{"id":227,"date":"2024-10-03T05:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:00:19","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"227\" class=\"elementor elementor-227\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c13808 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0c13808\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a5256c e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4a5256c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e04ac7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7e04ac7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Team<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df54733 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df54733\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e072e6d e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e072e6d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba5f3b e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3ba5f3b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93d25e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"93d25e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Audur-Hauksdottir1-scaled-ra045xmdnghfro2386in6cdgv2qjtule1a4xtojlbs.jpg\" title=\"menning\" alt=\"Au\u00f0ur Hauksd\u00f3ttir\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90c291a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"90c291a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Au\u00f0ur Hauksd\u00f3ttir<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02288aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02288aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor Emerita of Danish at the University of Iceland. Between 2001 and 2018 she was Director of the Vigd\u00eds Finnbogad\u00f3ttir Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Iceland. Her main fields of expertise are the Danish language, in particular Danish as a foreign language past and present, comparative linguistics and the history of Danish culture and language in Iceland. In recent years she has written extensively on the influence of the Icelandic language and literature on Danish language policy and Danish national identity formation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5f7f73 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c5f7f73\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b68f139 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b68f139\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/2-Bragi-THorgrimur-Olafsson-ra045wojgmg5g23gdo40lum09ov6m5hnp5hgcekzi0.jpg\" title=\"2) Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson\" alt=\"2) Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20db0ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"20db0ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7acc31d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7acc31d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Head of the Manuscript Collection of the National and University Library of Iceland, which comprises over 15,000 post-medieval manuscripts. He obtained a doctoral degree in 2022 for his thesis on philologist and political leader J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson (1811-79) and the collecting of manuscripts in Iceland 1840-80.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55ade2a e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"55ade2a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baba403 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"baba403\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/3-Clarence-E.-Glad-scaled-ra045xmdnghfro2386in6cdgv2qjtule1a4xtojlbs.jpeg\" title=\"3) Clarence E. Glad\" alt=\"3) Clarence E. Glad\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc7daca elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bc7daca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Clarence E. Glad<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccb7459 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ccb7459\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in Religious Studies from Brown University (1992). He has taught at the University of Iceland, the University of Bifr\u00f6st, Reykjavik University and the University of Copenhagen. Currently a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy, Iceland, he is the author of books and articles on Philodemus and on the Pauline heritage in Early Christianity and on Icelandic cultural nationalism and images of the North in the long nineteenth century. He has also translated works by Clement of Alexandria from Greek into Icelandic. He has been a project leader and participant in numerous international research projects, <em><i>inter alia<\/i><\/em>\u00a0as co-director of Icelandic Philology and National Culture 1780-1918, which was financed by the Icelandic Research Fund.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cfb3d5 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7cfb3d5\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a346fd e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1a346fd\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b27f4 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c6b27f4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f781b05 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f781b05\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Gylfi-Gunnlaugsson.jpg\" title=\"Gylfi Gunnlaugsson\" alt=\"Gylfi Gunnlaugsson\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc5e1d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bc5e1d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Gylfi Gunnlaugsson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53b86c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"53b86c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy, Iceland. He has taught at the University of Kiel, Germany, and the University of Iceland. His areas of research include the remediation of Old Norse literature in literary works of later periods and the role of the Old Norse heritage in the formation of national and transnational identities in North-Western Europe. He has participated in several international research projects, most recently as co-director of Icelandic Philology and National Culture 1780-1918, a project financed by the Icelandic Research Fund. Among his publications is the edited volume <em>Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century <\/em>(ed. with Clarence E. Glad, 2022).