Old Norse-Icelandic Studies

Professor Margaret Clunies Ross, McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature (Old Norse mythology; Old Norse-Icelandic poetry and poetics; Old Icelandic treatises on poetry, especially the Edda of Snorri Sturluson; the reception of Old Norse poetry after the Middle Ages); see also under Anglo-Saxon Studies and Medievalism.

Currently holds 5-year ARC Discovery Grant, ‘Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, poetics and myth’. Current research projects: (with international team) preparation of a new edition of the corpus of Old Norse skaldic poetry; research and writing of a book on Old Norse poetry and poetics; research and writing of a book on the Old Norse literature of fantasy.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
ed. book, Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 42. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy. Making the Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001.
Diana Whaley, Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Gade, Edith Marold, Guðrún Nordal and Tarrin Wills, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Editors’ Manual, 2nd. rev. edn. Sydney, Centre for Medieval Studies, 2002.
ed. book, Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society. The Viking Collection 14. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, forthcoming late 2002.

Associate Professor Geraldine Barnes (Old Norse-Icelandic medieval romance (riddarasögur), the post-medieval history of the concept of Vinland and the Viking presence in America); see also under Middle English Studies and Medievalism.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Viking America. The First Millennium. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001.

Dr. Tarrin Wills, ARC-funded Research Associate on Clunies Ross et al. skaldic editing project (research interests also in electronic editing and databases; Old Icelandic grammatical treatises; the history of runes and runology)
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Diana Whaley, Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Gade, Edith Marold, Guðrún Nordal and Tarrin Wills, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Editors’ Manual, 2nd. rev. edn. Sydney, Centre for Medieval Studies, 2002.
'Electronic Editing of the Skaldic Corpus', skandinavistik 32:1 (2002), 25-30.

Dr. Kate Heslop, ARC-funded Research Assistant on Clunies Ross project on the Old Norse literature of fantasy; recently awarded a PhD for a thesis on Old Icelandic skaldic poetry in sagas of Icelanders, supervisor Clunies Ross. From 2004-2006, Dr Heslop will be Research Fellow funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Board under the direction of Dr. Diana Whaley, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, working on verses in the kings’ sagas for the Skaldic Poetry of the Middle Ages project.

Ms Anna Hansen, APA-holder and PhD student in Old Icelandic (thesis on representations of childhood in Old Icelandic saga literature, supervisor Barnes)