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Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir - Professor
–
Hugvísindasvið
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
Medieval Icelandic literature
Location
Edda
Phone
525 - 5416
Email
adalh [at] hi.is
Unit
Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website
http://uni.hi.is/adalh/
Published Work
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
Wednesdays, 14.00-14.30
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-5631
Research portal – Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
 
 
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
ÍSL205G - Icelandic Literary History
ÍSB825F - Rímur and Medieval Saga Literature
ÍSL517M - Literature and magic
Education
2002
,
Doktorspróf
,
University of Iceland
,
Dr. phil.
1993
,
Kandídatspróf
,
University of Iceland
,
Cand.mag. in Icleandic literature
1989
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
BA in Icelandic
Professional Experience
2016 -
,
Professor in Medieval Icelandic literature,
University of Iceland
2012 -
2015,
Senior Lecturer in Folkloristics,
University of Iceland
2006 -
2012,
Adjunct in Folkloristics,
University of Iceland
2008 -
2010,
Sigurður Nordal Research Fellow,
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
2005 -
2008,
Rannís Research Fellow,
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
1995 -
2008,
Part time lecturer in Icelandic,
University of Iceland
2000 -
2006,
Part time lecturer in Folkloristics,
University of Iceland
Published works
2023
Brönu saga
Völsunga saga
Hvers konar rit er Sturlunga?
Skíðaríma
Fornaldarsögur (Legendary Sagas)
Guðrúnarbrögð hin nýju
Fjórir kaupmenn og klæðskiptingur
Ritið
Prefazione
2022
Bókmenntir í blárri móðu
Ritið
2021
Um (ó)merkilegar sögur
Tímarit Máls og menningar
Handan Hindarfjalls
Mythological Motifs and Other Narrative Elements of Volsunga saga in Icelandic Folk- and Fairytales
FF Communications
Norðvegur
Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore
Íslenskar bókmenntir
Mythological Motifs and Other Narrative Elements of Vǫlsunga saga in Icelandic Folk- and Fairytales
2020
Philip Levander, Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibility of Narrative and the Case of Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020). 401 pp.
1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Arthurian Legend in Rímur and Ballads
2019
Góður sagnaþulur gerir góða sögu betri
Breiðfirðingur
Of Wavering Flames and Fires
Arv
2018
Reflexes of the fornaldarsögur in Icelandic poetry
Stóð og stjörnur
Hvenær eru konur menn?
2017
Some Heroic Motifs in Icelandic Art
Scripta Islandica
Behind the cloak, between the lines
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Glitvoðir genginna alda
Gripla
2016
Tales of Generation
Scripta Islandica
Af konum og kvendrekum
How Do You Know If It Is Love or Lust?
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literature
2015
A Footnote to a Footnote
A Footnote to a Footnote
A Footnote to a Footnote
Gunnarr Gjúkason and images of snake-pits
Berðu mér ei blandað vín
Són: tímarit um óðfræði
2014
Strengleikar in Iceland
Gunnar og Göngu-Hrólfur, Brynhildur og Brana
Magic and Texts
Arv
The Narrative Role of Magic in the fornaldarsögur
Arv
Tveir rósagarðar og tvö handrit í Kaupmannahöfn
The Other World in the Fornaldarsögur and in Folklore
2013
The Dancers of De la Gardie 11
Mediaeval Studies
Fylgjur í íslenskri þjóðtrú
Kúnst eða kunnátta?
The Tradition of Icelandic sagnakvæði
RMN Newsletter
Karlar og kerlingar
Kreddur
2012
Sagomotiv på de gotländska bildstenarna
Gunnarr and the Snake Pit in Medieval Art and Legend
Speculum
Heilagur húmor
Old French lais and Icelandic sagnakvæði
The Origin and Development of the Fornaldarsögur as Illustrated by Völsunga Saga
2010
Brunichildis
Af betri konum og bóndadætrum
Om hringbrot og våbendanse i islandsk tradition
Kulturstudier
Rímur
Dance in Scandinavia
Af sögufróðri kerlingu úr Fljótshlíðinni
2009
Siðferði gleðinnar
Saga: tímarit Sögufélags
Strengleikar
Um teikningar í Uppsala-Eddu
Þar sem Sigmundur og Artúr mætast
Dancing images in Medieval Iceland
2008
Fra balladedans til hringbrot og sværddans
A Fornaldarsaga on Stage
2007
Örlagaþræðir Sigurðar Fáfnisbana
The Werewolf in Medieval Icelandic Literature
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
2006
Interrogating genre in the fornaldarsögur
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
On supernatural motifs in the fornaldarsögur
Yfirnáttúruleg minni í Fornaldarsögum Norðurlanda
How Icelandic Legends Reflect the Prohibition on Dancing
Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore
Strengleikar
Interrogating genre in the fornaldarsögur
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
2005
Sögur frá Fróðarsteini
2004
Strengleikar in Iceland
2003
DFS 67
Gilitrutt, hin forna gyðja
2001
Um berserki, berserksgang og amanita muscaria
Skírnir
Úlfhams saga
1997
(Ó)traustar heimildir.
Skáldskaparmál
1995
Stjúpur í vondu skapi
Tímarit Máls og menningar
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