Description: Loki sitting
on a cliff. He appears to be conversing with two figures seated
on the rocks below him. This scene is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.
The introductory text that follows this scene notes that
Baldr is
dead and that Loki is responsible.
Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
Folio or Page: [5]
Medium: Not known
Date: 1929
Dimensions (mm): 180 x 180
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: NE962 N67M64
Rights:
This illustration from Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning is in the public domain.
Research notes, early print reviews, etc.:
Some of the illustrations in Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning have two digit numbers, along with Louis Moe's name,
within the illustration. This one has the number 28, likely referring to the
year 1928.
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Moe,
Louis Maria Niels Peder
Halling. Ragnarok: En
Billeddigtning. København, A.F.
Høst, 1929.
Secondary Sources
Cleasby, Richard
and
Vigfússon
Guðbrandur
. An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1957.
Simek,
Rudolf.
Angela
Hall
. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. W
Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer,
2007.
In Norse mythology, Loki is counted among the gods but he is a
giant by birth.
InThe Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner
created Loge by combining the figure of Loki, who is counted to be among
the gods in the Prose Edda, with the giant
Logi,who is the presonification of fire in the myth concerning Þórr´s
Journey to the Court of Útgarða-Loki.
Gods and Goddesses
Baldr (non.)
Balder (en.)
The god who was killed by his brother Höðr.
Mythological Events
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
Source Materials:
Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning (da.)
Louis Moe's illustrated retelling of the Battle of Ragnarok and the
events that preceded it.
Source Persons
Moe,
Louis (no.)
b. 1857
d. 1945
Nationality: Norwegian/Danish.
Occupation: illustrator
Residence: Copenhagen
Moe was an illustrator who was born in Norway but became a Danish
citizen in 1919.
