Judith left a comment on: "Looking for a catalog or list of Mjolnir pendants and other representations of Thor's hammer in the archaeological record. Any ideas?" "Tim Pestell of Norwich Castle Museum is just finishing a paper on Thor's hammers."
Judith started following the work of Stephen Harrison, Trinity College Dublin, medieval History Research Centre.
Judith started following the work of Jenny Murray, University of St Andrews, School of Art History.
Judith is on her way to Orkney and Shetland, hooray!
Faculty Member, English
Professor of Viking Studies
About
My expertise focuses on a variety of texts composed and written in Old Norse-Icelandic. These include:
◦poetry of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, originally oral and now surviving in written versions of the 13th century or later, especially that usually termed 'skaldic'
◦runic inscriptions from the 8th to the 15th century
◦Icelandic sagas, especially the Kings' Sagas and other historical works, and the Sagas of Icelanders.
I have extensive research experience in the general and cultural history of the Viking Age in Scandinavia and in areas settled by Scandinavians, with a broad knowledge of interdisciplinary approaches and an interest in questions of orality and literacy, and of migration, diaspora and cultural memory. I also have research experience in the more general history, literature and culture of Norway, and of Scandinavian Scotland.
My current research centres on the relationships of language, texts and contexts in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, with a particular focus on runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and historical sagas. My specific major projects within these three areas at the moment are:
◦an English dictionary of Viking Age and medieval Scandinavian runic inscriptions (see http://runic-dictionary.nottingham.ac.uk).
◦the poetry of Sigvatr Þórðarson and Rögnvaldr, Earl of Orkney, which I am editing for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages project (see http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php).
◦the literary and cultural history of Scandinavian Scotland, especially Orkney.
I also write on questions of orality and literacy, geography, migration and diaspora, and Scandinavian contacts with the British Isles.
I am currently director of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age (http://viking.nottingham.ac.uk) and also directed the AHRC-funded Viking Identities Network from 2006-2009 (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/csva/vin/). I am an 'utländsk arbetande ledamot' of Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien in Uppsala, Sweden.
For a full list of my publications, see the following page:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/English/People/judith.jesch
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