<rs>Digital image of the illustration on page [182] of the first edition in 1871 of <persName ref="#JlGddrd01"><forename>Julia</forename> <surname>Goddard</surname></persName>'s childrens book <title xml:lang="en" level="m">Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands. 2.74 MB This digital image is from Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands. The University of Victoria 2023 Victoria, B.C., Canada

This illustration from Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands is in the public domain.

 WndStrsNrthLnds-1871-182-01 Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands 1871 [182] Reykjavik Special Collections at the Icelandic National Library King Olaf the Saint author Julia Goddard11 July 1825-30 September 1896 illustrator W J. Weigand (Life dates unknown. Working Dates:1869-1882) paper 80 140

This scene is from the first edition of Julia Goddard's Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands. Goodard's retelling of "King Olaf and the Little People" is based on the Danish ballad Hellig-Olavs Væddefart concerning a race to Norway between King Ólafr and his half-brother, Haraldr Sigurðarson. In Goodard's retelling, Ólafr boasts to the elves that he can take advantage of miraculous events in order to win the race because he is both a king and a saint. 80 140 Engraved by G. Pearson

This illustration was created by W.J. Weigand in London, for the 1871 edition of Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands.

This illustration is from Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands 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="#VcTrn"/></item> <item> <title ref="#ThttOlfGrstdAlfs01"/> </item> <item rend="name:OlfHrDs01"/> <item> <title ref="#HllOlvVdd"/> </item> <item> <persName ref="#OlfGdrds01"/> </item> <item><term type="elves" ref="#elves01"/></item> <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 --> <!-- ballad --> </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <list> <item> <date when="2022-08-22">2022-08-27</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">2020-09-27</date>: <persName ref="#PAB01">Trish Baer</persName>cropped the image and saved it as: Vctrn-WndStrsNrLnds-1871-182-01-Plt.jpg</item> </list> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <facsimile> <graphic url="images/VcTrn-WndStrsNrthLnds-1871-182-01-Plt.jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" width="1972px" height="3248px"/> </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="WndStrs-1871-ed"><author><name><surname>Goddard</surname>, <forename>Julia</forename></name></author>. <title level="m">Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands. London: Longmans, Green, and Co , 1871.
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 Historical Persons, i.e. from Heimskringla, Saxo, sagas etc. Óláfr Guðröðarson Óláfr Geirstaðaalfr Olaf Geirstad-Alf In Þáttr Ólafs Geirstaða Alfs, in the Flateyjarbók manuscript, Ólafr Guðröðarson is worshipped after his death and called Ólafr Geirstaðaalfr, i.e., the "elf of Geirstad. His ghost arranges to have his grave mound destroyed so that he can be reborn as Ólafr Haraldsson, the Norwegian king who was canonized a year after his martyrdom at the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. Ólafr Haraldsson is now known as Holy King St. Ólaf, the patron saint of Norway. Óláfr Haraldsson Olaf Haraldsson The Norwegian king whose saga makes up one third of Heimskringla. He became a saint one year after he died in 1030. According to Heimskringla, he died at the Battle of Stiklestad. Nouns alvar elves VictorianThe Victorian era began with the reign of Queen Victoria and ended with her death (June 20, 1837 – January 22, 1901).Source Materials: <ref target="HllOlvVdd.xml">Hellig-Olavs Væddefart</ref> King Olaf's Race Danish ballad (DgF 50) that tells of a race to Norway between King Ólafr and his half-brother, Haraldr Sigurðarson. <ref target="ThttOlfGrstdAlfs01.xml">Þáttr Ólafs Geirstaða Alfs</ref>A post-pagan tale in the Flateyjarbók manuscript in which Ólafr Guðröðarson is worshipped after his death and called Ólafr Geirstaðaalfr, i.e., the "elf of Geirstad. According to the tale, Ólafr's ghost arranges to have his grave mound destroyed so that Ólafr can be reborn as Ólafr Haraldsson, the Norwegian king who was martyred at the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030 and was canonized a year later. Ólafr Haraldsson is now known as Holy King St. Ólaf, the patron saint of Norway. <ref target="WndStrsNrthLnds-1871.xml">Wonderful Stories from Northern Lands</ref>Julia Goddard's collection of retellings based on eddaic poems, sagas and ballads.Source Persons Goddard, Julia British Julia Goddard was a British children's writer, animal rights activist, journalist and artist. She wrote over 25 books in her lifetime. Weigand, W.J. Unknown Unknown British Illustrator and draughtsman whose work was published in many London magazines.