Description: Freyja
reclining on a boar Hildisvíni, who is actually Freyja´s
follower Ottarr in disguise. Freyja and Ottarr have come
to consult the giantess Hyndla to gain knowledge concerning Ottarr's
ancestors. This scene is from the Eddaic poem Hyndluljöð in Karl Gjellerup's Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
Source: Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange
Folio or Page: 274
Medium: Not known
Date: 1895
Dimensions (mm): 100 x 90
Provenance:
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: PT7234 A2G5
Rights:
This illustration from Den Ældre Eddas
Gudesange is in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
Hyyndluljóð is an Eddaic poem but is not in the Codex Regius ms and is
found only in the 14 century Flateyjarbók ms.
Bibliography:
Editions
Ældre Eddas
Gudesange.
Translated by
Karl
Gjellerup,
Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens
Forlag, 1895.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Hildisvíni (non.)
The name of the boar that Freyja changes Óttarr into in order to
disguise him when they go to consult the giantess Hyndla concerning
Óttarr's genealogy.
Giants and Giantesses
Hyndla (non.)
Hyndla is the giantess who Freyja consults in Hyndluljóð in order to find out about
Óttarr´s genealogy.
Gods and Goddesses
Freyja (non.)
A fertility goddess and one of the Vanir. She is the daughter of
Njörðr and the twin sister of Freyr.
Mythological Persons
Óttarr (Hyndluljóð) (non.)
Ottar (The Song of Hyndla) (en.)
The young man in the poem Hyndluljóð who askes Freyja to help him
acquire knowledge about his ancestors. Freyja changes him into a boar
named Hildissvini to disguise him when they consult the giantess
Hyndla.
Hyndluljóð (non.)
Song of Hyndla (en.)
This Eddaic poem is not part of the Codex Regius manuscript and is
found only in the late 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript.
Ældre Eddas
Gudesange (da.)
An edition of the Poetic Edda with
illustrations by Lorenz Frølich.
Source Persons
Frølich,
Lorenz (da.)
b. 1820
d. 1908
Nationality: Danish
Frolich was a painter, illustrator and etcher.
Gjellerup,
Karl (da.)
b. 2nd June 1857
d. 13th October 1919
Nationality: Danish
Gellurup was a Danish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1917.
