MyNDIR-IDG stands for My Norse Digital Image Repository - Insight Development Grant.

MyNDIR and MyNDIR-IDG Timeline

The University of Victoria would not fund the MyNDIR-IDG Flickr Pro account when I wanted to create it for my Research Assistants to use when working on the Insight Development Grant in 2020. Consequently, aside from the MyNDIR images it also contains albums for my other activities and interests, i.e., felting, spinning, guitars, ukuleles, etc.

Timeline

- September 2006: MyNDIR began as a project created by Trish Baer, (a.k.a.: P. A. Baer) as part of her Interdisciplinary PhD in the departments of English and History in Art at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

- February 27, 2013: Baer defended her dissertation An Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present on February 27th, 2013, and received her degree on June 10th, 2013.

- June 6, 2013: MyNDIR was launched at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria.

- July 9, 2020: Baer received a two-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (IDG) for “Visualizations of Old Norse Myths for Victorian and Edwardian Children (1837-1914). The IDG project was extended for 2 years due to COVID and was completed in 2024.

- The purpose of the IDG grant was to research, discuss and disseminate the Victorian/Edwardian era re-tellings of Old Norse Mythology, and to add images from the re-tellings to MyNDIR: myndir.uvic.ca/ .

As of July 29, 2026, our Flickr page continues to evolve as a work in progress. The members of the MyNDIR-IDG Team are working on adding descriptions, citations, and tags to the image files on Flickr. The Flickr images are also available on MyNDIR’s site with additional features, such as links to early print book reviews; links to e-books; links to manuscript archives; research notes etc. The images in our Flickr albums are all in the Public Domain.

Illustrations from manuscripts and early print books that are not on our Flickr page can be viewed on MyNDIR: myndir.uvic.ca/

The MyNDIR-IDG team at the University of Victoria consists of:

Team Leader: Dr. Trish Baer

Current Research Assistant: Stella Artemis

Programmers: Martin Holmes and Pat Szpak