<rs>Digital image of the illustration on page [71] of <persName ref="#LouMoe01"><forename>Louis</forename> <surname>Moe</surname></persName>'s <title xml:lang="da" level="m">Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning. 1.2 MB This digital image is from Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning. The University of Victoria 2018 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning is in the public domain.

 RagRokEnBil-1929-UVic-071-01 Many of the illustrations in Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning have two digit numbers, along with Louis Moe's name, within the illustration. This one has the number 28, likely indicating the year 1928. Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning 1929 [71] Victoria Special Collections in the McPherson Library at the University of Victoria Valkyries at Ragnarök author Louis Moe 1857-1945 illustrator Louis Moe 1857-1945 paper 285 335

Valkyries fighting in the Battle of Ragnarok This scene is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning. 180 190

This illustration was created by Louis Moe in Copenhagen, Denmark and published in 1929 in Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.

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 2011.

Call number: NE962 N67M64

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> <name type="event" ref="#RagRok01"/> </item> <item> <term ref="#valkyries01"/></item> <item><title ref="#BttlRagRok"/> </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2016-03-10">2010-03-10</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="2019-04-17">2019-04-17</date>: cropped the image and saved it as: RagRokEnBil-1929-UVic-071-01.jpg - Dimensions: 1021 x 1104 - 1.2 MB.</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/RagRokEnBil-1929-UVic-071-01.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="1021px" height="1104px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc><term ref="#valkyries01">Valkyries</term> fighting in the <name type="event" ref="#RagRok01">Battle of Ragnarok</name> This scene is from Louis Moe's <title xml:lang="da" level="m">Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.
Primary Sources Moe, Louis Maria Niels Peder Halling. Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning. København, A.F. Høst, 1929. Secondary Sources Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Simek, Rudolf. Angela Hall . Dictionary of Northern Mythology. W Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007.
Myths<ref target="BttlRagRok.xml">The Battle of Ragnarök</ref>The myth concerning the final great battle between the gods and the giants.Mythological Events Ragnarök Ragnarok The final great battle between the gods and the giants. Nouns valkyrja/valkyrjur valkyrie/valkyries

Supernatural female warriors who are closely associated with Óðinn and decide the fate of warriors. They convey those who die in battle to Valhöll to join the group known as einherjar who will fight on the side of the Gods in the Battle of Ragnarök.

Árni Björnsson notes in Wagner and the Volsungs: Icelandic Sources of <title level="m">Der Ring des Nibelungen that "the idea of the valkyries derives from the Eddas and other early poetry. The German word Walküre is a nineteenth-century Germanistion of the Icelandic valkyrja ('chooser of the slain') (155).

 Source Materials: <ref target="Moe-RagRok-1929.xml">Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning</ref> Louis Moe's illustrated retelling of the Battle of Ragnarok and the events that preceded it. Source Persons Moe, Louis 1857 1945 Norwegian/Danish. illustrator Copenhagen Moe was an illustrator who was born in Norway but became a Danish citizen in 1919.