Old Norse

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Russell Black
Lecturer Part-Time
Timothy Bourns
Assistant Professor
Colin Connors
Electronic Media Producer
Lecturer
Lauren Poyer
Associate Teaching Professor

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The Patricia L. Conroy Endowment Fund for Old Icelandic, Old Norse and Faroese Studies (February 15, 2013)

Related Research

‘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
‘The Language of Birds in Old Norse Tradition’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.2 (April, 2021), 209–38
Connors, Colin Gioia. 2021. "A Social Analysis of Place-Names in Hrafnkels saga." PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
'Meat and Taboo in Medieval Scandinavian Law and Literature', Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 14 (2018), 61–80
Connors, Colin Gioia, trans. 2015. The eSaga of Hrafnkell Freysgoði: A New Translation of “Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða." Apple Inc.: iTunes Store. IBA file.
'Mythological and Heroic Motifs in Manx Stone Sculpture', in Viking Myths and Rituals on the Isle of Man, eds. Leszek Gardeła and Carolyne Larrington (Rzeszow: Mitel, 2014), 22–29