Two Major New Projects
Books
1. The Feminist Companion to
Mythology. (London and San Francisco: Pandora Press, 1992). [A
collection of essays under my editorship. I contributed the
Scandinavian section and the Introduction.] Now reprinted as The Woman's Companion to Mythology.
(1997).
2. A Store of Common Sense - Gnomic
Themes and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry.
English Monographs Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
3. Women and Writing in Medieval
Europe: A Sourcebook. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995).
[All writings selected and many translated by myself, thematically
arranged and with a broad historical introduction to each section].
4. The Poetic Edda: translated
with an introduction and notes. (Oxford: World's Classics, 1996).
5. The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old
Norse Mythology (Co-edited with Dr Paul Acker, University of St
Louis). (New York and London: Routledge, 2002).
6. King Arthur’s Enchantresses:
Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition. (London: IB
Tauris, 2006).
Articles
and Essays
1. ‘Hávamál and sources outside Scandinavia.’ Saga Book of the Viking Society, 23
(1992): 141-57.
2. ‘Egill's Longer Poems: Sonatorrek and Arinbjarnarkviða.’ In Introductory Essays on Egils saga and
Njáls saga, (London: Viking Society, 1992): 49-63.
3. ‘Scandinavia’ in The Feminist
Companion to Mythology ed. Carolyne Larrington, (London and San
Francisco: Pandora Press, 1992).
4. ‘What does Woman Want? Mær and
munr in Skírnismál.’ Alvíssmál 1 (1992):
3-16.
5. ‘Friendship in Old Norse and Old English Wisdom Poetry.’ In Celtic and Germanic Themes in
European Literature, (ed.) N. Thomas, (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen
Press, 1993): 61-76.
6. ‘Leizla Rannveigar: Gender
and Politics in the Other World Vision.’ Medium Ævum, 64 (1995):
230-49.
7. ‘The Fairy Mistress: A Medieval Literary Fantasy.’ In Writing and Fantasy, eds. Ceri
Sullivan and Barbara White, Longman Cross-Currents Series, (Harlow:
Longman, 1999): 32-47.
8. ‘Representing the Presentation: Medieval Mystics and the Candlemas
Vision.’ In New Trends in Feminine
Spirituality: The European Impact of the Holy Women of Liège,
eds. Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. (Brussels:
Brepols, 1999): 195-214.
9. ‘Some recent developments in the psychology of emotion and their
relevance to the study of the medieval period.’ Early Medieval Europe 10, (2001):
251-56.
10.‘Freyja and the Organ-Stool: Neo-Paganism in
Sólarljóð.’ In Germanisches
Altertum und christliches Mittelalter, ed. B. Broyanyi,
(Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2002): 177-196.
11. ‘Vafþrúðnismál
and Grímnismál:
Cosmic History, Cosmic Geography’. In The
Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology. Eds. P. Acker and C.
Larrington, (New York and London: Routledge, 2002): 62-77.
12. ‘”Undruðusk þá, sem fyrir var”: wonder,
Vínland and mediaeval travel narratives’, Medieval Scandinavia 14 (2004):
91-114.
13. ‘Diet, Defecation and the Devil: Disgust and the Pagan Past.’ in Medieval Obscenities ed. Nicola
Macdonald, (Woodbridge and Rochester NY: University of York Press and
D.S. Brewer, 2006): 138-55.
14. ‘Loki’s Children’ in The
Fantastic in Old Norse / Icelandic Literature / Sagas and the British
Isles, (Preprint papers of the 13th International Saga
Conference, Durham and York, 6th-12th August 2006. Eds. J. McKinnell,
D. Ashurst, D. Kick (Durham: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 2006) 2 vols. I, 541-50.
15. ‘Myth and the Psychology of Memory’, in Old Norse religion in long-term
perspectives, eds. A. Andrén, K. Jennbert, C. Raudvere,
Vägen til Midgards 8 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006), 272-5.
16. ‘Translating the Poetic Edda’ in Old
Norse Made New, eds. D. Clark and C. Phelpstead (London: Viking
Society, 2007), 21-42.
