Dr Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (Lecturer in Scandinavian history) is helping to oversee the translation of the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók into Norwegian. The project is led by Professor Torgrim Titlestad (University of Stavanger), who sees the manuscript’s sagas and stories about the kings of Norway as an underappreciated source of information about Norway from the Viking […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jeff Love
Congratulations to Jeff Love who has been awarded a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen from October 2012 to collaborate on the project ‘The Icelandic Fornaldarsagas’ led by Matthew Driscoll.
Continue ReadingSutton Trust Summer School
From 13th – 17th August, the Department will be hosting its annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. The Summer School is held in association with the Sutton Trust, a philanthropic organisation which seeks to promote social mobility through education. Eleven teenagers from non-privileged backgrounds will be spending a week in the […]
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