The Icelandic drawing book in the Árnasafn Museum # 62598
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The Icelandic drawing book in the Árnasafn Museum by Björn Th. Björnsson. Ásgerður Ester Búadóttir made the drawings.
In the drawing book, the story of creation is told in six small pictures, on two pages. Those who remember their Christian teachings may notice that the illustrator does not follow the creation story literally, but rather summarizes the work of two days into one, the creation of light and darkness and the creation of the firmament, but instead divides the creation of four-legged animals and man into two sections. Far from being a personal interpretation on his part, this has become a fixed tradition in the latter half of the Middle Ages. Man has become so jaded that he feels he is above being in harmony with four-legged creatures, even in these early days of all things, and a little later he goes a step further and separates the creation of man and woman into two different pictures. Although it is a small thing, it reflects man's changing worldview - he increasingly sees himself as the center of gravity of the world.
In the drawing book, the story of creation is told in six small pictures, on two pages. Those who remember their Christian teachings may notice that the illustrator does not follow the creation story literally, but rather summarizes the work of two days into one, the creation of light and darkness and the creation of the firmament, but instead divides the creation of four-legged animals and man into two sections. Far from being a personal interpretation on his part, this has become a fixed tradition in the latter half of the Middle Ages. Man has become so jaded that he feels he is above being in harmony with four-legged creatures, even in these early days of all things, and a little later he goes a step further and separates the creation of man and woman into two different pictures. Although it is a small thing, it reflects man's changing worldview - he increasingly sees himself as the center of gravity of the world.