Most of the books and articles mentioned in this discussion, courtesy my assistant Stella: Books: The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North:(Open access in its entirety at www.academia.edu/32484922/The_Troll_Inside_You_Paranormal_Activity_in_the_Medieval_North_Punctum_Books_2017_, print copies available at punctumbooks.com/titles/the-troll-inside-you-paranormal-activity-in-the-medieval-north/ Nine Saga Studies: The Critical Interpretation of the Icelandic Sagas: www.academia.edu/5458179/Nine_Saga_Studies_The_Critical_Interpretation_of_the_Icelandic_Sagas_Reykjav%C3%ADk_2013 The Legendary Sagas: Origins and Development (ed. Annette Lassen, Agneta Ney, and Ármann Jakobsson): www.academia.edu/2111832/The_Legendary_Sagas_Origins_and_Development_2012_ The Saga of Bishop Thorlak (Þorláks saga byskups), tr. Ármann Jakobsson and David Clark: www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Text%20Series/Thorlaks%20saga.pdf Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150-1400 (ed. Ármann Jakobsson and Miriam Mayburd): www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501513862/html?lang=en The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (ed. Ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson): www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Research-Companion-to-the-Medieval-Icelandic-Sagas/Jakobsson-Jakobsson/p/book/9780367133658 Open access chapter by Ármann from the previous title, "Structure": www.academia.edu/32920624/_Structure_The_Routledge_Research_Companion_to_the_Medieval_Icelandic_Sagas_ed_%C3%81rmann_Jakobsson_and_Sverrir_Jakobsson_London_NY_2017_127_33 List of Ármann's books (including novels/fiction): hi.academia.edu/%C3%81rmannJakobsson/Books Articles and Papers: “The Earliest Legendary Saga Manuscripts" www.academia.edu/5526624/_The_earliest_legendary_saga_manuscripts_The_Legendary_Sagas_Origins_and_Development_Eds_Annette_Lassen_Agneta_Ney_%C3%81rmann_Jakobsson_Reykjav%C3%ADk_2012_21_32 The Matter of the North. The Rise of Literary Fiction in Thirteenth Century Iceland, Torfi H. Tulinius: www.academia.edu/4522317/The_Matter_of_the_North_The_Rise_of_Literary_Fiction_in_Thirteenth_Century_Iceland Research Guides from ASNC Viking Age and JSTOR: www.asncvikingage.com/copy-of-study-guide-sample-epq-topi guides.jstor.org/researchbasics “Afterword: Whatever Happened to the Sagas?”: www.academia.edu/41023803/_Afterword_Whatever_Happened_to_the_Sagas_Scandinavian_Canadian_Studies_26_2019_304_11 “Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator” www.academia.edu/1348114/_Talk_to_the_Dragon_Tolkien_as_Translator_Tolkien_Studies_6_2009_27_39 “King Arthur and the Kennedy Assassination: The Allure and Absence of Truth in the Icelandic Sagas” www.academia.edu/15020791/_King_Arthur_and_the_Kennedy_Assassination_The_Allure_and_Absence_of_Truth_in_the_Icelandic_Sagas_Scandinavian_Canadian_Studies_22_2015_12_25 “Beast and Man: Realism and the Occult in Egils saga" www.academia.edu/1348117/_Beast_and_Man_Realism_and_the_Occult_in_Egils_saga_Scandinavian_Studies_83_2011_29_44 Njáls saga on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0R73r85isCTdb4KujGIPNt “The Amplified Saga: Structural Disunity in Morkinskinna” www.academia.edu/5608796/_The_Amplified_Saga_Structural_Disunity_in_Morkinskinna_Medium_Aevum_70_2001_29_46 “Masculinity and Politics in Njáls saga" www.academia.edu/1348106/_Masculinity_and_Politics_in_Nj%C3%A1ls_saga_Viator_38_2007_191_215 “The ‘Decline of Realism’ and inefficacious Old Norse literary genres and sub-genres," Ármann Jakobsson and Yoav Tirosh: www.academia.edu/44059206/_The_Decline_of_Realism_and_inefficacious_Old_Norse_literary_genres_and_sub_genres_Scandia_3_2020_102_38 “Vampires and Watchmen: Categorizing the Mediaeval Icelandic Undead" www.academia.edu/1348122/_Vampires_and_Watchmen_Categorizing_the_Mediaeval_Icelandic_Undead_Journal_of_English_and_Germanic_Philology_110_2011_281_300 “The Fearless Vampire Killers: A Note about the Icelandic Draugr and Demonic Contamination in Grettis Saga" www.academia.edu/1348123/_The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers_A_Note_about_the_Icelandic_Draugr_and_Demonic_Contamination_in_Grettis_Saga_Folklore_120_2009_307_16 “The Specter of Old Age: Nasty Old Men in the Sagas of Icelanders" www.academia.edu/1348102/_The_Specter_of_Old_Age_Nasty_Old_Men_in_the_Sagas_of_Icelanders_Journal_of_English_and_Germanic_Philology_104_2005_297_325 “Beware of the Elf!: A note on the Evolving Meaning of Álfar" www.academia.edu/14409192/_Beware_of_the_Elf_A_note_on_the_Evolving_Meaning_of_%C3%81lfar_Folklore_126_2015_215_23 "How Elvish Were the Álfar?", Terry Gunnell www.academia.edu/16232734/How_Elvish_Were_the_%C3%81lfar_2_ "The Hills Have Eyes: Post-Mortem Mountain Dwelling and the (Super)natural Landscapes in the Íslendingasögur," Miriam Mayburd www.academia.edu/12623020/The_Hills_Have_Eyes_Post_Mortem_Mountain_Dwelling_and_the_Super_natural_Landscapes_in_the_%C3%8Dslendingas%C3%B6gur "How Icelandic Legends Reflect the Prohibition on Dancing," Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir www.academia.edu/4666331/How_Icelandic_Legends_Reflect_the_Prohibition_on_Dancing "Pantheon? What Pantheon?", Terry Gunnell www.academia.edu/20384683/Pantheon_What_Pantheon

