Social:Eyrarland Statue
The Eyrarland Statue is a bronze statue of a seated figure (6.7 cm[1][2]) from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The object is a featured item at the National Museum of Iceland. The statue may depict the Norse god Thor and/or may be a gaming-piece.
The statue was unearthed in 1815 or 1816 on one of two farms called Eyrarland in the vicinity of Akureyri.[2][3][4]
If the object is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is here holding his hammer Mjöllnir, sculpted in the typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Þrymskviða where Thor recovers his hammer while seated by grasping it with both hands during the wedding ceremony.[5]
Notes
- ↑ (in Icelandic) Úr íslenzkri listsögu fyrri alda. Birtingur. 1 June 1962. p. 5. http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=5389779. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eldjárn, Kristján (1981). "The bronze image from Eyrarland". in Dronke, Ursula. Specvlvm norroenvm: Norse studies in memory of Gabriel Turville-Petre. Odense University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-87-7492-289-6. https://books.google.com/books?ei=hUjJTvTyGOqkiQLW7tEB&ct=result&id=1tqzAAAAIAAJ&dq=Eyrarland+Akureyri&q=The+image+is+said+to+have+been+found+in+1815+or+1816+on+the+farm+Eyrarland+near+Akureyri+in+northern+Iceland.2+There+are+two+farms+of+that+name+in+the+vicinity+of+Akureyri+and+it+is+not+possible+now+to+be+sure+on+which+of+them+the+image#search_anchor.
- ↑ Perkins, Richard (2001). Thor the wind-raiser and the Eyrarland image. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-903521-52-9. https://books.google.com/books?ei=hUjJTvTyGOqkiQLW7tEB&ct=result&id=lSoRAQAAIAAJ&dq=Eyrarland+Akureyri&q=%28KE1983%2C+64%29+#search_anchor.
- ↑ Bertelsen, Lise Gjedssø (2000). "Some New Aspects of the Ringerike-Style Statuette from Eyrarland, Northern Iceland". in Ingi Sigurðsson. Aspects of Arctic and sub-Arctic history: proceedings of the International Congress on the History of the Arctic and the Sub-Arctic Region, Reykjavík, 18-21 June 1998. Reykjavík: University of Iceland. p. 507. ISBN 978-9979-54-435-7. https://books.google.com/books?ei=hUjJTvTyGOqkiQLW7tEB&ct=result&id=rTHXAAAAMAAJ&dq=Eyrarland+Akureyri&q=It+is+said+to+have+been+found+in+1815+or+1816+on+the+farm+Eyrarland+near+Akureyri+and+was+sent+to+the+Museum+of+Antiquities+in+Copenhagen+in+1817+%28National+Museum+of+Denmark%2C+mus.+no.+LXV%29%2C+as+there+was+no+museum+in+Iceland#search_anchor.
- ↑ Ross, Margaret Clunies (2002). "Reading Þrymskviða". in Acker, Paul; Larrington, Carolyne. The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology. London: Routledge. pp. 188–189. ISBN 0-8153-1660-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=j4bufbA_UpQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
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