Ármann Jakobsson

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According to Wikipedia, Ármann Jakobsson is an Icelandic author and scholar. Biography Ármann was born and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland. His father was a banker and his mother a psychologist. His sister is Katrín Jakobsdóttir, prime minister of Iceland. Ármann holds a PhD from the University of Iceland, graduating in 2003. Ármann became a lecturer in Early Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland in 2008. He was a senior lecturer from 2008–2011, and then a full professor from 2011. From 2022, he is the president of the Icelandic Literary Society and chairman of the Icelandic language commission since 2020. His first novel was published in 2008, and since then he has published eleven works of fiction. He has been nominated twice for the Icelandic literature prize, and was on the IBBY honour list of 2016. Many of his novels engage with medieval and folkloric themes. His first novel was a historical novel taking place in 1908, during the heated debate about Icelandic independence. As a medievalist scholar, Ármann has published extensively on Old Norse literature, focusing on medieval attitudes towards kingship as an institution, childhood and old age, masculinities, paranormal figures and concepts and most recently on disability in the Middle Ages. As a teenager, Ármann competed alongside his twin brother, Sverrir Jakobsson, in the quiz show Gettu betur, winning the competition in 1990. In 2020, he read the most famous of the sagas, Njáls saga, on Icelandic radio. From 2020, he is the editor of the scholarly journal Andvari.

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Oral microbiota associated with hyposalivation of different origins. (2003) (84)
Beast and Man: Realism and the Occult in Egils saga (2011) (15)
Masculinity and politics in Njals saga (2007) (14)
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (2017) (12)
Vampires and Watchmen: Categorizing the Mediaeval Icelandic Undead (2011) (10)
The Extreme Emotional Life of Völundr the Elf (2006) (9)
The Legendary Sagas : Origins and Development (2012) (8)
The Taxonomy of the Non-existent: Some Medieval Icelandic Concepts of the Paranormal (2013) (8)
Egils saga and Empathy: Emotions and Moral Issues in a Dysfunctional Saga Family (2008) (8)
Our Norwegian Friend: The Role of Kings in the Family Sagas (2002) (7)
Beware of the Elf! A Note on the Evolving Meaning of Álfar (2015) (7)
'Laxdaela' dreaming: a saga heroine invents her own life (2008) (7)
The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North (2017) (7)
Where Do the Giants Live (2006) (6)
The Fearless Vampire Killers: A Note about the Icelandic Draugr and Demonic Contamination in Grettis Saga (2009) (5)
The Life and Death of the Medieval Icelandic Short Story (2013) (5)
The Royal Ideology and Genre of Hrólfi saga kvaka (1999) (4)
Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator (2009) (4)
Enabling Love: Dwarfs in Old Norse-Icelandic Romances (2008) (3)
The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (2005) (3)
Le Roi Chevalier: The Royal Ideology and Genre of "Hrólfi saga kraka" (2016) (3)
Microbiology; Oral Medicine: Oral microbiota associated with hyposalivation of different origins (2003) (3)
Image is Everything: The Morkinskinna Account of King Sigurðr of Norway’s Journey to the Holy Land (2013) (3)
The Patriarch: Myth and reality (2008) (2)
Young Love in Sagaland: Narrative Games and Gender Images in the Icelandic Tale of Floris and Blancheflour (2014) (2)
Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance by Nicolas Meylan (review) (2016) (1)
Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll (2018) (1)
Some Types of Ambiguities in the Sagas of the Icelanders (2004) (1)
Tradition and the Individual Talent: The “Historical Figure” in the Medieval Sagas, a Case Study (2014) (1)
A contest of cosmic fathers (2008) (1)
Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway (2009) (1)
Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe (2020) (1)
The Big Black Cats of Vatnsdalr and Other Trolls: Talking about shapeshifting in medieval Iceland (2018) (1)
Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas (2020) (1)
THE AMPLIFIED SAGA: STRUCTURAL DISUNITY IN "MORKINSKINNA" (2001) (1)
The Homer Of The North or: who was Sigurður the Blind? (2014) (0)
Conventions and Abbreviations (2009) (0)
The Big Black Cats of Vatnsdalr and Other Trolls (2018) (0)
The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason. Oddr Snorrason , Theodore M. Andersson (2005) (0)
The Impetuosness of þráinn Sigfússon Leadership, virtue and villainy in Njáls saga (2009) (0)
2.1.4. Remnants of Indigenous Beliefs in the Other World in Saga Literature (2018) (0)
King Arthur and the Kennedy Assassination: The Allure and Absence of Truth in the Icelandic Sagas (2013) (0)
Afterword: Whatever Happened to the Sagas? (2019) (0)
A Personal Account: The Official and the Individual in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (2017) (0)
Oddr Snorrason, The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason , trans. Theodore M. Andersson. (Islandica, 52.) Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 180; 1 genealogical table. $55. (2005) (0)
From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom: State Formation in Norway, c. 900–1350 by Sverre Bagge (review) (2014) (0)
Bergbúa þáttr: The Story of a Paranormal Encounter (2018) (0)
Chapter 22. Royal Biography (2008) (0)
Afterword: Otherness, Monstrosity and Deviation: The Perpetual Making of Identities (2020) (0)
Shami Ghosh: Kings’ Sagas and Norwegian History: Problems and Perspectives (The Northern World, vol. 54) (2012) (0)
Law Personified. The Ignored Climactic Speeches of Brennu-Njáls saga (2020) (0)
Snorri and His Death: Youth, Violence, and Autobiography in Medieval Iceland (2003) (0)
Poetry from the King’s Sagas 1: Parts 1 and 2 ed. by Diana Whaley (review) (2015) (0)
Disability in Medieval Iceland (2021) (0)
“I See Dead People”: The Externalization of Paranormal Experience in Medieval Iceland (2020) (0)
Two wise women and their young apprentice A miscarried magic class (2007) (0)
2. The Big Black Cats of Vatnsdalr and Other Trolls (2018) (0)
Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (review) (2009) (0)
6. Thorolf’s Choice: Family and Goodness in Egil’s Saga, Ch. 40 (2015) (0)
Reproduction: Scandinavian Studies 1 (2011) (0)
Rebecca Merkelbach:Monsters in Society. Alterity, Transgression and the Use of the Medieval Past in Medieval Iceland (2021) (0)
Watch Out for the Skin Deep: Medieval Icelandic Transformations (2022) (0)

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