This is what I mean when I say "Icelandic academic" when describing a personality/character. Very home'y coffeetable talk. Loved the rants

Very informative as usual. Keep up the great work.

amazing video, it was very informative! thank you!

idk why I'm just now watching this... but it's great. keep it up dr crawford!

Thank you so much for this wide-ranging, in-depth discussion. I hesitated watching because 1:42 seemed loong, but it was very engaging and informative. Two great minds offering fresh perspectives on our understanding of the past.

Thanks for posting 🙏

Great talk

Speaking on genre, I owned a bookstore and separating books into genres was based on customers desired style in the racks and on what was popular in the displays. There was no motivation to separate into categories just for the sake of it. However, oral story telling works in such a different way. It begs the question, were sagas preformed like plays or were they told in an off the cuff manner at gatherings.

Our man Ármann

I wasn't even going to watch this, but you guys got me hooked.

What paranormal beliefs are common varies wildly from country to country in our contemporary interconnected world, what's laughable somewhere is everyday somewhere else. Such beliefs have changed enough in my lifetime, since the sagas were written they must have done so immeasurably.

Pretty sure Amazon requires an author for a book, some write anonymous of course, but I think Leif Eriksson might be put just so that it collects the sagas if someone clicks on the author name rather than thousands of books on various subjects turning up.

How could the separate group of proto-icelanders have performed this exodus without it being commented on, anywhere? One should think this ought to have been a point of interest even back then.

28:32 the paranormal is always changing

Which saga/poem/prose at 24:37-24:40 are you referring to as the audio is roboting slightly?

In modern Iceland there is really little distinction between álfar and huldufólk. Wich would really confirm with Ármanns point of view.

Nú: "Now then" :)

Dr. Crawford’s Star Wars stuff does deserve more traction in the U.S. :)

Aliens after discovering Twitter. No on second thought let's not go to earth, it is a silly place.

Is Unforgiven a western?

Great talk! Can you please help? The Rekjavik Grapevine has a contest I’m not entering but am curious. Their question is “what does log mean” that’s an ‘o’ with 2 dots above it. Not a student of Norse, I’m just a curious 40yo. I subscribed to you after I watched your first discussion with Simon Roper. I don’t watch every video you make, unfortunately, but I really enjoy your content and love to see my old stomping grounds. Next, I must have your books!

Norse Dad's beard game on point as always

if iceland was an archaic archive makes me wonder if the greenland colonies were even more so (until they ceased to exist).