Description: Jules Lamé-Fleury's
retelling of Snorri's Prose Edda for children. Þórr is 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
shield and Frigg seated
on the right. The engraver for the illustration was J.J.
Leroy.
Source: La Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants
Folio or Page: 361
Medium: Not known
Date: 1891
Dimensions (mm): 110 x 60
Provenance:
This copy of La Mythologie, Racontée
Aux Enfants was purchased by Trish Baer from ABE Books
and donated to Special Collections at the University of
Victoria.
P.A. Baer photographed this illustration from her copy of La Mythologie, Racontée Aux
Enfants.
Rights:
Illustrations from the 1878 edition of La
Mythologie, Racontée Aux Enfants are in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
P. A. Baer notes that the figure identified as Frigg in
this illustration is modelled on the lowest of the three figures of Odinn seated
on high seats in the Gylfaginning illustration first illustrated in the
manuscript known as Codex
Upsaliensis (f. 26v) circa 1325. See:
mnd:DG11-026v and click on the keyword for Gylfi to see many
other renditions of the Gylfaginning scene.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Lamé-Fleury, Jules
Raymond. La
mythologie racontée aux enfants. Paris:
Borrani, 1891.
Secondary Sources
Baer,
Patricia
Ann. An Old
Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present.
Diss.
U. of Victoria, 2013.
Web.
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
