Lady of the Mountain

[1] The word fjallkonan is attested for the first time in the poem Eldgamla Ísafold by Bjarni Thorarensen from the first decade of the nineteenth century.

It is the work of the German painter Johann Baptist Zwecker, who drew it to specifications provided by Eiríkur.

Eiríkur described the picture in a letter to Jón Sigurðsson (11 April 1866) thus: Also very popular is the image designed by Benedikt Gröndal on a memorial card of the national holiday in 1874.

[5][6][7] The Lady of the Mountain apparead on cover of the Sólstafir last album, Endless Twilight of Codependent Love.

A woman dressed as the Lady of the Mountain first appeared at the Iceland Days in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1924.

Watercolour of the Lady of the Mountain, 1864, by Johann Baptist Zwecker . Now in Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum.
Wood engraving of the Lady of the Mountain, copied by Zwecker from his original watercolour, and published in Icelandic Legends (1866)