Description: A norn who is about
to cut the thread that she has been spinning from a distaff.
This scene is from Louis Moe's Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning.
Source: Ragnarok: En Billeddigtning
Folio or Page: [9]
Medium: Not known
Date: 1929
Dimensions (mm): 65 x 60
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 does not have a number.
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.
Ragnarök (non.)
Ragnarok (en.)
The final great battle between the gods and the giants.
Nouns
norn (non.)
Norns were female spirits. The three primary norns in Norse mythology,
i.e., Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld were associated with the destinies or
the fates of men.
Richard Wagner did not give individual names to the three norns in
Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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.