17. ‘The Enchantress, the Knight and the Cleric: Authorial Surrogates
in Arthurian Romance’, Arthurian
Literature 25, (2008), 43-65.
18. ‘Awkward Adolescents: Male Maturation in Norse Literature’, Youth and Age in the Medieval North
ed. Shannon Lewis-Simpson, (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 145-60.
19. ‘English Chivalry and Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight’. In Blackwell
Companion to Arthurian Literature, ed. H. Fulton (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2009), 252-64.
20. ‘A Viking in Shining Armour?: Vikings and chivalry in the
fornaldarsögur’, Viking and
Medieval Scandinavia 4 (2008), 269-88.
21. ‘Stjúpmœðrasögur and Sigurðr’s Daughters’,
preprints of the Fourteenth International Saga Conference, Uppsala,
August 2009, pp. 559-66.
22. ‘Queens and Bodies: the translated Arthurian lais and Hákon
IV’s Kinswomen’, Journal of English
and Germanic Philology 108, (2009), 506-27.
Editions
(With Peter Robinson), Sólarljóð
in Skaldic Poetry of the
Scandinavian Middle Ages, vol VII, Part 1, gen. ed. M. Clunies
Ross (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 287-357.
Multi-Media
'Women and Poetry in Old Norse.' (with Dr Judith Jesch, University of
Nottingham) in Voicing Medieval Women
, Chaucer Studios, University of Adelaide, 1996.
Exhibition Catalogue
Knights Tour - Knights Bachelor
(Milton Keynes: JNSculpture, 2005). 24 pp.
Review Articles
cover article: 'Land of Ice and Fire' Times Literary Supplement,
January 8, 1999.
cover article: ‘Peter Ackroyd’s Tales, Times Literary Supplement, July
9, 2009.
Forthcoming (Work in Press)
‘Sibling Drama: Laterality in the Heroic Poems of the Edda’, to be
published in a Festschrift, ed. D. Anlezark (2010).
‘The Translated Lais’ in The Arthur
of the Norse, ed. Marianne Kalinke (University of Wales: 2010).
‘”Rageful Agency”: Sisters and Chivalry in the Post-Vulgate Grail Quest’, in Arthur in the Antipodes, ed. Andrea
M. L. Williams (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).
‘Þóra and Áslaug in Ragnars saga loðbrókar:
women, dragons and destiny’, in Making
History: Essays on the Fornaldarsögur, ed. Martin Arnold
and Alison Finlay (London: Viking Society, 2010).
‘Völsunga saga, Ragnars saga and romance in Old Norse: revisiting relationships’, in Uppruni og þróun fornaldarsagna Norðurlanda, ed. Ármann Jakobsson, Annette Lassen and Agnete Ney (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2010).
‘Sibling Relations in Malory’s Morte
Darthur’, Arthurian Literature,
2011.
Work in Progress
‘Melvin Burgess’s Bloodtide and Bloodsong: Sigmundr, Sigurðr and
Young Adult Literature’, given at ‘Eddische Götter und Helden –
Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption’, J. W. Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt, 25-27 June 2009. To be published in edited volume from
Frankfurt.
‘”I have long desired to cure you of old age”: Mothers, Siblings and
Murder in the later Heroic Poems of the Edda’. To be published in Revisiting the Poetic Edda.
‘New Thoughts on Old Wisdom’, paper given at Cambridge-Bergen Symposium
‘Wisdom and Advice in Old Norse Literature’, Finse Norway, 11-13 April
2007.
‘Gods and Beasts: Animals and the Divine in Norse Myth’ given at
International Symposium on Old Norse Myth, University of Århus,
Denmark, 22-23 November 2007.
‘Brynhildr’s Laughter, Guðrún’s Weeping: Performance,
Performatives and Emotion in Old Norse heroic poetry’, paper given at
The Cultural History of Emotions in Premodernity, 23-26 October 2008,
Umeå University, Sweden
‘The Illustrations of the Merlin and Merlin Continuation in BL
Add. 38117’. Given at the 21st International Arthurian Congress,
Utrecht, July 2005. To be developed as journal article.
‘Shame and Guilt in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi’. Conference
paper given at Celtic Studies Colloquium, UCLA, March 2002.