Issue One

A Letter From the Editor

Amy Jefford Franks

Foreword

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

Men’s Business? Two Female Skalds of the Uppsala Edda and the Origins of Poetry

Anna Solovyeva

“Am I Not a Woman Like Thyself?” — The Transvestite Male Rapist Narratives of Óðinn and Rindr, and Ewen and Thaney

Andrew Bull

The Women of Ljósvetninga saga

Ela Sefcikova

Beating a Dead Horse… Or Two: Bj. 581

Elsa Simms

Review: Bad Boys and Wicked Women: Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature. Edited by Daniela Hahn and Andreas Schmidt. München: Herbert Utz Verlag. 2016.

Arngrímur Vídalín

Review: Ármann Jakobsson. The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North. punctum books: 2017.

Rebecca Merkelbach

Meet Some Gender Stereotypes at the National Museum in Copenhagen: A Review of the Meet the Vikings Exhibition

Campbell Grade

Saga Conference, 12-17 August 2018, Reykjavík & Reykholt, Iceland

Amy Jefford Franks

The Aarhus Mythology Conference in Uppsala, 15-16 November 2018

Amy Jefford Franks

TAG Deva, 17-19 December 2018, Chester, England

Kathryn Ania Haley-Halinski

Gender and Medieval Studies: Gender and Aliens, 7-10 January 2019, Durham University

Andrea Freund & Rebecca Merkelbach

Eco-Norse: Land and Landscapes in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, 23 February 2019, Oxford, England

Jonas Koesling

The Richard Hall Symposium 2019: Women and Power in the Viking World, 24 February 2019, York, England

Cassidy Croci

Gendering Viking Age Rulership, 28 February – 1 March 2019, Katowice, Poland

Amy Jefford Franks