Publications  to March 2009

Books

The Feminist Companion to Mythology. (London and San Francisco: Pandora Press, 1992). 480 pp. [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).

A Store of Common Sense - Gnomic Themes and Style in Old Icelandic and Old  English Wisdom Poetry. English Monographs Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). 243 pp.

 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. 280 pp.].

 The Poetic Edda: translated with an introduction and notes. (Oxford: World's Classics, 1996). 323 pp.

The Poetic Edda: Essays in Old Norse Mythology, eds. Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington, (New York and London: Routledge, 2002). 978-0815316602. 300 pp.

King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition, London: I. B. Tauris, 2006. 978-1845111137. 288 pp.

Articles and Essays

 'Hávamál and sources outside Scandinavia.' Saga Book of the Viking Society, 23 (1992), 141-57.

'Egill's Longer Poems: Sonatorrek and Arinbjarnarkvid a.' In Introductory Essays on Egils saga and Njáls saga, (London: Viking Society, 1992), 49-63.

'What does Woman Want? Mær and munr in Skírnismál.' Alvíssmál 1 (1992), 3-16.

'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.

'Leizla Rannveigar: Gender and Politics in the Other World Vision.' Medium Ævum, 64 (1995), 230-49.

'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.

'The Candlemas vision and Marie d’Oignies’s role in its dissemination.' In New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their impact, eds. Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. (Brussels: Brepols, 1999), pp. 195-214.

'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.

'Freyja and the Organ-Stool: Neo-Paganism in Solarljóñ.' In Germanisches Altertum und christliches Mittelalter, ed. B. Broyanyi, (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2001), 177-196.

'Vafãrúñnismál and Grímnismál: Cosmic History, Cosmic Geography'. In The Poetic Edda, eds. Paul Acker and Carolyne Larrington. (New York: Garland, 2002), 59-77.

'Undruñusk ãau sem fyrir var': Wonder, Vínland and Medieval Travel Narratives', Medieval Scandinavia 14 (2004) 91-114.

'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.

‘Myth and the Psychology of Memory’, in Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives, eds. A. Andrén, K. Jennbert, C. Raudvare, Vägen til Midgards 8 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006), 272-5. 

‘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. ISBN 0-9553335-0-7.

‘Translating the Poetic Edda’ in Old Norse Made New, eds. D. Clark and C. Phelpstead (London: Viking Society, 2007), 21-42.

‘The Enchantress, the Knight and the Cleric: Authorial Surrogates in Arthurian Romance’, Arthurian Literature 25, (2008), 43-65.

  ‘Awkward Adolescents: Male Maturation in Norse Literature’, Youth and Age in the Medieval North  ed. Shannon Lewis-Simpson, (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 145-60.

‘English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’. In Blackwell Companion to Arthurian Literature, ed. H. Fulton (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 252-64.


<>Scholarly 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, May 1996. [A recording of writings by, and texts concerning, medieval women. Dr Jesch and I translated the Old Norse texts for the accompanying booklet  and performed them on tape in the original language].

 

Exhibition Catalogue
Knights Tour - Knights Bachelor (Milton Keynes: JNSculpture, 2005). 095394672X. 24 pp.

Review Article

 cover article: 'Land of Ice and Fire' Times Literary Supplement, January 8, 1999.

Forthcoming (in Press)


‘A Viking in Shining Armour?: Vikings and chivalry in the fornaldarsögur’, forthcoming in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4 (2008).

‘Queens and Bodies: the translated lais and Hákon IV’s Kinswomen’, forthcoming in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2009.

‘Sibling Drama: Laterality in the Heroic Poems of the Edda’, to be published in a collection from University of Toronto Press, ed. D. Anlezark (2009).

‘Strengleikar, Möttuls saga and Skikkjurímur’ in The Arthur of the Norse, ed. Marianne Kalinke (University of Wales: 2009).

‘Rageful Agency: Sisters and Chivalry in the Post-Vulgate Grail Quest’,   in Arthur in the Antipodes, ed. Andrea Williams (Turnhout: Brepols), 2009.

<>In Progress


‘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 Aarhus, 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