<rs>Digital image of the illustration on p. 17 in the 1900 second edition of <title xml:lang="no" level="m">Kongesagaer. 728 KB This digital image is from the second edition of Kongesagaer, which is the Norwegian translation of the Icelandic text Heimskringla. The illustration was originally part of a prototype of a digital image repository and webpage, MyNDIR (My Norse Digital images Repository), in P. A. Baer's Interdisciplinary PhD dissertation at the University of Victoria (2006 - 2013). The University of Victoria 2010 Victoria, B.C., Canada

Illustrations from the 1900 edition of Kongesagaer are in the Public Domain.

 SKng-1900-ABE-017-01 Kongesagaer 1900 17 Victoria Collection of P.A. Baer Portrait of Hel illustrator Erik Werenskiold 1855-1938 paper 120 185

This portrait of Hel is from Ynglingesoga, the first saga in Kongesagaer, in Gustav Storm's Norwegian translation of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. Werenskiod revised the shape of the portrait, and removed the iconographry associated with Hel, for this edition. 50 50 charcoal drawing printed by means of zincography

This illustration was created by Erik Werenskiold in Oslo, Norway circa 1900 for the 1899 first edition of Kongesagaer and was revised for the second edition.

This copy of Kongesagaer does not bear any indication as to its previous owners.

P.A. Baer purchased this copy of Kongesagaer from AbeBooks.com in 2007.

 Kongesagaer has been in continuous print since 1899 and many of its illustrations have been used in other editions and translations. The illustrations were reduced in size for the second edition which was printed in 1900. This illustration was not used in the second edition.

The purpose of the 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.

I 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 were 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 used the <att>xml:lang</att> for all of these elements. The keyword items for all proper nouns were linked to further descriptive data in a Names directory (names.xml).

I created additional 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 were 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.

The web page prototype for the repository will incorporate Web 2.0 principles to facilitate scholarly research and knowledge dissemination and to enable participation from users at all levels of interest.

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="#Yngl"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#EriWer01"/></item> <item> <persName ref="#Hel01"/></item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2009-12-12">2009-12-12</date> The illustrations in this copy, which P.A. Baer purchased from AbeBooks.com in 2007, were photographed with a Nikon D40 using an AF Mircro Nikkor 60mm 1:2:8 D lens and saved as fine JPEG files.</item> <item> <date when="2010-06-15"/>The images were re-photographed with a Nikon D40 using an AF Mircro Nikkor 60mm 1:2:8 D lens and saved as fine JPEG files.</item> <item><!-- next item --></item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/Hms-SKng-1900-ABE-Yngl-017-01.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="1051px" height="1060px"/> </facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <figure> <figDesc>This portrait of <persName ref="#Hel01">Hel</persName> is from <title xml:lang="no" level="a">Ynglinge saga, the first saga in Kongesagaer, in the second edition of Gustav Storm's Norwegian translation of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.
Primary Sources Sturluson, Snorri. <title level="m">Kongesagaer. Translated by Gustav Storm, Kristiania: J. M. Stenersen, 1899. Secondary Sources Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. Translated by Lee M. Hollander, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. Sturluson, Snorri. The Heimskringla: Or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Translated by Samuel Laing, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844.
Giants and Giantesses Hel A monstrous female being who is one of the three offspring of Loki and his mistress, the giantess Angrboða. 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="SKng-1900.xml">Kongesagaer (1900 ed.)</ref> The second edition of Gustaf Storm's Norwegian translation of Heimskringla. <ref target="Yngl.xml">Ynglinga saga</ref> Ynglingesoga Saga of the Ynglings The first saga in Heimskringla. It was based on the ninth-century skaldic poem Ynglingatal and concerns the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings. Source Persons 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. Werenskiold, Erik 1855 1938 Norwegian Werenskiold was a painter and illustrator who was in charge of the illustrations and the team of artists for Gustav Storm's editions of Kongesagaer in 1899 and 1900.