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7ad918 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f7ad918\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af6c172 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"af6c172\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Paula-Henrikson-ra045xmdnghfro2386in6cdgv2qjtule1a4xtojlbs.jpg\" title=\"Paula Henrikson\" alt=\"Paula Henrikson\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e2797a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e2797a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Paula Henrikson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d4e5ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d4e5ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor of Literature in the Department of Literature and Rhetoric, Uppsala University. Her fields of expertise include romantic literature, textual criticism, classical reception and travel literature. Among Henrikson\u2019s publications are the books <em><i>Dramatikern Stagnelius <\/i><\/em>(2004), <em><i>Textkritisk utgivning<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(2007), <em><i>Detta tryckpapperstidevarv: Litter\u00e4r editionshistoria i Sve\u001frige under det l\u00e5nga 1800-talet <\/i><\/em>(2018), and the edited volumes<em><i>\u00a0Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien <\/i><\/em>(ed. with Christian Janss, 2013) and <em><i>Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(ed. with Christina Kullberg, 2021). She has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Royal Society of Humanities in Uppsala.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a08a1d3 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a08a1d3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44f9c9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"44f9c9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Gunilla-Hermansson.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-726\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Gunilla-Hermansson.jpg 300w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Gunilla-Hermansson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2707c98 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2707c98\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Gunilla Hermansson<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92c2a3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92c2a3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg. She studied Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen and received her PhD degree in 2003 for a thesis on <em>T\u00f6rnrosens bok <\/em>by C. J. L. Almqvist. Her research has a distinctly Nordic profile and has been devoted mostly to romantic, early avant-garde and modernist literature. A common denominator is a historical interest, including the theory and problems of literary historiography, as well as an effort to combine close readings with theoretical reflections on the relationships between form, ideology and aesthetics. Among her most recent books are <em><i>Swedish Women\u2019s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(2019), with Yvonne Leffler et al, and the upcoming monograph, <em><i>Song Lyrics and Literary History: The Afterlives of \u2018V\u00e5rvindar friska\u2019 <\/i><\/em>(Bloomsbury 2025).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fce0312 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fce0312\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abdacd7 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"abdacd7\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1f0256 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e1f0256\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cad5c70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cad5c70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jon-Gunnar-Jorgensen1.jpg\" title=\"Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen(1)\" alt=\"Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen(1)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-622e049 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"622e049\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a0bd3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a0bd3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse Philology at the University of Oslo. His scholarly works cover a broad range of subjects, mostly concerning Old Norse language and texts. Amongst other things, he has undertaken manuscript studies and written about saga literature, skaldic and Eddic poetry, historiography and reception history. He has also published scholarly editions of both medieval texts and more recent (nineteenth century) literature and edited a corpus edition of the Sagas of Icelanders in Norwegian. Currently he is finishing a study of the importance of poetry for the development of the sagas.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e5377b e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5e5377b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc57511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fc57511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Thomas-Mohnike1-ra045xm9zw8omeb6o1ct2yigttpa1orp5sc3l5bjeo.jpg\" title=\"Thomas Mohnike(1)\" alt=\"Thomas Mohnike(1)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff2fa8b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ff2fa8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Thomas Mohnike<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f8de44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1f8de44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg. He has researched extensively on imaginative geographies of the North in comparative philology 1780-1945 and the rewritings of Old Norse sagas after 1500. He was co-director of the FRIAS-USIAS funded project Building the North with Words.<br \/>Geographies of Scientific Knowledge in European Philologies 1850\u20131950, which resulted in several publications, for example <em>G\u00e9ographies du Germain. Les \u00e9tudes nordiques \u00e0 Strasbourg (1840-1945) <\/em>(2020). Besides studies on the reception of Old Norse myths, he is working on the influence of Protestantism on aesthetics in Northern Europe in several projects.