Paul Acker is an associate professor of English at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse (New York: Garland, 1998). He was a coeditor of Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1993) and translator of Valla-Ljóts saga and Floamanna saga for The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson, 1997).
Philip N. Anderson was a professor at Portland State University where he taught and published on medieval Germanic literature.
Katrina Attwood earned a Ph.D. in Icelandic Studies from the University of Leeds. She has published on Christian skaldic poetry in Saga-Book of the Viking Society and she translated “The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent- Tongue” for The Sagas of Icelanders (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000).
Carol Clover is the Class of 1936 Chair of the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches Old Norse in the Department of Scandinavian and film in the Department of Rhetoric. Her publications include The Medieval Saga (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982); Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide (with John Lindow; Cornell University Press, 1985); and a number of articles pertaining to the sex-gender system of early Scandinavia. She is currently working on the role of legal trials in saga narrative.
Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of a two- volume work on Old Norse mythology and its modern reception, Prolonged Echoes (Odense: Odense University Press, 1994, 1998) and editor of Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Among her current projects are a collaborative edition of skaldic poetry and a study of the Old Norse literature of fantasy.
Jerold C. Frakes is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in the Medieval German Women’s Epic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). He is currently editing an anthology of early Yiddish texts.
Joseph Harris is Professor of English and Folklore at Harvard University. Among his recent publications are Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997; edited with Karl Reichl), “The Dossier on Byggvir, God and Hero” (Arv, 1999), and “‘Double scene’ and ‘mise en abyme’ in Beowulfian Narrative” in Gudar på jorden: Festskrift till Lars Lönnroth, ed. Stina Hansson and Mats Malm (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2000).
Thomas D. Hill is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is a principal investigator for the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture project and has written numerous articles on Old and Middle English and Old Norse literature.
Svava Jakobsdóttir is a well-known Icelandic writer of novels, plays and short stories. Her novel Gunnlaðarsaga (Reykjavík: Forlagið, 1987) is a fictional treatment of events in the Eddic poem Hávamál.
Carolyne Larrington is tutor in medieval English literature at St. John’s College, Oxford. She has translated The Poetic Edda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) and written on Old Norse mythology. She is currently writing a book on the Arthurian enchantress Morgan le Faye.
Lars Lönnroth is Professor emeritus of Literature at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. He is the author of European Sources of Icelandic Saga-Writing (Stockholm: Thule, 1965); Njáls saga: A Critical Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976); and numerous articles on medieval Scandinavian literature and culture including “The Vikings in History and Legend” in The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, ed. Peter Sawyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). A festschrift in his honor (ed. Stina Hansson and Mats Malm) was published in 2000.
John McKinnell is Reader in Medieval Literature at the University of Durham, a general editor of Durham Medieval Texts and a past president of the Viking Society. He is the author (with Maria Elena Ruggerini) of
Both One and Many: Essays on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism (Rome: Il Calamo, 1994) as well as a number of essays on individual Eddic poems.
Preben Meulengracht Sørensen is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is the author of The Unmanly Man: Concepts of Sexual Defamation in Early Northern Society (Odense: Odense University Press, 1983) and Saga and Society: An Introduction to Old Norse Literature (Odense: Odense University Press, 1993). He is coeditor with Else Roesdahl of The Waking of Angantyr: The Scandinavian Past in European Culture (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1996). A festschrift in his honor (ed. Trine Buhl) was published in 2000.
Judy Quinn taught in the Department of English at the University of Sydney before taking up the post of University Lecturer in Old Norse at Cambridge University in 2000. She has published on Old Icelandic poetics and the female prophetic voice in medieval Scandinavian verse and sagas.