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Journal Articles & Book Chapters

• 2022 [in print]. ‘Distinguishing Discourse of the dísir’, in Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift 74.
• 2022, with Heidi Fuller, Peter L.T. Willan, and Monte A. Gates. ‘An Anatomy of the Blood Eagle: The Practicalities of Viking Torture’, Speculum 97.1:1-39
• This article received international press coverage, including in The Smithsonian Magainze (US), Fréttablaðið (Iceland), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), La Opción de Chihuahua (Mexico), Forskning.no (Norway), The Sun (UK), and over fifty other outlets around the world. For a general-audience presentation of our study, you can read our article in The Conversation.
• 2020. ‘Towards a Phrasebook of Methodology in Viking Studies: A Perspective from the Study of Religion’, The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 15:7-21
• 2020, with Carly Ameen. ‘The Shifting Baselines of the British Hare Goddess’, Open Archaeology 6
• 2020, with Naomi Sykes, , Greger Larson, et al. ‘Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges’, Animals 10:1-18
• 2018. ‘Paganism at Home: Pre-Christian Private Praxis and Household Religion in the Iron-Age North’, Scripta Islandica 69:49-97
• 2018, with Malene Lauritsen, Richard Allen, Joel Alves, Carly Ameen, Thomas Fowler, Evan Irving-Pease, Greger Larson, Alan Outram, Esther Pilgrim, Philip Shaw, and Naomi Sykes. ‘Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their Associated Alien Fauna’, World Archaeology 50
• 2018. ‘Processes of Religious Change in Late-Iron Age Gotland: Rereading, Spatialisation, and Enculturation’, in Place and Space in the Medieval World, ed. Meg Boulton, Heidi Stoner, and Jane Hawkes. Routledge Research in Art History 1 (London: Routledge), 32-46
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• 2017, with Simon Nygaard. ‘Processioner i førkristen nordisk religion’, in Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift 66:40-77
• 2016. ‘Continuity and Change: Forms of Liminality in the Sacred Social Spaces of the Pre-Christian Nordic World’, in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 12: 147-82
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• Forthcoming [in print], with Giulia Mancini. ‘Rehabilitating Comparativism in the Study of Old Norse Myth and Religion’, in Methodology in Old Norse Mythology, ed. Bob van Strijen, Giulia Mancini, Jonas Koesling, Amy Jefford Franks, Jesse Barber. The Viking Collection (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark).

Books

• 2022 [in print]. The Wild Hunt for Numinous Knowledge: Perspectives on and from the Study of Pre-Christian Nordic Religions. Edited with Karen Bek-Pedersen, Sophie Bønding, Simon Nygaard, and Morten Warmind.
• 2020. Selected Presentations from the Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse (2017-2019), ed. with Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, Simon Nygaard, and Beth Rogers (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services)
• Forthcoming [in preparation]. Ravens to Wraiths: Valkyries and the Praxis of Mythology in Iron-Age Scandinavia

Pedagogical Publications

• 2018. ‘Speaking Scandinavian at Work: Strategies for Effective Communication from the Classroom to the Lunch Room’, in The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding, ed. Christopher McMaster, Caterina Murphy, and Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson (Pieterlen & Bern: Peter Lang Publishing)

