Visiting Scholar in Viking Studies

This year's visiting scholar will be Professor John McKinnell from Durham
University, England, which for two years running has been acclaimed as
having the top-ranking Department of English in the England. Professor
McKinnell is a specialist in Old Norse Language and Literature, with
emphasis on Mythology. His latest book--Meeting the Other in Old Norse Myth
and Legend--has been well-received by such journals as Speculum.

Research Groups

• Medieval Studies

Research Interests

• Durham Medieval Drama Group
• Durham medieval texts
• Medieval acting style
• Old and Middle English poetry
• Old Norse literature (esp. mythological poetry)
• Records of early English drama

Publications

• McKinnell JS 2000. The Medieval Pageant Wagons at York: their Orientation and Height. Early Theatre 3 pp. 79-104
• McKinnell JS 2000. Myth as Therapy: the Usefulness of �rymskvida. Medium �vum 69:1 pp. 1-20
• McKinnell JS 1998. The Sequence of the Sacrament at Durham (Papers in North Eastern History 8). University of Teesside pp. 55
• McKinnell JS & ME Ruggerini 1994. Both One and Many: Essays on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism. Rome: Il Calamo pp. 212

Articles: magazine

• McKinnell, John. 2007. 'Wisdom from the Dead: the Ljóðatal section of Hávamál'. Medium Ævum 76: 85-115.
• John McKinnell 2005. Hávamál B: A Poem of Sexual Intrigue. Saga-Book 29(2005): 83-114.
• John McKinnell 2001. ‘On Heiðr’. Saga-Book 25(4): 394-417.
• John McKinnell 2000. The Medieval Pageant Waggons at York: their Orientation and Height. Early Drama 3: 79-104.

Books: authored

• McKinnell, J. 2005. Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer.
• McKinnell, J., Simek, Rudolf. & Düwel, Klaus. 2004. Runes, Magic and Religion. A Sourcebook. Vienna: Fassbaender.

Books: edited

• McKinnell, John., Ashurst, David. & Kick, Donata. 2006. The Fantastic in Old Norse / Icelandic Literature. Sagas and the British Isles. Preprint Papers of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham and York, 6th-12th August, 2006. Durham: University of Durham, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Essays in edited volumes

• McKinnell, J. 2003. 'Encounters with Völur.'. In Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society. Ross, Margaret Clunies. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. The Viking Collection; 14: 110-131.
• McKinnell, J 2002. ‘Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Hyndluljóð’. In Mythological Women. Studies in Memory of Lotte Motz. Rudolf Simek & Wilhelm Heizmann Wien: Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia 7: 265-290.
• John McKinnell 2001. Ögmundar þáttr: Versions, Structure and Ideology. In Sagnaheimur. Studies in Honour of Hermann Pálsson. Ásdís Egilsdóttir, & Rudolf Simek Vienna: Fassbaender. 6: 159-174.
• John McKinnell 2001. Eddic Poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian Northern England. In Vikings and the Danelaw. Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress. James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch, & David Parsons Oxford: Oxbow. 327-344.

Journal papers: academic

• McKinnell, J. 2001. 'Significant Gestures: Two Medieval Illustrations of Classical Theatre.'. Leeds Studies in English 32: 289-320.

Other media: research equivalent

• John McKinnell (production director), & David Williams (video director) 2004. Hick Scorner.
• Henry Medwall 2001. Nature (ca. 1495).