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Þórr's Throne Room

Þórr's Throne Room
  • Creator: Olaus Rudbeck 1630-1702
  • Description: Þórr, wearing a crown and seated on a throne while holding a sceptre and an iconic item representing lightening bolts, with Óðinn on the left in armour holding a sword and Frigg on the right holding a sword and a bow.
  • Source: Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica
  • Folio or Page: 310
  • Medium: Not known
  • Date: 1939
  • Dimensions (mm): 120 x 92
  • Provenance:
    This copy of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica was purchased by P.A. Baer from AbeBooks.
    P.A. Baer photographed this illustration from her copy of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica.
  • Rights:
    Illustrations from the 1939 edition of Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica are in the public domain.
  • Bibliography:

    Editions

    Rudbeck, Olaus. Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica: Svenska Originalteksten. Edited by Axel Nelson, På Uppdrag Av Lärdomshistoriska Samfundet, Utg. Av Axel Nelson. Uppsala: Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell, 1939.

    Secondary Sources

    Cleasby, Richard and Vigfússon Guðbrandur . An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
  • Identity Number: AtLnTc-1939-310-01
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Óðinn, Odin, Wotan   Þórr, Thor, Donner   Frigg, Frigg, Fricka   Rudbeck, Olaus   Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica: Svenska Originalteksten  

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Gods and Goddesses

Frigg (non.) Frigg (en.) Fricka (ger.)
The wife of Óðinn and the mother of Baldr.
Richard Wagner based Fricka in The Ring Cycle on Frigg, Lofn, and Vár.
Óðinn (non.) Odin (en.) Wotan (ger.)
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.
Richard Wagner in The Ring of the Nibelung based Wotan on Óðinn.
Þórr (non.) Thor (en.) Donner (ger.)
In the Prose Edda, Þórr is the son of Óðinn and the giantess Jörð. However, in Heimskringla, he is a mortal.
Richard Wagner based Donner in The Ring Cycle on Þórr.

Source Materials:

Atland Eller Manheim... Olaus Rudbecks Atlantica: Svenska Originalteksten (sv.). In this book, Olaus tries to prove that Sweden is the lost Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and that Swedish was the language from which Hebrew and Latin had evolved.

Source Persons

Rudbeck, Olaus b. 1618
d. 1682
Nationality: Swedish
Occupation: scholar, historian, runologist
Residence: Uppsala, Sweden
Olaus tried to prove that Sweden was the lost Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and that Swedish was the language from which Hebrew and Latin had evolved.