Haki Antonsson
‘Love – Magic – Impotence – Divorce: An Authorial Trace in Njáls saga’
Haki Antonsson is Professor of Medieval Scandinavian Studies at University College London. His broad research interests are in the society, literature, and culture of Scandinavia during the medieval period. In particular, he has focused on the cult of saints, the Christianization of the North, and the historical contextualisation of Old Norse literature.
Significant publications include St Magnús of Orkney: A Scandinavian Martyr-cult in Context (Brill, 2007), Saints and the Lives on the Periphery: Veneration of Saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (ca. 1000-1200), ed. with Ildar Garipzanov (Brepols, 2010) and Damnation and Salvation in Old-Norse Literature (Boydell and Brewer, 2018). He has also published a number of articles in Gripla, Scandinavian Studies, and Saga Book. He is also a major figure in the Viking Society for Northern Research.
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
‘The Love Script in the Norse Tristanian Tradition’
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature at Háskoli Íslands. Her research is focused on cross-cultural and comparative studies of medieval literature, emotion theory, particularly literary emotionality, literary history, translation studies, voice and gender. Her monograph Emotions in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017) considers a wide range of Old Norse materials - from translated romances through Eddic poetry and Íslendingasögur (sagas of Icelanders) to indigenous romance.
She was co-editor of (among others) Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds (Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2022) and A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020). In 2019 she was awarded a a Research Project Grant from the Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNÍS) for research on textual emotions and the concept of emotive performativity 'Emotion and the Medieval Self in Northern Europe'