Congratulations to Dr Katherine Olley who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Viking Studies in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, starting in September. Katherine graduated from ASNC in 2019 with a PhD on ‘Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts’, supervised by Professor Judy Quinn. Since […]

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic is deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Dr Colmán Etchingham, Emeritus Lecturer in the Departments of Early Irish and History at Maynooth University (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/early-irish-sean-ghaeilge/news/dr-colm-n-etchingham). Dr Etchingham had a long association with the Department: he served as MPhil External Examiner (2007-2010) and delivered the Kathleen Hughes […]

Congratulations to former ASNC PhD student Dr Emily Osborne, whose volume of poetry Safety Razor — which includes translations of Old Norse skaldic verse — has just been published: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/safety-razor