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Research
interests: Old
Norse-Icelandic literature, mainly mythology
and poetry; Scandinavian folklore, mainly legends;
Finno-Ugric folklore.
Teaching Experience: Medieval
Scandinavian language, literature, and culture;
Viking and medieval Scandinavia; Scandinavian
mythology; Scandinavian, European, Arctic and
Subarctic folklore. Teaching generally focuses
on the interpretation of texts in social and
historical context. Affiliated with Finnish
Studies Program, Religious Studies Program,
and the graduate degree programs in Folklore
and Medieval Studies.
Current projects: Monographs
on Thor, Odin and Freyja.
Selected Publications
Books: (Move over title for
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Norse
Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals,
and Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002. New edition of Handbook
of Norse Mythology. Santa Barbara,
Denver and London: ABC-Clio, 2001.
Medieval
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends,
Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.
Ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow.
Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-Clio,
2000.
Murder
and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian
Mythology. FF Communications,
262. Helsinki: Akademia Scientiarum Fennica,1997.
Scandinavian
Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography,
Garland Publishing, 1988.
Old
Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide.
Ed. with Carol Clover. Cornell Univ. Press,
1985 -- Reprint University of Toronto Press,
2005.
Swedish
Legends and Folktales, UC Press,
1978.
Comitatus
Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic
Institutional Vocabulary, UC
Press, 1976.
Recent Articles:
“The
Strong Housewife: ML 5080.” In The
Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels
Ingwersen, ed. Thomas A. DuBois and Susan
Brantley (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2009), 61-78.
“Mapping
Identity in Bárðar saga.” In
Greppaminni - afmælisrit til heiðurs
Vésteini Ólasyni sjötugum,
ed. Margrét Eggertsdóttir et al
(Reykjavík: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag,
2009), 247-58.
“When
Njörðr Chose Skaði.” In Romance
and Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland:
A Festschrift in Honor of Marianne Kalinke,
Islandica, 53, ed. Kirsten Wolf (Ithaca: Cornell
University Library, 2009).
“Poetry,
Dwarfs and Gods: Understanding Alvíssmál.”
In Learning and Understanding in the Old
Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies
Ross, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern
Europe, 18, ed Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop, and
Tarrin Wills (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp.
287-305.
“St
Olaf and the Skalds.” In Sanctity
in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval
Scandinavia, ed. Thomas A. DuBois (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 103-27.
“Changelings,
Changing, Re-exchanges: Thoughts on the Relationship
between Folk Belief and Legend.” In LEGENDS
AND LANDSCAPE: Plenary Papers from the 5th Celtic-Nordic-Baltic
Folklore Symposium, Reykjavík, 15th-18th
June 2005, ed. Terry Gunnell (Reykjavík:
Háskólaútgáfan,
2008 ), pp. 215-34.
“Folklore’s
Debt to the Study of Language: Documenting Folklore
and Documenting Language and Dialect in the
Nordic Countries.” In Combat pour
les langues du monde - Fighting for the world's
languages, Hommage à Claude Hagège
(Textes réunis par M.M.J. Fernandez-Vest),
Paris, Ed.
L'Harmattan, Collection Grammaire & Cognition,
N° 4, 2007, pp. 327-37.
“Trolls
in the Isefjord (A Danish Folktale)” [Co-author
with Marijane Osborne]. ANQ 20 (2007):
51-53.
"Akkerisfrakki:
Traditions Concerning Óláfr Tryggvason and Hallfređr
Óttarsson vandrćđaskáld and the Problem of the
Conversion." Journal of English and Germanic
Philology 108 (2007): 64-80.
"Poets and Poetry in Myth and Life: The Case
of Bragi." In Old Norse Religion In Long-Term
Perspectives: Origins, Changes And Interactions:
An International Conference in Lund, Sweden
June 3-7, 2004. Vägar till Midagĺrd, 8. Ed.
Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharine
Raudvere (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006),
21-25.
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