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Teaching
and Research interests:
Old Norse-Icelandic literature, textual culture
and language, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia,
medieval understandings of the past, medieval
views on language, Old Norse-Icelandic learned
literature (including grammatical, theological
and mythological literature and literature on
poetics), medieval translations, medieval modes
of interpretation, the Latin/vernacular interface.
Current projects: North of
Babel – on the rise of vernacular literature
in the North
The Fourth Grammatical Treatise – an edition
of the text with translation and commentary
(in collaboration with Margaret Clunies Ross,
Sydney).
Selected Publications
(A complete and always up-to-date listing can
be found in my CV at http://berkeley.academia.edu/Wellendorf)
Books: (Move over title for
cover photo)
2009
Kristelig
visionslitteratur i norrøn tradition.
Bibliotheca Nordica 2. Oslo: Novus [Christian
Vision Literature in Old Norse Tradition, monograph]
2008
Oral
Art Forms and Their Passage into Writing.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum [volume edited
in collaboration with Else Mundal].
Articles:
2010
"The
Interplay of Pagan and Christian Traditions
in Icelandic Settlement Myths", Journal
of English and Germanic Philology 109, 1 pp.
1–21.
"The Attraction
of the Earliest Old Norse Vernacular Hagiography",
in Saints and Their Lives on the Periphery:
Veneration of Saints in Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe (c. 1000–1200) (eds. Haki
Antonsson and Ildar Garipzanov), pp. 241–258.
Cursor Mundi 9. Turnhout: Brepols.
2009
"Om højsædestolper, klokker
og døre" in Á austrvega.
Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of
the 14th International Saga Conference
(eds. Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Fredrik
Charpentier Ljungqvist). Gävle, pp. 1016–1023.
"Apocalypse
Now? Draumkvædet and the Visionary Literature"
in Oral Art Forms and Their Passage into
Writing (eds. Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf),
pp. 135–149. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum
Press.
2007
"Når
engle skælver: Vredens dag i norrøn
litteratur", Arr: Idéhistorisk
tidsskrift 2007, 4, pp. 3–13 [When
Angels Tremble: The Day of Wrath in Old Norse
Literature].
"Middelalderlige
rejser i den anden verden", Prosopopeia
14, 2, pp. 22–27. [Medieval Journeys in
the Other World]
2006
"Homogeneity
and Heterogeneity in Old Norse Cosmology"
in Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
(eds. Anders Andrén et al.). Lund: Scandinavian
University Press, pp. 50–53.
"Over
mytologiske floder", Maal og Minne
2006, 1, pp. 15–30 [Across Mythological
Rivers].
"Visions
and the Fantastic" in The Fantastic
in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature – Sagas
and the British Isles (eds. John McKinnell
et al.). Durham, pp. 1025–1033.
2003
"Ideologi
og trosforestillinger i Óláfs
þáttr Geirstaðaálfs",
Nordica Bergensia 29, s. 147–169
[Ideology and Beliefs in Óláfs
þáttr Geirstaðaálfs].
Minora:
2010
"Konungs
skuggsjá", in Oxford Dictionary
of the Middle Ages (ed. Robert E. Bjork),
p. 939. Oxford: Oxford University Press [Lexicon
article]
"Sermon
Literature (Scandinavian)", in Oxford
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ed. Robert
E. Bjork), pp. 1523–1524. Oxford: Oxford
University Press [Lexicon article]
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