Description: This illustration is from a retelling of Old Norse mythology,
Asgard Stories
(1901), by Mary
H.
Foster and Mabel H.
Cummings. The illustration
depicts Óðinn sitting on
Hliðskjálf with his spear, Gungnir; his ravens, Huginn and Muninn; and his wolves, Geri and Freki. The illustration is
signed with the initials H.L.M., but these initials are not
necessarily the initials of the illustrator. See Research Notes
below for information concerning the original source and the
original illustrator.
Source: Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse
Mythology
Folio or Page: frontispiece
Medium: not known
Date: 1901
Dimensions (mm): 90 x 140
Provenance:
This illustration is from Asgard Stories:
Tales from Norse Mythology from the collection of P. A.
Baer.
Rights:
This illustration from Asgard Stories: Tales
from Norse Mythology is in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
Sage Dunn-Krahn notes in his MyNDIR-IDG research spreadsheet "Asgard Stories and Original Illustrations" that the
original illustrator was Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder.' See the original
illustration in Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden (7).
Bibliography:
Editions
Foster,
Mary, and
Mabel
Cummings. Asgard
Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology. New
York: Silver, Burdett and Co,
1901.
Gungnir (non.)
Óðinn's spear whose name means "swaying one."
Hliðskjálf (non.)
The high seat that Odin sat on and looked out over the world.
Artist Not Known
Artist Not
Known
Artist not known for this illustration in Asgard
Stories
Creatures: animals, birds, monsters etc.
Freki (non.)
One of the two wolves that accompany Óðinn.
Geri (non.)
One of the two wolves that accompany Óðinn.
Huginn (non.)
One of Óðinn´s pair of ravens that he sends out in the morning to
gather news and whisper it into his ear when they come back. Huginn's
name means "thought."
Muninn (non.)
One of Óðinn´s pair of ravens that he sends out in the morning to
gather news and whisper it into his ear when they come back. Muninn's
name means "memory."
Gods and Goddesses
Óðinn (non.)
Odin (en.)
The chief god of the Æsir in The Prose Edda.
However, in Heimskringla he was a mortal who
tricks the King of Sweden into believing that he was a god.
Nouns
Edwardian (en.)The
Edwardian era began with the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910
(January 22, 1901 - 28 July, 1914). However, the era's end date is
sometimes extended to the beginning of World War 1 (28 July
1914).
hásæti (no.)high seat (en.)The seat indicating position or
status that the god or chieftain sat in. High seats had carved wooden
pilliars called Öndvegissúlur on each side of the seat.
Asgard Stories (en.)
Children's book by Mabel Cummings and Mary Foster published in
1901.
Source Persons
Cummings,
Mabel (en.)
Nationality: English
b. 28 Mar 1872
d. 24 August 1962
Occupation: Childrens book writer.
Nationality: American
Mabel Homer Cummings lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as
Boston and Cambridge. She was born on the 28th of March, 1872 in
Cambridge, and died on the 24th of August, 1962 in Brookline. She lived
with her sister, the horticulturalist and ornithologist Emma G.
Cummings. She was a school teacher and the headmistress and co-founder
of the high school Brimmer and May, where Cummings Hall is named after
her. She graduated from Smith College in 1895. She was almost certainly
a founding member of the College Club of Boston, the first women’s
college club in the United States, and bought the building at 76
Marlborough in 1893.
Foster,
Mary (en.)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Childrens book writer and schoolteacher.
b. 19 Dec 1848
d. 27 Oct 1914
