Dr Brittany Schorn
Research Associate, Gersum Project
Contact Information
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
9 West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DP
Email: bs321@cam.ac.uk
Departmental and College Responsibilities
- Research Assocate, Gersum Project
Academic Interests
- Old Norse Language and Literature
- Old English Language and Literature
Selected Publications
- ‘Wisdom’, in A Critical Companion to Genre in Old-Norse/Icelandic Literature, eds. M. Bampi, C. Larrington and Sif Rikharðsdóttir (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer) (forthcoming)
- ‘Mythology within Bounds: Heroic Narrative in Eddic Poetry’, in Epic and Romance, a Guide to European Literature, ed. L. Neidorf (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer) (forthcoming)
- Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry: ‘How Can His Word Be Trusted?’(Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017)
- (editor, with C. Larrington and J. Quinn) A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- ‘Eddic Modes and Genres’, in A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia, eds. C. Larrington, J. Quinn and B. Schorn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 231–51
- ‘Eddic Style’, in A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia, eds. C. Larrington, J. Quinn and B. Schorn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 271–87
- (editor, with J. Quinn) The Vikings in Lewis, Languages, Myths and Finds 2 (Nottingham, 2014)
- ‘Divine Semantics’, Scripta Islandica 64 (2013), 67–98
- ‘Eddic Poetry for a New Era: Tradition and Innovation in Sólarljóð and Hugsvinnsmál’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 7 (2011), 131–49
