Publications

Books

2024:

Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. Co-authored with Ross Hagen.

Keywords: critical whiteness studies, reception of Old Norse mythology, ethnomusicology, peer reviewed.

The Icelandic and Swedish Rune Poems. Limited Edition. Olympia, Washington: Hyldyr Publishing.

Keywords: Old Norse literature, early modern Scandinavian literature, not peer reviewed.

2023:

Völuspá: The Vision of the Witch. Limited Edition. Olympia, Washington: Hyldyr Publishing.

Keywords: Old Norse literature, Old Norse mythology, pre-Christian Nordic religion, not peer reviewed.

The Little Book of Viking Age Symbols. Limited Edition. Olympia, Washington: Hyldyr Publishing. Co-Authored with Jacqueline Alberts and Joseph Hopkins.

Keywords: Old Norse literature and culture, Vendel era culture, early Germanic culture, archaeology, reception of Nordic culture, Old Norse mythology, reception of Old Norse mythology, not peer reviewed.

The Danish and Norwegian Rune Poems. Limited Edition. Olympia, Washington: Hyldyr Publishing.

Keywords: Old Norse literature, Old High German literature, Old Saxon literature, medieval Norwegian culture, pre-Christian Nordic culture, not peer reviewed.

2021:

Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology: Myth and Environment in Early Iceland. Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities Press.

Keywords: Old Norse literature and culture, Old Norse mythology, pre-Christian Nordic religion and culture, Viking Age studies, medieval Icelandic studies, medieval Norwegian studies, medieval Danish studies, peer reviewed.

Peer-reviewed book chapters and articles

2024:

“Myrkur as Mother North: Feminist Digressions in Black Metal Culture.” Digressions and the Human Imagination: Tracing the Indirectness of Cultural Creativity, ed. Morten Nielsen. London: Routledge. Pp: 117-128.

Keywords: feminism studies, gender studies, heavy metal music studies.

2023:

“Spellbinding Skálds. Music as Ritual in Nordic Neopaganism.” Living Folk Religions, eds. Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Ullrey. London: Routledge. Pp: 191–203. Co-authored with Padraic Fitzgerald.

Keywords: critical whiteness studies, reception of Old Norse religion, history of religion, neopagan studies.

2022:

“From Barbarian to Lord: The Influence of Männerbund-theories on Alt-right Author Jack Donovan’s Literature.” The Wild Hunt for Numinous Knowledge: Perspectives on and from the Study of Pre-Christian Nordic Religions in Honour of Jens Peter Schjødt, eds. Karen Bek-Pedersen, Sophie Bønding, Luke John Murphy, Simon Nygaard and Morten Warmind. Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift Thematic Edition,74. Pp: 743–63.

Keywords: critical whiteness studies, reception of Old Norse religion, history of religion, neopagan studies, masculinity studies, gender studies.

2021:

“Aggressive Masculinity and Environment in the Icelandic Landnám.” Limes. Studies and materials from the history of middle-east Europe: Grettis Little Sword. Constructing Masculinity in Old Norse Culture, eds. Remigiusz Gorgosz and Ásdís Egilsdóttir. Rzeszów: University of Rzeszów Press. Pp: 48–64.

Keywords: Old Norse literature and culture, pre-Christian Nordic religion, masculinity studies, gender studies, ecocriticism.

2020:

“Chapter 38: Cosmology.” Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Histories and Structures, eds. Anders Andrén, Jens Peter Schjødt, and John Lindow. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp: 1001–1016.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, pre-Christian Nordic religion.

“Chapter 37: Cosmogony.” Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Histories and Structures, eds. Anders Andrén, Jens Peter Schjødt, and John Lindow. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp: 989–1000.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, pre-Christian Nordic religion.

2019:

“Katla the Volcanic Witch: A Medieval Icelandic Recipe for Survival.” American/Medieval Goes North: Earth and Water in Transit, eds. Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Weithaus. Göttingen: V&R Unipress. Pp: 67–86.

Keywords: Old Norse literature, Icelandic folklore, ecocriticism.

2018:

“Nature and Mythology.” Handbook of Old Norse Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, eds. Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Jürg Glauser. Berlin: De Gruyter. Pp: 539–548.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, memory studies, ecocriticism.

“Neo-paganism.” Handbook of Pre-Modern Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, eds. Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Jürg Glauser. Berlin: De Gruyter. Pp: 728–733.

Keywords: critical whiteness studies, reception of Old Norse mythology, reception of pre-Christian religion.

“Are There Echoes of the AD 536 Event in the Viking Ragnarok Myth? A Critical Appraisal.” Environment and History, 24,3. Pp: 303–324. Co-authored with Felix Riede.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, archaeology, ecocriticism.

2017:

“Creation from Fire in Snorri’s Edda. The Tenets of a Vernacular Theory of Geothermal Activity in Old Norse Myth.” Old Norse Mythology in Comparative Perspectives, eds. Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Jens Peter Schjødt, with Amber Rose. Cambridge Massachusetts and London: The Milman Parry Collection on Oral Literature, Harvard university. Harvard University Press. Pp: 269–289.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, volcanism, geology, ecocriticism.

2016:

“Learning from the Past – Teaching Past Climate Change and Catastrophes as Windows onto Vulnerability and Resilience.” Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, eds. Stephen Siperstein, Stephanie Lemenager, and Shane Hall. New York: Routledge. Pp: 126–135. Co-authored with Felix Riede et. al.

Keywords: Old Norse literature, geology, ecocriticism, climate change.

“At fange havets ånd. Økoviden i den nordiske mythologi.” Chaos. Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, 64. Pp: 77–98.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, ecocriticism, Danish language.

2015:

“What Happens When ‘Hider’ and ‘Screamer’ Go Sailing with ‘Noisy’? Geomythological Traces in Old Icelandic Mythology.” Past Vulnerability. Volcanic Eruptions and Human Vulnerability in Traditional Societies Past and Present, ed. Felix Riede. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. Pp: 75–88.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, volcanism, geology, ecocriticism.

2014:

“Skjaldemjødens betydning i den oldnordiske kulturkreds. Belyst i to litterære fremstillinger fra middelalderens Island.” Drikkekultur i middelalderen, eds. Kasper H. Andersen and Stefan Pajung. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. Pp: 27–48.

Keywords: Old Norse literature and culture, Old Norse mythology, medieval Iceland.

2013:

“A Method for Analyzing World-Models in Scandinavian Mythology.” Approaching Methodologies, 2nd Revised Edition with Introduction by Ulrike Wolf-Knuts, eds. Frog and Pauliina Latvala with Helen F. Leslie. Sastamala: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Pp: 377–398.

Keywords: Old Norse mythology, folklore studies, structuralism.