Norse Mythology Collection
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A selection of Norse mythology related resources.
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Collection Details
- Items 6
- Last Updated 2024-07-31
Subcollections (1)
Works (5)
1. Nordens Guder i Billeder
- Title:
- Nordens Guder i Billeder
- Description:
- A collection of illustrations of Norse gods and mythology by Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and etcher Lorenz Frølich whose children's book illustrations are well known.
- Subject:
- Gods, Norse, Mythology, Norse, in art, Gods, Norse, in art, Mythology, Norse, and Art
- Creator:
- Frølich, Lorenz, 1820-1908
- Publisher:
- Kjøbenhavn : Hoved-Kommissionaer C. A. Reitzel, 1877.
- Language:
- dan
- Date Created:
- 1877
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage and http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Call Number: NE962 N67F76 (oversize)
- Extent:
- 29 plates ; 45 x 64 cm
- Alternative Title:
- The Gods of the North in Pictures
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Illustrations. The outer folder has split into two halves. The 29 loose pages within are not cut square, and vary slightly in size.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- From the Print Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- illustrated works (documents), illustrated books, drawings (visual works), and books
- Date Digitized:
- 2019-10-04
- Technical Note:
- Scanned Oct 3-4 on the Betterlight/TTI (1/20; 283; copy4stops; camera height 750). Metadata by KD.
2. Children of Odin
- Title:
- Children of Odin
- Description:
- Ernest Edwin Speight (6 December, 1871 - 17 September, 1949) was an author and English professor who spent most of his life teaching English in India and Japan. He also wrote and edited textbooks such as "Children of Odin" (1901) as well as English language textbooks. In 1918 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Fifth Class, in recognition of his teaching work at the Imperial University in Tokyo and the Fourth Higher School in Kanazawa. Disambiguation Note: "Children of Odin" (1901) by E. E. Speight is often confused with Padriac Colum’s "The Children of Odin" (1920). "Children of Odin" (1901) is a selection of retellings that begins with mythological material from the Icelandic "Eddas" and episodes from Icelandic sagas, and then moves on to Germanic mythology with “The Story of the Necken,” followed by the Norwegian fairy tale “The White Bear and the Trolls,” and concludes with the Norwegian poem “The Elf Dance.” Colum’s "The Children of Odin", on the other hand, is a retelling of Norse mythology from start to finish. The title of Speight’s book refers to “the people of [the] northern countries…the children of Odin themselves” (Preface 7), while the title of Colum’s book refers to the Norse gods that Odin was said to have fathered. Early Print Review: The "Saga-Book" reviewer A.F.M. wrote a generally positive review of Speight’s "Children of Odin". However, he added that “we cannot regard [the illustrations] as a merit, for the artist, whose name is not given, has evidently little acquaintance with Northern literature, and has read the letterpress very hurriedly and carelessly" ("Saga-Book" III of the Viking Club 1903 491). Dr. P. A. Baer For more information and further resources please refer to My Norse Digital Image Repository (https://myndir.uvic.ca/)
- Subject:
- Fairy tales, Mythology, Odin (Norse deity), Gods, Norse, Mythology, Germanic, Mythology, Norse, and Eddas
- Creator:
- Speight, E. E. (Ernest Edwin)
- Publisher:
- London : Horace Marshall & Son
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1901
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- License:
- This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text and http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Extent:
- 166 pages
- Edition:
- New and Revised Edition
- Geographic Coverage:
- Scandinavia
- Coordinates:
- 63, 12
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Illustrations.
- Collection:
- Norse Mythology Collection
- Provenance:
- From the collection of Dr. Trish Baer.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- books, mythology (literary genre), poetry, and fiction (general genre)
- Date Digitized:
- 2022-10
- Technical Note:
- Plustek flatbed book edge scanner @ 600dpi. Photoshop batch cropping, rotation, image size 4.8; digitization by KM. Metadata by KD.
3. Valkyrien: romantisk billeddigtning.
- Title:
- Valkyrien: romantisk billeddigtning.
- Description:
- Editor's note: https://doi.org/10.58066/4079-rt55
- Subject:
- Odin (Norse deity), Mythology, Norse, and Valkyries (Norse mythology)
- Creator:
- Moe, Louis, 1854-1945
- Publisher:
- Gyldendalske Boghandel ; Nordisk Forlag
- Language:
- dan
- Date Created:
- 1931
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage and http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Call Number: PZ54.1 M65 1931
- Extent:
- 94, [1] pages ; 22 cm
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Louis Maria Niels Peder Moe Collection
- Provenance:
- From the collection of Dr. Trish Baer.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- books
- Date Digitized:
- 2015-05-03
4. The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
- Title:
- The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
- Description:
- A Brief Overview of the Editions of The Heroes of Asgard Dr. Trish Baer “The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jötunheim", or, "The Week and its Story”, published in 1857, by Annie and Lisa Keary is a retelling of Old Norse mythology that features significant differences from the primary sources, i.e., the Icelandic manuscripts commonly known as the “Prose Edda” (1220) and the “Poetic Edda” (c. 1270). The illustrator, Charles Altamont Doyle, was acknowledged in the publication announcements but is not credited on the title page and the table of contents does not contain a list of the illustrations. This edition features a narrative framing device for the tales consisting of short conversations between adult storytellers and an audience of school children. The conversations are situated at the beginning and at the end of each tale and establish that the purpose of the tales was to amuse the children during the week leading up to Christmas Day. David Ashurst observes that “by means of this framing narrative, the authors account for the fact that the myths have been embroidered and sanitized” (“Eddic Myth, Victorian Values” 58). Doyle’s illustrations were reused by David Murray Smith in “The Silver Star, a Romance of the North Land: