The AHRC has awarded a £60,000 collaborative training grant for PhD students and Early-Career Researchers in Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies for 2013-14 to a consortium made up of the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge and Oxford and the British Museum. The project, Languages, Myths and Finds: Translating Norse and Viking Cultures for the 21st Century, […]

Funding has been awarded to Dr Judy Quinn and Dr Debbie Potts from the pilot AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund to support the projects ‘Kennings in the Community’ and ‘Modern Poets on Viking Poetry’. Dr Potts will be based in the Department for three months from February to April 2013 to develop the projects and organise […]

The Research Centre of St John’s College Oxford has awarded pump-priming funding for the initial stages of an international research project, ‘Interpreting Eddic Poetry’, to Dr Carolyne Larrington (Oxford) and Dr Judy Quinn (Principal Investigators). The project will support an interdisciplinary research network which will convene for its first Workshop ‘Interpreting Eddic Poetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ […]