Three early medieval Germanic languages—Old English, Old High German, and Old Norse—
contain related words for a supernatural female being: mære in Old English, mara in Old …

The role of alcohol in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has received considerable attention from
scholars. Some of this work has examined the social effects of consuming alcohol …

This thesis examines the evolution of the Viking image in US popular culture, from the
publication of Antiquitates Americanæ, a scholarly work on the Vinland sagas, by Danish …

The increasing influence of continental chivalric romances on medieval Icelandic and
Norwegian literature had a profound effect on discourses of gender in Norse texts, reflected …

The Old Norse-Icelandic word mál, variously “measure, speech, poetry, case, matter,” is
strategically called on at various points throughout Kormáks saga. Its diverse significations …

In the Íslendingasögur young men often travel abroad. In this thesis I analyse these travels
and the events that follow them and the connection between these events and honour …

This thesis explores the function and significance of written textiles in the Íslendingasögur
and a selection of poems from The Poetic Edda. This thesis defines 'written textiles' as …

Reading Icelandic Sagas against a medieval legal background in a First-Year Writing
Seminar is a useful way to teach students the bones of academic argument. When the …

Introduction one of the determinative conventions of the sagas of Icelanders is that
introductory chapters name the ancestors of its principals and through capsule accounts of …

Nuanced and difficult as Loki's character can sometimes be, he is not without precedent in
the Old Norse literary tradition. Instead, much of what makes him challenging to pin down …