Pre-Prints, Conference Reports, and Project Reports

• 2019. ‘Conference Report: Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse: Trends and Challenges in Early Career Scholarship Workshop’, The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 13
• 2017. ‘PhD Dissertation Project: Between Unity and Diversity’, in The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 12:199-203
• 2015. ‘The Scale of ‘Private’ Religions in Pre‐Christian Scandinavia: Theoretical and Empirical Questions’, in The Sixteenth International Saga Conference: Sagas and Space, 9th-15th August 2015, University of Zürich and University of Basel, Switzerland, ed. Jürg Glauser, Klaus Müller-Wille, Anna Katharina Richter, and Lukas Rösli, 2 vols. (Universität Zürich: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Skandinavische Studien), 214-15
• 2012. ‘Valkyrjur, Wælcyrgan, and Witches: An Anatomy of Old-English and Old-Norse Valkyries’, in The 15th International Saga Conference: Sagas and the Use of the Past. 5th-11th August 2012, Aarhus University. Preprints, edited A. Mathias Valentin Nordvig and Lisbeth H. Torfing (Aarhus: Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Department of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts), 237
• 2012. ‘Conference Report: Old Norse Mythology in the Digital Age’, in The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 5: 62-65
• 2010. ‘Holy Groves, Rocky Places, and Sacral Constructions: The Establishment of Sacred Social Space in Viking-Age Pre-Christian Scandinavia’ in The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter 1: 51-2

Book Reviews

• 2020. Review of, ‘Margaret Clunies Ross (ed). The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and Reception, 2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. XXIII+635 pages.’ in Saga Book of the Viking Society
  • Please contact me for a copy of this review.
• 2019. Review of, ‘Anatoly Liberman. In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture. Moscow: Paleograph Press, 2016. 588 pages.’ in Saga Book of the Viking Society 43, 166-169
  • Please contact me for a copy of this review.
• 2016. Anmeldelse af/Review (in Danish) of ‘Michael D. J. Bintley. Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England. Anglo-Saxon Studies 26. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. X + 206 sider’ in Chaos: Skandinavisk tiskrift for religionshistoriske studier 66, 195-199

Unpublished Theses & Dissertations

• 2017. ‘Between Unity and Diversity: Articulating Pre-Christian Nordic Religion and its Spaces in the Late Iron Age’, unpublished PhD Dissertation, Aarhus University
• 2013. ‘Herjans Dísir: Valkyrjur, Supernatural Feminities, and Elite Warrior Culture in the Late Pre-Christian Iron Age’, unpublished MA Thesis, University of Iceland
• 2009. ‘Holy Groves, Rocky Places, and Sacral Constructions: The Establishment of Sacred Social Space in Viking-Age Pre-Christian Scandinavia’, unpublished MA Dissertation, University of York

Other Publications

• 17.12.2021. ‘The brutal Viking 'blood eagle' ritual execution was anatomically possible – new research’, The Conversation
• 11.2017. ‘Vikings Against The Academy: Junior Scholars Unite in the Face of Looming Career and Mental-Health Crises’, editorial on medievalists.net

Forthcoming Research Articles & Chapters

• ‘From Rings and Representations to Bells and Books: Objects in Old Norse Religious Ritual’, in The Völva: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, ed. Leszek Gardeła, Peter Pentz, Sophie Bønding, and Peter Vang Petersen. (Oxford: Oxbow Books).
• with Simon Nygaard. ‘Processions and Ritual Movement in Pre-Christian Scandinavia Revisited’, in The Völva: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, ed. Leszek Gardeła, Peter Pentz, Sophie Bønding, and Peter Vang Petersen. (Oxford: Oxbow Books).
• ‘Modern Mythology? Translating Hávamál in Twenty-First Century Heathenry’
• ‘Animal Offerings, Iconography, and Behaviour: Ritual Props in Iron Age Britain’
• ‘The Material Culture of pre-Christian Ritual in Settlement-Era Iceland’
• ‘Adaptions and Importations: Native and Invasive in the Material Culture of Early Christian Scandinavia’
• ‘Religious ‘Stuff’ in the Romanisation of Britain and the Christianisation of Scandinavia: A Comparative Study of How Ritual Props Can Drive Long Term Religious Change’
• ‘Processes of Religious Change in Late-Iron-Age Gotland: Centralisation, Enclosure, Privatisation, and Nationalisation’
• ‘Distinguishing dísir: Supernatural Women, Emic Categorisation, and Poetic Synonyms’
• ‘Sacred Grove or Holy Hall? Synthesising the Spaces of Pre-Christian Religion in the Late Iron Age’