With Mythology of the Northmen” (1881) without the framing conversations. Smith did not acknowledge Doyle as the illustrator or the Keary sisters for the textual material he reused in his section on Norse Mythology. (Baer. “Digital Humanities Solves a Book History Mystery). The illustrator for second edition published in 1871, “The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology”, was Louis Huard (1814-1874). The conversations were deleted for this edition and were replaced with a forty-page introduction that was likely seldom read to children. The Preface states: In preparing the Second Edition of this little volume of tales from the Northern Mythology for the press, the Authors have thought it advisable to omit the conversations at the beginning and end of the chapters, which had been objected to as breaking the course of the narrative (Keary). Scholarly notes concerning primary and academic sources were added at the end of some, but not all, of the tales for this edition. The illustrator for the third edition published in 1930, “The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology”, was Charles E. Brock (1870 – 1938), and this is the edition that most readers are familiar with today. The Brock edition contains eighty-five illustrations with sixteen colour plates. The text of the tales remains the same, but the scholarly introduction and the notes of the second edition were eliminated. This is edition that was republished in 2012, by Dover Publications as “Tales of the Norse Warrior Gods: The Heroes of Asgard”, but not all of the plates are in colour and several were relocated, i,e., to the front cover and inside the covers. Unfortunately, without the framing conversations from the first edition or the academic apparatus from the second edition, naive readers of the third edition sometimes believe that the retellings represent the cultural and religious beliefs of Old Norse pagans (Baer. “Reshaping the Shape Shifter). The longevity of “The Heroes of Asgard” was assured in 1887 when Charlote Mason (1842–1923) founded the Parents' National Educational Union (PNEU) and included the Keary sisters’ retelling of the Norse myths in “an organized home-school curriculum for families living abroad that promised to solidify an English national identity in their children” (Neiwe, Rachel. “Savages or Citizens? Children, Education, and the British Empire, (1899-1950).” Abstract 2009). “The Heroes of Asgard”, was also frequently published in editions for public schools, e.g., MacMillian published an edition in 1905 in London and New York, “adapted for the use schools, with new introduction, glossaries etc.” Present day homeschoolers of various faiths, i.e., both Christian and non-Christian, include The Heroes of Asgard in their curricula and it is available online, e.g., “Gateway to the Classics” (for grades 4 -6) http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/browse/authors_browse_all.php? The illustrations from the three editions of the Kearys’ book are available in Version 2.2 of My Norse Digital Image Repository (https://myndir.uvic.ca/) along with links to digital versions of the three illustrated editions. Works Cited and Consulted Ashurst, David. “Eddic Myth, Victorian Values: The Popularisation of Old Norse Mythology in Britain, 1817 to 1876.” Schulz, Katja. “Sang an Aegir”: Nordische Mythen Um 1900. Ed. Katja Schulz. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009. 45-71. Print. Baer, Patricia. “Reshaping the Shape Shifter: Óðinn’s Victorian Makeover.” The Fortieth Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC). Monday, May 16, 2022. Unpublished conference presentation. ―. “Digital Humanities Solves a Book History Mystery: The Strange Case of Charles A. Doyle and The Heroes of Asgard (1857) Unpublished paper. (2022). Keary, Annie, and Liza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim: Or, the Weekand Its Story. London: Fleet Street: David Bogue, 1857. Print. ―, and Liza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1871. Print. ―, M R. Earle, and Eliza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. London: Macmillan, 1905. Print. ―, and Liza Keary. The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1930. Print. ―, Eliza Keary, and C E. Brock. Tales of the Norse Warrior Gods: The Heroes of Asgard. Newburyport: Dover Publications, 2012. SMITH, David M. The Silver Star. a Romance of the North Land. with a Brief Account of the Mythology of the Northmen ... with Six Illustrations. Pp. vi. 156. Houlston & Sons: London, 1880. Print. Neiwert, Rachel Ann. (2009). Savages or citizens? children, education, and the British Empire, 1899-1950. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/55579.
- Subject:
- Thor (Norse deity), Mythology, Norse, in literature, Gods, Norse, Loki (Norse deity), Odin (Norse deity), and Mythology, Norse
- Creator:
- Keary, Eliza and Keary, Annie, 1825-1879
- Contributor:
- Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938
- Publisher:
- New York : Mayflower Books, in association with Macmillan
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1979
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- License:
- This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage and http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 222 pages
- Edition:
- Facsimile edition.
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Illustrations and 16 color plates.
- Collection:
- Norse Mythology Collection
- Provenance:
- From the collection of Dr. Trish Baer.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- mythology (literary genre), fiction (general genre), and children's literature
- Date Digitized:
- 2022-06-09
- Technical Note:
- Metadata by KD.
5. Valkyrien: Editor's Note (March 2017)
- Title:
- Valkyrien: Editor's Note (March 2017)
- Description:
- Editor's note on Valkyrien and its translation
- Subject:
- Mythology, Norse and Valkyrien
- Creator:
- Baer, Trish
- Language:
- eng and dan
- Date Created:
- 2017-03
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Louis Maria Niels Peder Moe Collection
- Provenance:
- From the collection of Dr. Trish Baer.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Date Digitized:
- 2017-03
- Transcript:
- Editor’s NoteI discovered Louis Moe’s “The Danish text is far from “ mal” ”“ ”“ “og” or “men” So when the “ands” ” “hooked o,”– – from “Leaders” to “Chieftains”– – from “castle” to “stronghold” (‘fortification” was also a– – from “thwarts” to “seats”– – from “pixies” to “small trolls”– – from “more excited” to “more agitated”– – from “Fates” to “Norns”– – from “estate” to “farm”– – “pirates’” to “raiders’”