Dr Hannah Burrows works on early Scandinavian literature, culture and society. Her current research examines the language used in Old Norse poetry to express ideas about the natural world and humanity's relationship with it. Hannah is Bibliography Editor for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages project, and has edited the poetry from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. She has also published on literary-legal connections in medieval Iceland, riddles, Norse mythology, and translation.
Professor Ralph O'Connor (PhD [Cambridge]) is Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland. He teaches in the departments of Celtic & Anglo-Saxon, History, and English. His Nordic research focuses chiefly on the Sagas of Icelanders, legendary sagas and chivalric sagas, including comparisons with medieval Irish literature; but he welcomes enquiries about graduate research in any aspect of Norse-Icelandic literature. He is the author of Icelandic Histories and Romances (2002) and The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (2013), and is currently completing a monograph on the rise of fiction in mediaeval and modern Icelandic saga-writing, funded by a 2-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
