Alaric’s publications

My publications are listed here, by category, in reverse chronological order. (If you're looking for my Ph.D., click here.) Click on the article title for an abstract; on the journal title for the journal's homepage. I make all my scholarship freely available online, and since getting a permanent job have only published in fora that facilitate this. If you need to know, my Orcid is 0000-0002-1479-4441.

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Monographs

• Útrásarvíkingar! The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008–2014) (Earth, Milky Way: punctum, 2020). ISBN-13: 978-1-950192-69-4 (print); ISBN-13: 978-1-950192-70-0 (ePDF); DOI: 10.21983/P3.0272.1.00
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• Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity, Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007; pbk repr. 2009).
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Edited books

• Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö, ed. by Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox, The Northern World, 48 (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
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Articles in journals

• Philip Lavender, Alaric Hall, Gary Harrop, Védis Ragnheiðardóttir, Lucy Arnold, Victoria Cooper, Alison Hardie, Imogen Hobson, Frank Jackman, Valerie Legg, Katarzyna Mączyńska, Katherine Miller, Antonia Murath, Judith Nordby, Christie Oliver-Hobley, Helen Price, Nathan Ramsden, T. P. Rowbotham, Rose Sawyer, Catalin Taranu, 'Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns: A Translation', Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves au Canada, 27 (2020), 50-104.
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• (with Steven D. P. Richardson and Haukur Þorgeirsson), 'Sigrgarðs saga frækna: A Normalised Text, Translation, and Introduction', Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves au Canada, 21 (2013), 80-155.
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• 'Jón the Fleming: Low German in Thirteenth-Century Norway and Fourteenth-Century Iceland', Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 18 (2013), 1-33.
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• 'Madness, Medication--and Self-Induced Hallucination? Elleborus (and Woody Nightshade) in Anglo-Saxon England, 700-900', Leeds Studies in English, new series, 44 (2013), 43-69.
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• 'Elleborus in Anglo-Saxon England, 900–1100: Tunsingwyrt and Wodewistle', Leeds Studies in English, new series, 44 (2013), 70-93.
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• (lead author, with Katelin Parsons), 'Making Stemmas with Small Samples, and Digital Approaches to Publishing them: Testing the Stemma of Konráðs saga keisarasonar', Digital Medievalist, 9 (2013).
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• 'The Contemporary Evidence for Early Medieval Witchcraft-Beliefs', RMN Newsletter, 3 (December 2011), 6-11.
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• (lead author, with Haukur Þorgeirsson, Patrick Beverley, Kirsty Brooks, Ffion Twomlow, David Bishop, Lauren Brogden, Oliver Clarkson, Anna Denholm, Kathryn Denvir, Benjamin Fearn, Laura Friis, Victoria Granata Thorne, Amaris Gutierrez-Ray, Laura Holdsworth, Simon Johnson, Anouska Luboff, Elizabeth Matter, Brianna Metcalf, Louise O’Mahony, David Varley, Harriet Veale), 'Sigurðar saga fóts (The Saga of Sigurðr Foot): A Translation', Mirator, 11 (2010), 56-91.
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• ' "Þur sarriþu þursa trutin": Monster-Fighting and Medicine in Early Medieval Scandinavia', Asclepio: revista de historia de la medicina y de la ciencia, 61.1 (2009), 195-218.
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• 'The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch', Scottish Language, 26 (2007), 16-22.
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• 'The Evidence for maran, the Anglo-Saxon "Nightmares" ', Neophilologus, 91 (2007), 299-317 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-005-4256-8).
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• 'Folk-healing, Fairies and Witchcraft: The Trial of Stein Maltman, Stirling 1628', Studia Celtica Fennica, 3 (2006), 10-25.
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• 'Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English and Elvish', Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 124.2 (2006), 225-43 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2006.225).
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• 'Hygelac's Only Daughter: A Present, a Potentate and a Peaceweaver in Beowulf', Studia Neophilologica, 78.1 (2006), 81-87 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393270600774719).
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• 'Are there any Elves in Anglo-Saxon Place-Names?', Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 29 (2006), 61-80.
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• 'Calling the Shots: The Old English Remedy Gif hors ofscoten sie and Anglo-Saxon "Elf-Shot" ', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 106.2 (2005), 195-209.
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• 'Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials', Folklore, 116 (2005), 19-36 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587052000337699).
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• 'Changing Style and Changing Meaning: Icelandic Historiography and the Medieval Redactions of Heiðreks saga', Scandinavian Studies, 77 (2005), 1-30.
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• 'The Images and Structure of The Wife's Lament', Leeds Studies in English, 33 (2002), 1-29.
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• 'Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: Two Marginal Developments of < eo > in Old and Middle English', Quaestio: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2 (2001), 60-90.
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• 'Gwŷr y Gogledd? Some Icelandic Analogues to Branwen Ferch Lŷr', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 42 (Winter 2001), 27-50.
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Articles in books

