Old Norse

Related Faculty

Russell Black
Lecturer Part-Time
Timothy Bourns
Assistant Professor
Caroline Brekkan
Acting Instructor of Swedish
Lauren Poyer
Associate Teaching Professor

Latest News

Tim Bourns at UC Berkeley: Animal Minds in the Medieval North (March 6, 2026)
The Patricia L. Conroy Endowment Fund for Old Icelandic, Old Norse and Faroese Studies (February 15, 2013)

Related Research

'Cats in Medieval Icelandic Life and Literature', in The Cat's Pyjamas: Cats in Culture and Society, eds. Charlotte Doesburg and Riitta Valijarvi (Freeland (Oxfordshire): Inter/Connexions) [forthcoming]
'Introducing Eco-Norse: Settlement, Environment, and Narrative in Medieval Iceland', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London) [forthcoming]
'Driftwood and the Divine: Ecocritical Readings of trémenn', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London) [forthcoming]
'Blood, Rain, and Tears: Eco-Emotive Metaphor in the Medieval North', in Cultural Models for Emotions in the North Atlantic Vernaculars, 700–1400, eds. Edel Porter and Javier E. Díaz-Vera (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), 201–19
'Trees, Temporal Eternity, and the Norse Mythos', Medieval Ecocriticisms 5 (2025), 85–105
‘Can We Access a Counter-Narrative to the Vínland Sagas through Kalaallit Oqaluttualiaat?’, in Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Norse Colonies and Indigenous Peoples, eds. Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, and Erik Wolf (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, December 2024), 49–74
‘Animal Emotionality and Selfhood in Old Norse Textual Culture', Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8.1 (June, 2024), 97–115
'Trees in the Saga Dreamscape', in Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture, eds. Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 65–85
Connors, Colin Gioia. 2022. "Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and The eSaga Project." In Culture Work: Folklore and the Humanities for a 21st Century Public, ed. Tim Frandy & Marcus Cederström, pp.302-11. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
‘Becoming-Animal in the Icelandic Sagas’, Neophilologus 105.4 (August, 2021), 633–53