Jonas Wellendorf

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Associate Professor; ON SABBATICAL FALL 2024
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Old Norse
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Professor Wellendorf’s research interests focus on the interface between vernacular Old Norse literature and the Latin tradition. He is particularly interested in learned literature, broadly defined, mythography, historiography, skaldic poetry, and Old Norse treatises on grammar and poetics.

His doctoral dissertation (Bergen, 2017) concentrated on Old Norse vision literature. Since then, he has published extensively on Medieval Scandinavian Literature. Common to these studies is that Old Norse texts are studied against the backdrop of a wider classical and medieval Latin tradition.

In Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds (Cambridge, 2018), Wellendorf explored the evolving perceptions of pre-Christian Scandinavian myth and religion over a span of five centuries (1200–1700). Currently, he is working on an edition of the Old Norwegian Book of Homilies (AM 619 4to) and a second book on Norse mythology (Working title: The Lives and Deaths of the Norse Gods).

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