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John Lindow

Literature

#46

World Rank

#171

Historical Rank

#22

USA Rank

Philology

#24

World Rank

#87

Historical Rank

#2

USA Rank

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Literature

John Lindow's Degrees

PhD Scandinavian Languages and Literatures University of California, Berkeley
Masters Scandinavian Languages and Literatures University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Scandinavian Languages and Literatures University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, John Frederick Lindow is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California, Berkeley. He is a well known authority on Old Norse religion and literature.

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Published Works

Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (2002) (81)
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (2019) (60)
The Ring of Dancers: Images of Faroese Culture (1980) (26)
Supernatural Others and Ethnic Others: A Millenium of World View (1995) (22)
Medieval folklore : a guide to myths, legends, tales, beliefs, and customs (2002) (21)
Handbook of Norse Mythology (2001) (18)
Murder and vengeance among the gods: Baldr in Scandinavian mythology (1997) (15)
Structure and meaning in old Norse literature : new approaches to textual analysis and literary criticism (1988) (15)
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs (2001) (14)
Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area (2010) (14)
Comitatus, individual and honor: Studies in north Germanic institutional vocabulary (1976) (12)
Swedish Legends and Folktales (1978) (11)
Swedish Legends of Buried Treasure (1982) (11)
Trolls: An Unnatural History (2014) (10)
'Islendingabok' and Myth (1997) (10)
Fragments of Lappish Mythology (2006) (9)
RIDDLES, KENNINGS, AND THE COMPLEXITY OF SKALDIC POETRY (2016) (9)
Rites of Passage in Scandinavian Legends (1978) (7)
Some Controversial Aspects of the Myth of Baldr (2009) (7)
Memory and Old Norse Mythology (2014) (5)
Bloodfeud and Scandinavian Mythology (1998) (5)
The social semantics of cardinal directions in medieval Scandinavia (1994) (4)
Thor's Visit to Útgar∂aloki (2000) (4)
Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography (1988) (4)
Bengt Holbek and the Study of Meanings in Fairy Tales (2000) (4)
Place Names in Eddic Poetry (2016) (3)
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North (2020) (3)
Sailing and interpreting the ships on the Gotland stones (1993) (3)
A Note on the Sources of Redundancy in Oral Epic (1974) (2)
Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints (2001) (2)
Continuity in Swedish Legends (2016) (2)
Cats and Dogs, Trolls and Devils: At Home in Some Migratory Legend Types (2010) (1)
Software tools and the folklore archive: A different perspective (1986) (1)
NORSE MYTHOLOGY AND NORTHUMBRIA: METHODOLOGICAL NOTES (2016) (1)
Eddic poetry and mythology (2016) (1)
Akkerisfrakki: Traditions concerning Óláfr Tryggvason and Hallfreðr Óttarsson vandræðaskáld and the Problem of the Conversion (2007) (1)
36- The Divine, the Human, and In Between (2020) (1)
Ϸrymskviða , Myth and Mythology (1997) (1)
NORSE MYTHOLOGY AND NORTHUMBRIA: A RESPONSE (2016) (1)
St Olaf and the Skalds (2008) (1)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend. Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf, eds (1990) (1)
Kidnapping, Infanticide, Cannibalism: A Legend from Swedish Finland (1998) (1)
The Challenge of Folklore to Medieval Studies (2018) (1)
Manslaughter, Fornication and Sectarianism: Norm-breaking in Finland and the Baltic Area from Mediaeval to Modern Times (review) (2005) (1)
0- Introduction (2020) (0)
54- Minor Gods and Goddesses (2020) (0)
Introduction: From Oral to Written Mythology (2021) (0)
Conclusion (2021) (0)
Den lange dag (1980) (0)
Fragments of Lappish Mythology (review) (2006) (0)
Mythology And Mythography (2019) (0)
4- Language: Religious Vocabulary (2020) (0)
40- Vanir and Æsir (2020) (0)
Skald Sagas in their Literary Context 1: Other Icelandic Genres (2020) (0)
47- Njǫrðr (2020) (0)
Internal Review Team (2008) (0)
Michigan Germanic Studies, 7/1: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions . Ann Arbor: Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1981. Paper. Pp. ii, 213; numerous black-and-white figures. Annual subscription $15. (1983) (0)
A QUEST FOR MEANING IN FAIRY TALES (2016) (0)
46- Baldr (2020) (0)
Saga og Språk: Studies in Language and Literature presented to Lee M. Hollander. John M. Weinstock (1975) (0)
Gustav Storm's 1899 Heimskringla as (1995) (0)
JOHN LINDOW (2010) (0)
21- Ethics (2020) (0)
From Cosmogony to Cosmic Eschatology (2021) (0)
Poetry, Dwarfs, and Gods: Understanding Alvíssmál (2007) (0)
Trolls in the Isefjord (2007) (0)
INTERPRETING BALDR, THE DYING GOD (2017) (0)
Ritual and Hierarchy in Old Norse Mythology (2022) (0)
Cannibalism: A Legend from Swedish Finland (2016) (0)
The Testimony of the Hoofprints: Danish Legends about the Medieval Union Queen Margrethe (2021) (0)
Books received 2005 (cont.) (2007) (0)
Old Norse Mythology and Ideology (and Entertainment) (2021) (0)
Some Thoughts on Saxo’s Euhemerism (2012) (0)
Myths & legends of the Vikings : illustrated from the monuments of ancient Nordic art (1979) (0)
3- Written Sources (2020) (0)
34- Worlds of the Dead (2020) (0)
3.6. The Rise of Folklore Studies (2018) (0)
35- Fate (2020) (0)
Same Place, Different Time: Temporal Aspects of Imagined Landscapes in Some Northern Contexts (2021) (0)
Inger Ekrem (†), Lars Boje Mortensen, eds., and Peter Fisher, trans., Historia Norwegie . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2003. Pp. 245 plus black-and-white figures and maps on endpapers; 1 black-and-white figure. $31 (2005) (0)
Groups, Lists, Features: Snorri’s Ásynjur (2018) (0)
10- The Linguistic Frame (2020) (0)
Old Norse Mythology as Sacred Narrative (2021) (0)
From Legend to Myth? (2020) (0)

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