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  [### Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture

 ](/news/myth-magic-and-memory-early-scandinavian-narrative-culture) April 23, 2021 

 I was delighted and honored – and utterly surprised – to be presented on my recent 70 th birthday with a beautiful volume of essays on a wide range of topics treating spiritual culture in the pre-modern North, edited by Jürg Glauser and Pernille Hermann... 

 

 

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   [### Sixth Jarl Gallén Prize

 ](/news/sixth-jarl-gall%C3%A9n-prize) November 20, 2019 

 Sixth Jarl Gallén Prize 

 

 

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   [### Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies

 ](/news/handbook-pre-modern-nordic-memory-studies) January 11, 2019 

 I am very pleased to note that the Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (De Gruyter, <http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458546>) - finally, some might say - appeared at the end of 2018. From the back cover: In... 

 

 

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   [### Old Norse Mythology — Comparative Perspectives

 ](/news/old-norse-mythology-%E2%80%94-comparative-perspectives) December 13, 2017 

 The anthology Old Norse Mythology — Comparative Perspectives, ed. Pernille Hermann, Stephen Mitchell and Jens Peter Schjødt (CHS/Harvard University Press) is now available. 

 

 

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   [### Århus-Samsø Viking Studies Program 

 ](/news/%C3%A5rhus-sams%C3%B8-vikings-studies-program) May 20, 2016 

 Harvard's cooperative Viking Studies venture with Århus University and Moesgård Museum is featured on pp. 8-9 of In situ, available at -- [http://archaeology.harvard.edu/files/sca/files/in\_situ\_11.pdf?m=1463573…](http://archaeology.harvard.edu/files/sca/files/in_situ_11.pdf?m=1463573335)

 

 

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   [### Honorary doctorate from Aarhus University

 ](/news/honorary-doctorate-aarhus-university) September 11, 2015 

 A video produced by Aarhus University for the occasion: stephenmitchell_1_-_wi-fi_copy.mp4 From the Aarhus University webpage— "Professor Stephen A. Mitchell from Harvard University has been appointed honorary doctor at Aarhus University based on his... 

 

 

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   [### Minni and Muninn. Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture. Ed. Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir. 

 ](/news/minni-and-muninn-memory-medieval-nordic-culture-ed-pernille-hermann-stephen-mitchell) March 29, 2014 

 Now available through [http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod\_id=IS-9782503549101-1](http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503549101-1)

 

 

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   [### Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages now in paperback

 ](/news/witchcraft-and-magic-nordic-middle-ages-now-paperback) March 22, 2013 

 Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages is now available from the University of Pennsylvania Press as a paperback and as an ebook, in addition to the traditional hardbound format: Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4290-4 | $49.95s | £32.50 | Paper Mar... 

 

 

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   [### Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North

 ](/news/memory-and-remembering-past-awareness-medieval-north) March 22, 2013 

 The 2012 Radcliffe Seminar, “The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case,” inspired a series of theoretically-oriented essays which have now appeared as Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North. Special... 

 

 

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   [### The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case

 ](/announcements/ambiguities-memory-construction-medieval-texts-nordic-case) April 18, 2012 

 On April 13 and 14, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study sponsored an exploratory seminar on The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case, with participants representing such disciplines as history, literature, folklore... 

 

 

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   [### About Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)

 ](/announcements/witchcraft-and-magic-nordic-middle-ages-philadelphia-university-pennsylvania) June 11, 2013 

 For details, a sample section of the book, and more, please see the University of Pennsylvania Press website. REVIEWER COMMENTS IN BRIEF COMPLETE REVIEWS: American Historical Review ARV The Catholic Historical Review English Historical Review Folklore... 

 

 

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