Rosalind Love and Simon Keynes’ work on the Encomium Emmae Reginae has been mentioned in Issue 12 of Research Horizons magazine. You can read the article here.
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The Saga-Steads of Iceland
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in medieval Icelandic literature, Emily Lethbridge, is planning an ambitious and exciting project for 2011: a year-long ’21st-century pilgrimage to the saga-steads of Iceland’. Emily will travel around the country reading each one of the 13th-century Íslendingasögur (the Icelandic family sagas) in the physical landscapes in which they and their 9th-, 10th-, […]
Continue ReadingDr Rowe on Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ 9am Thursday, 11 November: Dr Elizabeth Rowe, lecturer in Scandinavian Medieval History, joins Melvyn Bragg and other guests to discuss the Volga Vikings. In the 8th century AD a group of Norsemen travelled through the land now known as Russia into Central Asia and founded settlements there. They penetrated […]
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