• (with Ludger Zeevaert), 'Njáls saga Stemmas, Old and New', in New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of 'Njáls saga': The 'Historia mutila' of 'Njála', ed. by Emily Lethbridge and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2018), pp. 179-203.
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• 'Fornaldarsögur and Financial Crisis: Bjarni Bjarnason’s Mannorð', in The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and Reception of the 'Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda', ed. by Matthew Driscoll, Silvia Hufnagel, Philip Lavender and Beeke Stegmann, The Viking Collection, 24 (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018), pp. 351-75.
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• (with Samuli Kaislaniemi), ' "You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome', in Ex Philologia Lux: Essays in Honour of Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, ed. by Jukka Tyrkkö, Olga Timofeeva and Maria Salenius, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, 90 (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2013), pp. 261-80.
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• 'The Instability of Place-names in Anglo-Saxon England and Early Medieval Wales, and the Loss of Roman Toponymy', in Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Richard Jones and Sarah Semple (Donington: Tyas, 2012), pp. 101-29.
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• 'A gente Anglorum appellatur: The Evidence of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum for the Replacement of Roman Names by English Ones During the Early Anglo-Saxon Period', in Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in Honour of R. W. McConchie, ed. Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily, Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 14 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2011), pp. 219-31.
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• 'Interlinguistic Communication in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum', in Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö, ed. by Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox, The Northern World, 48 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 37-80.
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• 'On the Etymology of Adel', in Wawnarstræti (alla leið til Íslands) lagt Andrew Wawn 65 ára 27. október 2009, ed. by Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Margrét Eggertsdóttir and Þórunn Sigurðardóttir (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningjasjóður Mette Magnussen, 2009), pp. 39-42.
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• 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies', in Methods and the Medievalist: Current Approaches in Medieval Studies, ed. by Marko Lamberg, Jesse Keskiaho, Elina Räsänen and Olga Timofeeva with Leila Virtanen (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 270-90.
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• 'Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac', in Images of Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson, ed. by Debra Higgs Strickland, Visualising the Middle Ages, 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 207-35.
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• 'Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture', in Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change: Studies in Semantics and Grammar from Old to Present-Day English, ed. by Matti Rissanen, Marianna Hintikka, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Rod McConchie, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, 72 (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2007), pp. 139-70.
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• 'Turning your Coursework into Articles', in Writing for Scholarly Journals: Publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. by Daniel Soule, Lucy Whiteley and Shona McIntosh (Glasgow: eSharp, 2007), pp. 10-23.
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Shorter research publications

