{"id":16263,"date":"2015-01-16T02:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16263"},"modified":"2015-01-16T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:20:18","slug":"john-bauers-godsaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/01\/16\/john-bauers-godsaga\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bauer&#8217;s Godsaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Awake Gr\u00f3a, Awake Mother.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The book is <em>Our Fathers&#8217; Godsaga<\/em> (1911), tales of the Norse gods by Viktor Rydberg. The illustrations are by Swedish artist John Bauer (1882\u20131918), and may be seen at a larger size <a href=\"http:\/\/runeberg.org\/gudasaga\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Bauer&#8217;s drawing of Gr\u00f3a makes me think of the opening scene of David Rudkin&#8217;s television film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082030\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Artemis 81<\/em><\/a>, a drama that involves attempts to wake a more potentially destructive Earth Mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fenrir and Tyr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Freyja and Svipdag.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Idunn and Loki.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Loki finds Gullveig&#8217;s Heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Odin and Sleipnir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Svipdag speaks with Thokk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bauer8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bauer8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Svipdag transformed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/18\/the-art-of-john-bauer-1882-1918\/\">The art of John Bauer, 1882\u20131918<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awake Gr\u00f3a, Awake Mother. The book is Our Fathers&#8217; Godsaga (1911), tales of the Norse gods by Viktor Rydberg. The illustrations are by Swedish artist John Bauer (1882\u20131918), and may be seen at a larger size here. Bauer&#8217;s drawing of Gr\u00f3a makes me think of the opening scene of David Rudkin&#8217;s television film Artemis 81, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/01\/16\/john-bauers-godsaga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Bauer&#8217;s Godsaga&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[6890,6889],"class_list":["post-16263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-john-bauer","tag-viktor-rydberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}