An Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present

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dc.contributor.authorBaer, Patricia Ann
dc.contributor.supervisorSiemens, Raymond George
dc.contributor.supervisorHarding, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-30T22:52:40Z
dc.date.available2014-03-02T12:22:03Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-04-30
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Programen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractMy Interdisciplinary dissertation examines illustrations in manuscripts and early print sources and reveals their participation in the transmission and reception of Old Norse mythology. My approach encompasses Material Philology and Media Specific Analysis. The reception history of illustrations of Old Norse Mythology affects our understanding of related Interdisciplinary fields such as Book History, Visual Studies, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. Part One of my dissertation begins with a discussion of the tradition of Old Norse oral poetry in pagan Scandinavia and the highly visual nature of the poems. The oral tradition died out in Scandinavia but survived in Iceland and was preserved in vernacular manuscripts in the thirteenth century. The discovery of these manuscripts in the seventeenth century initiated a cycle of illustration that largely occurred outside of Iceland. Part One concludes with an analytical survey of illustrations of Old Norse mythology in print sources from 1554 to 1915 revealing important patterns of transmission. Part Two traces the technological history of production of digital editions and manuscript facsimiles back to the seventeenth century when manuscripts were hand-copied and published by means of copperplate engravings. Part Two also discusses the scholarly and cultural prejudices towards images that are only now slowly fading. Part Two concludes with a description of my prototype for a digital image repository named MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository). MyNDIR will facilitate the emergence of images of Old Norse Studies from the current informal crowd sourcing of material on the web to a digital image repository supporting the dissemination of accurate scholarly knowledge in a widely accessible form. Part Three presents two thematic case studies that demonstrate the value of applying the skills of visual literacy to illustrations of Old Norse mythology. The first study examines Jakob Sigurðsson’s illustrations of Norse gods in hand-copied paper manuscripts from eighteenth-century Iceland. The second study examines illustrations by prominent Norwegian artists in the editions of Snorre Sturlason: Kongesagaer published in 1899 and 1900 respectively. What emerged from these studies is an understanding that illustrations offer insights for the study of Old Norse texts that the words of the texts alone cannot provide.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0362en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0377en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0279en_US
dc.description.proquestemailpabaer@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation“Individuality and Iconography: Jakob Sigurðsson’s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v.” in Á austrvega. Saga and East Scandinavia: Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Saga Conference Uppsala Sweden 9th – 15th August 2009. Ed. Agneta Ney. Gavle: Gavle University Press, 2009: 62-70.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4582
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectOld Norse Mythologyen_US
dc.subjectearly print sourcesen_US
dc.subjecteddasen_US
dc.subjectErik Werenskiolden_US
dc.subjectIcelandic manuscriptsen_US
dc.subjectillustrationsen_US
dc.subjectdigital humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectdigital image repositoryen_US
dc.subjectThe Prose Eddaen_US
dc.subjectThe Poetic Eddaen_US
dc.subjectGerhard Muntheen_US
dc.subjectChristian Krohgen_US
dc.subjectremediationen_US
dc.subjectTEI P5en_US
dc.subjectXMLen_US
dc.subjectJakob Sigurdssonen_US
dc.subjectSnorri Sturlusonen_US
dc.subjectHeimskringlaen_US
dc.subjectKongesagaeren_US
dc.subjectYnglinga Sagaen_US
dc.titleAn Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Presenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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