One of the most highly acclaimed of the thirteenth-century Íslendingasögur, Njáls saga,
includes a unique account of somatic emotional display. When Þórhallr Ásgrímsson learns …

Health, Enhancement and Human-Lithic Relations in Medieval Iceland1 concepts of the
body and human health in Old Norse-Icelandic literature have received considerable …

The “mind” is a complex object that rests on presumptions of a particular biophysical entity: a
subjectivity that is aware of its existence as a self. Yet, what constitutes—and constituted …

Studies of the Middle Ages acknowledge that the body is one of the gaps in history yet to be
filled in. Traditional historiography operates outside the realm of corporeality because it …

This thesis deals with the Old Norse poem Sonatorrek, today typically read in the saga Egils
saga Skallagrímssonar, where it is attributed to the tenth-century skald Egill Skallagrímsson …

This article examines the properties of powerful stones in medieval Iceland, focusing on the
applications of such stones in learned treatises and in saga literature. The relationships …

In his twelfth-century treatise Skaldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson illustrates how kennings for
the breast envisage it as the 'land', or part of the landscape, of the 'mind'(hugr, geð, sefi …