lang="en" level="m">The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its Story. 4.66 MB This digital image is from The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its Story. The University of Victoria 2022 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its Story is in the public domain.

 HrsAsg-1857-270-01 The title page for the The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its Story does not name an illustrator nor do the Contents pages indicate that the book contains illustrations. Ken Baitsholts notes that the illustrator is credited as Charles Altamont Doyle in the Publishers' Circular for 1857, i.e., David Bogue. P. A. Baer notes that David Bogue's Annual Catalogue is included in the The Heroes of Asgard's back matter and that the entry for The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim cites C. Doyle as the book's illustrator in the listings for "Juvenille Works" (24). Early Print review of the first edition of The Heroes of Asgard: "The Scandinavian mythology converted into a tale told for the edification of children, after the manner of books that have taught the Greek and Roman mythology. But no genius can invest the gods of Asgard with the charms of the gods of Oympus. They have none of the grace or dignity. But the authoress has made the best of an unattractive theme." Web. 27 July 2021. (The Critic 130)Full text of the review (ProQuest subscription required). Early Print review of the first edition of The Heroes of Asgard: "The fables of the Northern mythology are here reduced to a form adapted to the intelligence of children. They have been cleverly set to an accompaniment of occasional dialogue, lightening and relieving the narrative of giants' wars and of heroic prowess achieved by dwellers in the immortal city. The book is a good specimen of learning made easy by being made pleasant." (The Athenaeum 470) Web. 27 July 2021. Web. 27 July 2021. (470) Full text of the Review (ProQuest subscription required). The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim, Or, The Week and Its Story 1857 270 Reykjavik National and University Library of Iceland "Skirnir Among the Dwarfs" author Annie KearyMarch 3, 1825-March 3, 1879 illustrator Charles Altamont DoyleMarch 25, 1832October 19, 1893 paper 120 180

This illustration is from a retelling of Norse mythology in the first edition of Annie Keary's The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim: Or, the Week and Its Story (1857) illustrated by Charles Altamont Dolye. This illustration is from the Binding of Fenrir myth. The illustration depicts Skirnir who has come to the dwarves to obtain a magic fetter to bind the wolf. Doyle incorporates Keary´s detail in her retelling, in the top left hand corner, that the dwarves were sentenced by Óðinn to throw “fuel upon the great earth’s central fire” as part of their punishment for killing Kvasir (33). 80 127 not known

This illustration was created by Charles Altamont Doyle in London, for the 1857 edition of The Heroes of Asgard.

This illustration is from The Heroes of Asgard in the collection of the National and University Library of Iceland. Catalogue record: The heroes of Asgard and the giants of Jötunheim : Or, The week and its story Keary, Amie, 1825-1879 höfundur ; Keary, Eliza. London : David Bogue, 1857Í hillu Lbs-Hbs Íslandssafn Almenn rit (Í 823 Kea) Lánstími: Lestrarsalslán

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="#VcTrn"/></item> <item><persName ref="#SkrNr01"/></item> <item><title ref="#BindFenR"/></item> <item> </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item><date when="2022-05-11">May 11, 2022</date>: the illustration was photographed by Jón Karl Helgason with a Samsung SM-A127F -f/2 - 1/60 sec - ISO-64 - Focal length 5 mm - 35 mm focal length 25</item> <item><date when="2022-05-11">May 11, 2022</date>: P. A. Baer cropped the image and saved it as: CAD-HrsAsg-1857-270-01.jpg</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/CAD-HrsAsg-1857-270-01.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="2082px" height="2964px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc>This illustration is from a retelling of Norse mythology in the first edition of <persName ref="#KrY01"><forename>Annie</forename> <surname>Keary</surname></persName>'s <title xml:lang="en" level="m">The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim: Or, the Week and Its Story (1857) illustrated by Charles Altamont Dolye. This illustration is from the Binding of Fenrir myth. The illustration depicts Skirnir who has come to the dwarves to obtain a magic fetter to bind the wolf. Doyle incorporates Keary´s detail in her retelling, in the top left hand corner, that the dwarves were sentenced by Óðinn to throw “fuel upon the great earth’s central fire” as part of their punishment for killing Kvasir (33).
Editions Keary, Annie, and Eliza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim: Or, the Week and Its Story. London: Fleet Street: David Bogue, 1857. Print. Keary, Annie, and Eliza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1908. Secondary Sources Doyle, Charles Altamont. The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery : with a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle. New York: Paddington Press, 1978. Print. Review of <title level="m">The Heroes of Asgard, by Annie Keary, and Eliza Keary. The Critic, 16 Mar. 1857: 130. Web July 27, 2021. Review of <title level="m">The Heroes of Asgard, by Annie Keary and Eliza Keary. The Athenaeum, 11 Apr. 1857: 470. Web. 27 July 2021. Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
Gods and Goddesses 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.

 Skírnir Freyr´s servant who woos the giantess Gerðr on Freyr´s behalf in exchange for Freyr´s sword. Myths <ref target="BindFenR.xml">Binding of Fenrir Myth</ref> This myth relating the story of how the gods managed to trick the wolf Fenrir into letting them bind him with a magic fetter. They fail with a fetter called Leyding and another called called Dromi but succeed with one called Gleipnir. Unfortunately, the god Týr had put his hand in Fenrir´s mouth as a guarantee that the gods were not trying to trick Fenrir into being bound. Fenrir bites off Týr´s hand when he realizes that he has cannot break the fetter. NounsVictorianThe Victorian era began with the reign of Queen Victoria and ended with her death (June 20, 1837 – January 22, 1901).Source Materials: <ref target="HrsAsg-1857.xml">Heroes of Asgard (1857 ed.)</ref>The first edition of The Heroes of Asgard was published in 1857 and was illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle.Source Persons Doyle, Charles Altamont March 25, 1832 October 19, 1893 English civil servant, illustrator and water colourist Keary, Annie English Novelist, poet, and childrens book writer. Anna Maria Keary, known as Annie Keary, was an English novelist, poet, and children's writer. Her sister Eliza Keary collaborated with her in writing “The Heroes of Asgard” that was first published in 1857 and many times thereafter.