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc9685f e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bc9685f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fff31d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1fff31d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Klaus-Johan-Myrvoll.jpg\" title=\"Klaus Johan Myrvoll\" alt=\"Klaus Johan Myrvoll\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b2d917 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1b2d917\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Klaus Johan Myrvoll<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f571a1e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f571a1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>is Professor of Nordic Linguistics at the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger. He received his PhD degree in Old Norse Philology from the University of Oslo in 2015 for a thesis on skaldic metre and the chronological development of skaldic verse. His main research focus is on skaldic poetry, particularly on the role of poetry in saga literature, and Nordic language history, both with regard to the ancient languages and the development of Modern Norwegian (<em>nynorsk<\/em>). He has also published on other topics, such as manuscript transmission, name studies, genealogy and runology.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25c1079 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"25c1079\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64c9e78 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"64c9e78\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80f9df8 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"80f9df8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9e0767 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d9e0767\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Katja-Schulz.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-750\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Katja-Schulz.jpg 300w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Katja-Schulz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61b9f87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61b9f87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Katja Schulz<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-510f23d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"510f23d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>completed her doctoral degree in Scandinavian Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 2002 with a thesis on <em>j\u00f6tnar <\/em>(giants) in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. She is co-author of the <em><i>Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1997-2019, 7 vol.) and worked for several years at the DFG funded research project Edda-Rezeption, based in Frankfurt. As a part of this project she edited <em>Eddische G\u00f6tter und Helden. Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption<\/em>\u00a0(2011) and co-edited <em><i>Gylfis T\u00e4uschung. Rezeptionsgeschichtliches Lexikon zur nordischen Mythologie und Heldensage<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(2019) and <em><i>&#8220;Sang an Aegir&#8221;. Nordische Mythen um 1900<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(2009). She was a visiting professor at the Institut f\u00fcr Skandinavistik, Frankfurt, 2016 and 2021-23. She is now affiliated with the Reykjavik Academy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc5eb80 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dc5eb80\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d41abd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6d41abd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"469\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kim-Simonsen.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1098\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kim-Simonsen.jpeg 469w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kim-Simonsen-220x300.jpeg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57f575c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"57f575c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Kim Simonsen<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d43acf9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d43acf9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKim Simonsen is a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy and an award-winning\nwriter. As a researcher he specializes in European cultural history, romantic\nnationalism, memory studies and nationalism studies, recently also in post-humanist\nand new-materialist theory. His work explores the formation of national identity\nthrough canonization, philology, and cultural networks. He has worked at the\nUniversity of Amsterdam, where he was a postdoctoral research fellow and in other\nroles 2014-2022. He has also served as an associate professor at the University of\nBergen. Notable publications include <i>Dreymar um opin vindeygu<\/i> (2003), <i>Literature,\nImagining and Memory in the Formation of a Nation \u2013 Travel Writing, Canonisation\nand the Formation of a National Self-Image in the Faroe Islands<\/i> (2012) and <i>Before\nthe Library \u2013 A Wave in European History<\/i> (2015). He has published extensively on\nromantic canon formation, the cultural networks of Carl Christian Rafn and the Royal\nSociety of Northern Antiquaries and the use of ballads and sagas in shaping early\nmodern Nordic identity.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ef49ba e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1ef49ba\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e66036 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7e66036\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-962f09e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"962f09e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/akademian_logo-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-168\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/akademian_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/akademian_logo.