This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin.

Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque". A family of Norwegian pag

Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving writte

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which thi