CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Scandinavian Studies
Department of Scandinavian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1306 Van Hise Hall
Madison, WI 53706 USA
| Office Telephone: | (608) 262-8087 |
| Office Fax: | (608) 262-9417 |
| Active email: | kwolf@scandinavian.wisc.edu |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Paleography and philology, hagiography
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Daily Life of the Viking Age Scandinavians (Westport: Greenwood Press, forthcoming)
Heilagra meyja sogur (Reykjavik:Bokmenntafraedistofnun Haskola Islands, 2003)
Saga heilagrar Onnu (Reykjavik: Stofnun Arna Magnussonar, 2001)
The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2000)
An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Disserations on Old Norse-Icelandic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
The Icelandic Legend of Saint Dorothy (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieaeval Studies, 1997)
Gydinga saga (Reykjavik: Stofnun Arna Magnussonar, 1995).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Very much so; I teach Old Norse paleography.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Jenny Aune, "Silence in the Sagas of Icelanders."
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
I am interested in possibly participating/conducting via videoconference a seminar or course.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Old Norse I
Old Norse II
The Vikings
Survey of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
Paleography and Philology
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