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e924dc0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e924dc0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/akademia.is\/rnp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rannis-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-169\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Au\u00f0ur Hauksd\u00f3ttir is Professor Emerita of Danish at the University of Iceland. Between 2001 and 2018 she was Director of the Vigd\u00eds Finnbogad\u00f3ttir Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Iceland. Her main fields of expertise are the Danish language, in particular Danish as a foreign language past and present, comparative linguistics and the history of Danish culture and language in Iceland. In recent years she has written extensively on the influence of the Icelandic language and literature on Danish language policy and Danish national identity formation. Bragi \u00deorgr\u00edmur \u00d3lafsson is Head of the Manuscript Collection of the National and University Library of Iceland, which comprises over 15,000 post-medieval manuscripts. He obtained a doctoral degree in 2022 for his thesis on philologist and political leader J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson (1811-79) and the collecting of manuscripts in Iceland 1840-80. Clarence E. Glad holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in Religious Studies from Brown University (1992). He has taught at the University of Iceland, the University of Bifr\u00f6st, Reykjavik University and the University of Copenhagen. Currently a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy, Iceland, he is the author of books and articles on Philodemus and on the Pauline heritage in Early Christianity and on Icelandic cultural nationalism and images of the North in the long nineteenth century. He has also translated works by Clement of Alexandria from Greek into Icelandic. He has been a project leader and participant in numerous international research projects, inter alia\u00a0as co-director of Icelandic Philology and National Culture 1780-1918, which was financed by the Icelandic Research Fund. Gylfi Gunnlaugsson is a researcher at the Reykjavik Academy, Iceland. He has taught at the University of Kiel, Germany, and the University of Iceland. His areas of research include the remediation of Old Norse literature in literary works of later periods and the role of the Old Norse heritage in the formation of national and transnational identities in North-Western Europe. He has participated in several international research projects, most recently as co-director of Icelandic Philology and National Culture 1780-1918, a project financed by the Icelandic Research Fund. Among his publications is the edited volume Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century (ed. with Clarence E. Glad, 2022). Paula Henrikson is Professor of Literature in the Department of Literature and Rhetoric, Uppsala University. Her fields of expertise include romantic literature, textual criticism, classical reception and travel literature. Among Henrikson\u2019s publications are the books Dramatikern Stagnelius (2004), Textkritisk utgivning\u00a0(2007), Detta tryckpapperstidevarv: Litter\u00e4r editionshistoria i Sve\u001frige under det l\u00e5nga 1800-talet (2018), and the edited volumes\u00a0Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien (ed. with Christian Janss, 2013) and Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing\u00a0(ed. with Christina Kullberg, 2021). She has been awarded prizes by the Swedish Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Royal Society of Humanities in Uppsala. Gunilla Hermansson is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg. She studied Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen and received her PhD degree in 2003 for a thesis on T\u00f6rnrosens bok by C. J. L. Almqvist. Her research has a distinctly Nordic profile and has been devoted mostly to romantic, early avant-garde and modernist literature. A common denominator is a historical interest, including the theory and problems of literary historiography, as well as an effort to combine close readings with theoretical reflections on the relationships between form, ideology and aesthetics. Among her most recent books are Swedish Women\u2019s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Nineteenth Century\u00a0(2019), with Yvonne Leffler et al, and the upcoming monograph, Song Lyrics and Literary History: The Afterlives of \u2018V\u00e5rvindar friska\u2019 (Bloomsbury 2025). Jon Gunnar J\u00f8rgensen is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse Philology at the University of Oslo. His scholarly works cover a broad range of subjects, mostly concerning Old Norse language and texts. Amongst other things, he has undertaken manuscript studies and written about saga literature, skaldic and Eddic poetry, historiography and reception history. He has also published scholarly editions of both medieval texts and more recent (nineteenth century) literature and edited a corpus edition of the Sagas of Icelanders in Norwegian. Currently he is finishing a study of the importance of poetry for the development of the sagas. Thomas Mohnike is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg. He has researched extensively on imaginative geographies of the North in comparative philology 1780-1945 and the rewritings of Old Norse sagas after 1500. He was co-director of the FRIAS-USIAS funded project Building the North with Words.Geographies of Scientific Knowledge in European Philologies 1850\u20131950, which resulted in several publications, for example G\u00e9ographies du Germain. Les \u00e9tudes nordiques \u00e0 Strasbourg (1840-1945) (2020). Besides studies on the reception of Old Norse myths, he is working on the influence of Protestantism on aesthetics in Northern Europe in several projects. Klaus Johan Myrvoll is Professor of Nordic Linguistics at the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger. He received his PhD degree in Old Norse Philology from the University of Oslo in 2015 for a thesis on skaldic metre and the chronological development of skaldic verse. His main research focus is on skaldic poetry, particularly on the role of poetry in saga literature, and Nordic language history, both with regard to the ancient languages and the development of Modern Norwegian (nynorsk). He has also published on other topics, such as manuscript transmission, name studies, genealogy and runology. Katja Schulz completed her doctoral degree in Scandinavian Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 2002 with a thesis on j\u00f6tnar (giants) in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. She is co-author of the Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda\u00a0(1997-2019, 7 vol.) and worked for several years at the DFG funded research project Edda-Rezeption, based in Frankfurt. As a part of this project she edited Eddische G\u00f6tter und Helden. Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption\u00a0(2011) and co-edited Gylfis T\u00e4uschung. Rezeptionsgeschichtliches Lexikon zur nordischen Mythologie und Heldensage\u00a0(2019) and &#8220;Sang an Aegir&#8221;. Nordische Mythen um 1900\u00a0(2009). 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