Dr Elizabeth Ashman Rowe is Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, where she has been since 2008. With a PhD from Cornell University, she taught medieval history, medieval literature, and medieval palaeography at Stanford University, the University of California (Berkeley), and the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) before coming to the UK. She is the author of The Development of Flateyjarbók: Iceland and the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389 (2005) and Vikings in the West: The Legend of Ragnarr Loðbrók and His Sons (2012), in addition to numerous articles and encyclopedia entries. Her current project is the first English translation of the medieval annals of Iceland, and in addition to her post at Cambridge, she leads the medieval section of the International Manuscript Summer School (held alternately in Reykjavik and Copenhagen). She is a fellow of Clare Hall (Cambridge) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London).

Recommended reading relevant to the trip:

General/non-specialist:

• P. Sveaas Andersen, Vikings of the west: the expansion of Norway in the early middle ages (1971)
• K. Helle, et al., Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times, trans. M. Drake (1995)
• P. Sawyer, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (1997)
• J. Haywood, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (1995)
• J. Graham-Campbell, ed., Cultural Atlas of the Viking World (1994)
• S. M. Margeson, Eyewitness Books: Eyewitness Viking (2010)
• J. Jesch, Women in the Viking Age (1991)
• R.I. Page, Chronicles of the Vikings: records, memorials, myths (1995)
• The saga of Harald Fairhair = Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, vol. 1, trans. A. Finlay and A. Faulkes (2012)

Specialist/academic:

• T.M. Andersson, ‘The Viking policy of Ethelred the unready’, Scandinavian Studies 59 (1987), 284-95
• S. Bagge, From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom: State Formation in Norway, c. 900-1350 (2010)
• J. Bately and A. Englert, eds., Ohthere’s Voyages: A late 9th-century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context (2007)
• H. Clarke et al. eds, Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age (1998) [contains several good articles about Viking Age Norway]
• A. Christophersen, ‘Power and impotence: political background of urbanisation in Trøndelag 900-11000 AD’, Archaeologia Polona 32 (1994), 95-108
• N. Price, The Viking way: religion and war in late Iron Age Scandinavia (2002)