• Wikipedia and Wikimedia.
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• 'How did the world come into being?', Gamanleikir Terentíusar: Settir upp fyrir Terry Gunnell sextugan 7. júlí 2015, ed. by Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir and Andrew Wawn (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2015), pp. 11-12.
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• 'Translating the Medieval Icelandic Romance-Sagas', Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter, 8 (May 2014), 65-67.
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• 'Elves', in The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. by Jeffrey A. Weinstock (forthcoming).
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• Interactive place-name distribution map for Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007).
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• Beowulf by All, ed. by Elaine Treharne and Jean Abbott (Stanford Text Technologies, 2016-), lines 2806-20.
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• IMC Virtual Disco, ed. by Alaric Hall, Alex Bamji, Cathy Hume, and Florence Scott (Leeds: South Leeds Radio, 2020).
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Popular academic publications

• 'How to Change (Medieval) History', Public Medievalist (7 February 2019).
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• 'Hoe Keltisch zijn elfen eigenlijk?' ['How Celtic are the Fairies?'], trans. by Dennis Groenewegen, Kelten, 37 (February 2008), 2-5.
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• 'Mitä on pyhä?' ('What's sacred?'), in the pamphlet Kulttuurien välinen kunnioitus, pyhä ja ilmaisun vapaus (Intercultural understanding, the sacred, and freedom of speech) (Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2006).
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• Column on English language for Anglorama, 2005-6: 'What is this Bollocks?', 32 (2005), 13; 'Fee Factories', 32 (2005), 14-15; 'How to Spell Fish', 33 (2006), 30; 'Sun, Sea and Semantics', 34 (2006), 30-31; 'Under the Weather', 35 (2006), 30.


• 'Anglo-Saxons and Elves: Language, Society and Superstition', Glossae (2004 issue 2), pp. 4-8.
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Book reviews

• Along the Oral-Written Continuum: Types of Texts, Relations, and their Implications, ed by Slavica Ranković, Leidulf Melve and Else Mundal, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 20 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), Saga-Book, 37 (2013), pp. 77-80.
• Galdramenn: Galdrar og samfélag á miðöldum, ed. by Torfi H. Tulinius (Reykjavík: Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2008), Saga-Book, 34 (2010), pp. 97-99.
• Lärdomber oc skämptan: Medieval Swedish Literature Reconsidered, ed. by Massimiliano Bampi and Fulvio Ferrari, Samlingar utgivna av Svenska fornskriftsällskapet, serie 3: Smärre texter och undersökningar, 5 (Uppsala: Svenska fornskriftsällskapet, 2008), Leeds Studies in English, n. s. 40 (2009), pp. 153-55.
• Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey, ed. by Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter, Making the Middle Ages, 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), Northern Scotland, 1 (2010), pp. 92-94.
• Jan Ragnar Hagland, Literacy i norsk seinmellomalder (Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2005), Speculum, 84 (2009), pp. 441-43.
• Martin K. Foys, Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007), forthcoming for the Bulletin of International Medieval Research.
• Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. by Stephen O. Glosecki, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 320/Arizona Stdies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 21 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), Early Medieval Europe, 17 (2009), 349-50 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2009.00281_4.x).
• Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross, ed. by Judy Quinn, Tarrin Wills and Kate Heslop, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), Leeds Studies in English, 39 (2008), 131-35.
• Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Norse-Derived Vocabulary in Late Old English Texts: Wulfstan's Works, a Case Study, North-Western European Language Evolution, Supplement, 22 (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007), Saga-Book of the Viking Society, 32 (2008), 88-89.
• Thomas A. Bredehoft, Early English Metre (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.
• Calvin B. Kendall, The Metrical Grammar of 'Beowulf', Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.
• Charles D. Wright, The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.
• Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 101 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), for Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 106 (2005), 503-4.
• John Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), for eSharp.
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• The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe, ed. by Thomas R. Liszka and Lorna E. M. Walker (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2001), for Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 43 (Summer 2002), 101-2.

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Juvenilia

• Gesta Asnacorum, ed. by Alaric et al. (Christmas-Easter 1999).
• 'The Battle of Gnitsah', Ragnarok: The Journal of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargaming, 13 (1994), repr. in The Second Ragnarok Compendium.
• 'Dark Age Science Fiction', Ragnarok: The Journal of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargaming, 14 (1994).