Publication date: October, 2025
Pages: 335
ISBN 978-615-6696-82-3 Paperback, €48.00
ISBN 978-615-6696-81-6 Hardcover, €74.00
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DOI number: 10.22618/TP.ONS.2025v2
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Voluspå – Broen fra hedendom til kristendom
Gro Steinsland
De natura deorum: Few Theses on Gods and Pantheons
Jan A. Kozák
Hvers konar heimild er Edda?
Gísli Sigurðsson
Í dyngju kvenna
Heimir Pálsson
Life, Death and a Warrior’s Morality
Declan Taggart
Technology in Old Norse Myth: The Case of Snorra Edda
Jens Eike Schnall
Gods, Dwarves, and Humans: Vǫluspá Sts. 9–18
Rory McTurk
Fannst det kvinnelege einherjur, og kva var i tilfelle dei mytologiske implikasjonane?
Else Mundal
Valkyries Propagating, Propagating Valkyries: A Mythological Feedback Loop
Luke John Murphy
Spittle-Man and the Talking Head: Hostages, Boundaries, and Transformations in the Peace Settlement of the æsir and vanir
John Lindow
Hœnir – Being a Chicken in Old Norse
Karen Bek-Pedersen, Benjamin Weber Pedersen
Why is Eggþér Happy – and who is he? On the Herder and the Roosters in Vǫluspá 42–43, with Digressions on Harps and Gosling-Trees
Henning Haglskær Kure
Nerthus f. > Njǫrðr m.: A Speculative Proposal
Stefan Brink
Hyrrokkin – Monster or Mighty Priestess?
Ingunn Ásdísardóttir
A Dragon Is No Idle Fancy: Loki’s Spawn and Thor’s Bane
Ármann Jakobsson
Valhöll í íslensku landslagi
Svavar Sigmundsson
Recognizing the Sacrality of Helgafell
Thomas A. DuBois
“Everything in Rings is Bound”: The Foundation Myth of Gotland
Olof Sundqvist
Cattle, Snakes, and Milk: Decoding Western Slavic Jewellery from the Viking Age
Leszek Gardeła
From Artefacts to Ritual Drama: Revisiting Käring(a)sjön in Halland
Anders Andrén
Runic Poetry as Oral Poetry: Some Formulae from the Viking Age
Simon Nygaard
Gátur Gestumblinda: Leikrænn þáttur í Heiðreks sögu
Vésteinn Ólason
When a God Dreams: hví væri Baldri ballir draumar
Stephen A. Mitchell
The Performance of Hárbarðsljóð – but Isn’t that Your Line?
Frog
Forging Occasions: Exploring the Performative Framework in skáldasögur
Inés García López
Dangerous Women by the Shore: Reading Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis through Graeco-Roman Myth and Legend
Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Old Norse Worlds in The Northman
Neil Price
Góðar hugsanir frá Bandamönnum
Sveinn Einarsson
The Works of Terry Gunnell
Assembling a cast of friends, companions, and colleagues, this Festschrift takes the stage as a tribute to Professor Terry Gunnell’s lasting legacy in the studies of folkloristics, Old Norse mythology, and performance. The volumes represent a living script of academic discourse, presenting essays across various scholarly theatres, ranging from pre-Christian Scandinavia to contemporary folklore narratives. This Festschrift takes a bow as a celebration of Terry Gunnell’s far-reaching academic impact and intellectual generosity, bringing together critical analyses of mythological narratives, archaeological perspectives and conceptual thoughts on tradition and its transmission.
Dr. Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, folklorist and independent scholar at The Reykjavík Academy
Dr. Felix Lummer, external lecturer in Old Nordic Religion and Belief at the University of Iceland
Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, associate research professor at the Arnamagnæan Institute
Dr. Júlíana Þóra Magnúsdóttir, adjunct lecturer in Folkloristics at the University of Iceland
Dr. Katrín Lísa van der Linde Mikaelsdóttir, researcher and project manager at the Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, University of Iceland
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