I just posted some new scans from an old book I was given years ago. It was from my father, whose father had given it to him.
It is a collection of the Norse Prose Edda, or Norse Sagas, as written by Snorre Sturlason. The book was printed in Oslo (then, Kristiania) in 1900. My father took one of the small (2cmx2cm) woodcuts in the book and carved the head of a cradle for me when I was a baby. I then took a scan of this same woodcut and had it tattooed on my back 20 years ago or more. Dad also carved one of the other small illustrations onto the face of a set of bellows for a fireplace that he made.
The new scans from Kongesagaer are here.
I have added here below, images of those carvings, woodcuts and tattoo (keep in mind how small the originals are – about 3cm square). The sleeping baby is my son Owen in the cradle dad made in 1964.
Queen Ragnhild’s dream.