Battle of Bråvalla, Topographical Plan — Mejer

A dramatic 17th-century engraving combining a topographical plan of the Bråvalla battlefield in Östergötland with a vivid imagined depiction of the legendary Norse battle.

Original Latin title: Topographica Delineatio Camporum BRAWALLENSIUM in Sueclandia Praefectura. Engraved by Johannes Mejer. From Atlas Danicus. Published in Copenhagen, c. 1650.

The Battle of Bråvalla, recorded in the 13th-century Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, was thought to have pitted the Geats and Swedes against the Danes in the legendary heroic age. Mejer, court cartographer to the Danish king, mapped the supposed site as part of his ambitious survey of the wider Danish-Norwegian sphere of influence around the Baltic.

Copperplate engraving. Good.