In 1897 Andrew Lang referred to Glámr, one of Iceland's most celebrated mediaeval ghosts,
as a “vampire” in his The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. This article examines the arguments …

THERE ARE NOT MANY KIND wORDS to be said about the notion of 'race'. In the last
century alone, it has shown itself to be a way of thinking that both lacks any basis in …

University of Oxford is a versatile literary motif in the íslendinjjasòjjur, which authors had at
their disposal to use in a wide range of settings whether at the splendid Norwegian court, an …

Opinionsof what is real may vary a great deal; thus realism must boil down to an uneasy
contract between a text and its audience where the audience chooses to believe in the …

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic
practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship …

This article addresses the changing meaning of the word álfr (plural álfar) in Norse-Icelandic
from the Middle Ages to the present day and notes that, contrary to the myth of a continuity in …

An Internet troll is a person who deliberately upsets users of online forums or social media.
The term has been taken up widely in media discourses about democracy and the Web …

This article concerns the contradictions in the portrayal of the Old Norse god Óðinn in two
13th century Icelandic sources, Snorra-Edda and Heimskringla. It is argued that these …

To the medievalist, the field of disability studies offers unique challenges. In short, disability
studies is a critical, interdisciplinary field designed to investigate the interaction between …

The present article investigates the unique features of Icelandic geographical terrain and its
impact upon cognitive reality of medieval Iceland. The focus is on saga depictions of Viking …