The Viking Site | Jesse Byock | UCLA

The Viking Site
Jesse L. Byock
Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies, Scandinavian Section
Professor, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
University of California Los Angeles

Books (click here for a PDF tear sheet of Professor Byock's titles)

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Grettir's Saga
L'Islande des Vikings
Sagas and the Myths of the Northmen
The Prose Edda
Viking Age Iceland
The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin)
The Saga of the Volsungs (University of California)
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Feud in the Icelandic Saga (University of California)
Island I Sagatiden
Feud in the Icelandic Saga (Japanese edition)
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power (Japanese edition)

Articles

Egil's Bones
The Age of the Sturlungs (1986)
Choices of Honor: Telling Saga Feud, Tháttr, and the Fundamental Oral Progression (1995)
Cultural Continuity, the Church, and the Concept of Independent Ages in Medieval Iceland (1985)
Dispute resolution in the Sagas
Governmental Order in Early Medieval Iceland (1986)
Hauskúpan og beinin í Egils sögu (1994)
History and the sagas: the effect of nationalism (1992)
Les Os d'Egil, Héros Viking (1995)
Modern Nationalism and the Medieval Sagas (1994)
Narrating Saga Feud: Deconstructing The Fundamental Oral Progression (1994)
Saga Form, Oral Prehistory, and the Icelandic Social Context (1984-85)
Sigurðr Fáfnisbani: An Eddic Hero Carved on Norwegian Stave Churches (1990)
Skull and Bones in Egils saga: A Viking, A Grave, and Paget's Disease (1993)
Social Memory and the Sagas: The Case of Egils Saga (2004)
The Dark Figure as Survivor in an Icelandic Saga (1986)
The Fornaldarsögur: Stephen Mitchell’s Contribution (1995)
The Icelandic Althing: Dawn of Parliamentary Democracy (2002)
The Sagas and the Twenty First Century (2001)
Valdatafl og vinfengi (1988)

Archaeology

Mosfell Archaeological Project
Fornleifar í Mosfelldal (click "Áfram")

Videos

Mosfell archaeological dig video (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Reviews and Media Reports

Press reviews of Viking Age Iceland (French edition)
Viking Heritage Magazine
Viva Vox
Icelandic TV News Report on Viking Longhouse Excavation
Egil le Viking (1995)

Affiliations

UCLA Scandinavian Section
BOX 951539, 212 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1539

www.viking.ucla.edu
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