<rs>Digital image of the frontispiece illustration of <persName ref="#KathBlt01"><forename>Katherine F.</forename> <surname>Boult</surname></persName>'s childrens book <title xml:lang="en" level="m">Heroes of the Norselands. 3.7 KB This digital image is from Heroes of the Norselands. The University of Victoria 2023 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from Heroes of the Norselands is in the public domain.

 HrsNrsLnds-1903-01-FrtP Heroes of the Norselands 1903 Frontispiece Reykjavik Special Collections at the Icelandic National Library "Found a Shrivelled Witch-Woman" author Katherine F. Boult 1855 - 1927 illustrator T. H. Robinson 1869 - 1954 paper 75 120

This frontispiece by T. H. Robinson is from the second edition of Katherine F. Boult's Heroes of the Norselands that was first published in 1901. The illustration depicts Hermoðr and Þökk in Boult's retelling of the Death of Baldr myth. Þökk is actually Loki disguised as an old woman, who is the only living thing that refused to weep for Baldr. Consequently, Hel would not release Baldr from her domain. The caption for the illustration is "Found a Shrivelled Witch-Woman." The text describing the scene is on page 8. 75 120 Not known

This illustration was created by T. H. Robinson in London for the 1903 edition of The Heroes of Norseland.

This illustration is from Heroes of Norseland in the collection of the National and University Library of Iceland.

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="#DeathBald"/></item> <item><persName ref="#HrMd01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#ThK01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#LoK01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#Hel01"/></item> <item><persName ref="#BalD01"/></item> <item><!-- Use appropriate <element tag>, e.g., persName, title, name, term etc., with a ref attribute for the file path "names/names.xml that ends with a # hash and the xml:id"--> <!-- FIX add keywords relevant to the illustration's content --> </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2023-08-30">2023-08-30</date>: the page containing this illustration was photographed in the Special Collections at the Icelandic National Library by <persName ref="#PAB01">Trish Baer</persName></item> <item> <date when="2022-09-27">2022-09-27</date>: <persName ref="#PAB01">Trish Baer</persName>cropped the image and saved it as:HrsNrsLnds-1903-01-FrtP - Dimensions: width="22179px" height="3509px"</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <!-- FIX - fill in the px dimensions below--> <graphic url="images/EdWdn-HrsNrsLnds-1903-01-FrtP.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="22179px" height="3509px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <!-- 2022- We are no longer using this --> </figure> </div> </body> <back> <div type="bibliography"> <listBibl> <head>Editions</head> <bibl xml:id="HrsNrsLnds-1903-ed"><author><name><surname>Boult</surname>, <forename>Katharine F.</forename></name></author>. <title level="m">Heroes of Norselands. London: J.M. Dent, 1903.
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 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. Giants and Giantesses Hel A monstrous female being who is one of the three offspring of Loki and his mistress, the giantess Angrboða. Þökk Thokk A giantess in Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda who refused to weep for Baldr thereby preventing his release from Hel. According to Snorri, Þökk is Loki in disguise. Gods and Goddesses Baldr Balder The god who was killed by his brother Höðr. Hermóðr Hermod The god who rode Sleipnir to Hel to try and obtain the release of Baldr. Myths <ref target="DeathBald.xml">Death of Baldr Myth</ref> A myth concerning an accidental fratricide. It sometimes includes Loki as an instigator who dupes Baldr's brother, Höðr, into the act and actually guides his hand. In the Prose Edda, Snorri says that Höðr was blind.NounsEdwardianThe 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).Source Materials: <ref target="HrsNrsLnds-1903.xml">Heroes of the Norselands</ref>The Heroes of the Norselands by Katherine F. Boult was illustrated by T. H. Robinson. The first edition was published in 1901.Source Persons Boult, Katherine 1855 1927 English author, translator, musician Katherine Boult, née Katherine Florance Barman, was the wife of the oil merchant and justice of the peace, Cedric Randal Boult, and the mother of the conductor, Sir Adrian Cedric Boult. Katherine’s poor health prevented her from following a promising career as a pianist. Robinson, Thomas Heath 1869 1954 English illustrator London The son of the engraver Thomas Robinson (1838–1902), and the older brother of Charles and W. Heath, who were also illustrators