Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum, is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg.
"Citizen of Martinia with a wig" Illustration from the 1741 first edition.
"Sentencing the deceased citizen of Potu." Illustration engraved by Johan Frederik Clemens after drawing by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, from the 1789 deluxe edition translated into Danish by poet Jens Baggesen.
Wandering Jew
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The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed t
Niels Klim's Underground Travels
…as he escapes he falls into a hole, which carries him through the crust and back up to Bergen again. There, he is mistaken by the townsfolk to be the Wandering Jew, mostly due to a lingual misunderstanding (he asks a couple of young boys where he is in quamittian, which is Jeru Pikal Salim, and the boys think he…
The Wandering Jew by Gustave Doré
Adaptation of the motif of the wandering Jew, Basel, 1820–1840, Jewish Museum of Switzerland
The Wandering Jew by Samuel Hirszenberg (1899)
The Wandering Jew (left) meets Christ on his way to Calvary, as depicted in the Chronica Majora