John Lindow

I 1972 fik han en Ph.d. grad i germansk sprog og litteratur fra Harvard, og i 1981 blev han ansat i sin nuværende stilling på Berkeley. Lindows værker omfatter bl.a. en håndbog i Nordisk mytologi Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Rituals, and Beliefs. John Lindows hovedarbejdsområde er norrøn litteratur med fokus på mytologi og poesi, skandinavisk folklore og legender, og finno-ugrisk folklore. Hans metodiske fokus er fortolkning af tekst i social og historisk kontekst.

John Lindow
Personlig information
Født	1946
Uddannelse og virke
Uddannelses­sted	Harvard Universitet
Beskæftigelse	Manuskriptforfatter, forfatter
Arbejdsgiver	University of California, Berkeley
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Bogudgivelser:

(2014): Trolls: An Unnatural History. London: Reaction Books.

(2001): Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Ny udgave af Handbook of Norse Mythology. Santa Barbara, Denver and London: ABC-Clio.

(2000): Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. red. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara & John Lindow. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-Clio.

(1997): Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology. FF Communications, 262. Helsinki: Akademia Scientiarum Fennica.

(1998): Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Publishing.

(1985) Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide. red. John Lindow & Carol Clover. Cornell Univ. Press, -- Genudgivet fra University of Toronto Press, 2005.

(1978): Swedish Legends and Folktales, UC Press.

(1976): Comitatus Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary, UC Press.

Seneste artikler:

• "Akkerisfrakki: Traditions Concerning Óláfr Tryggvason and Hallfreddr Óttarsson vandraskáld and the Problem of the Conversion." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2007): 64-80.

• "Poets and Poetry in Myth and Life: The Case of Bragi." In Old Norse Religion In Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes And Interactions: An International Conference in Lund, Sweden June 3-7, 2004. Vägar till Midagård, 8. Ed. Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharine Raudvere (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006), 21-25.

• "Cultures in Contact." Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. The Viking Collection, Vol. 14. (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003), 89-109.

• "Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga Saga." Myth: A New Symposium, ed. Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Blomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2002), 107-123.

• "The Tears of the Gods: A Note on the Death of Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology." Journal of Englush and Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 155-169.

• "Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints." Scandinavian Studies 73 (2001): 437-456