Dr Hannah Burrows

MA, PhD York
Research Associate

+61 2 9351 2572
Room N305, John Woolley Building A20

Research Areas

• Old Norse-Icelandic literature, language and cultural history
• The interaction between law and literature in medieval Iceland
• Humour in Old Norse literature

Current Projects

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Pre-Christian Religions of the North ('Research and Reception' strand)

Publications 2005-2011

Journal articles

• Rhyme and Reason: Lawspeaker-Poets in Medieval Iceland’. Scandinavian Studies, 81.2 (2009), 215-38.
• Cold Cases: Law and Legal Detail in the Íslendingasögur. Parergon, 26.1 (2009), 35-55.
• The Secret Lives of Lawspeakers: The portrayal of lögsögumenn in the Íslendingasögur’. Á austrvega: Saga and East Scandinavia. Preprint papers of the 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, 9th-15th August 2009. Ed. Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Frederik Charpentier Ljungqvist. 2 vols. (Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2009). I, 151-59.
• 'In this country, what is found in books is to be law': Legal Knowledge, Literacy and the Shifting Spheres of Power in Medieval Iceland, Quaestio Insularis 8 (2007), 36-50.

Teaching

ENGL3536 An Introduction to Old Norse

ENGL3636 Continuing Old Norse

ENGL2657 Myths, Legends and Heroes