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Project Partners
Anna Þorbjörg Þorgrímsdóttir
Doctoral student.
Simon Halink
is a cultural historian affiliated with the Frisian Academy (Fryske Akademy) in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leiden, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland. He received his PhD from the University of Groningen, where he studied the cultivation of Norse mythology in Icelandic national culture. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the role of landscape in identity formation and on the functions of philology, historiography and mythology in national discourses. Furthermore, he is the editor of the essay collection Northern Myths, Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Myths since 1800 (2019) and author of De Viking vanbinnen. Over IJslanders en hun verhalenwereld (2023).
Advisory Board
Alderik H. Blom
Alderik H. Blom, Professor of Celtic at the University of Marburg, Germany. Blom also has expertise in the fields of romantic nationalism and history of 19th century Germanic philology.
Matthew James Driscoll
Professor Matthew James Driscoll, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen. Driscoll is a specialist in the editing of manuscripts and the history of philology.
Rasmus Glenthøj
Associate Professor Rasmus Glenthøj, University of Southern Denmark. Historian, specialising in 19th century Scandinavian and European history with particular expertise in political Scandinavianism.
Guðmundur Hálfdánarson
Professor Guðmundur Hálfdánarson, University of Iceland. Historian, generally regarded as the leading authority on Icelandic nationalism.
Robert W. Rix
Associate Professor Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen. Rix has done extensive research on the reception of the North in Anglophone literature. He is also an expert on romanticism.
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson
Professor Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, University of Iceland. His main fields of expertise are modern Icelandic literature, including romanticism, the reception of medieval literature, ecocriticism and nationalism.
Alderik H. Blom, Professor of Celtic at the University of Marburg, Germany. Blom also has expertise in the fields of romantic nationalism and the history of 19th century Germanic philology.
Professor Matthew James Driscoll, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen. Driscoll is a specialist in the editing of manuscripts and the history of philology.
Professor Rasmus Glenthøj, University of Southern Denmark. Historian, specialising in 19th century Scandinavian and European history with particular expertise in political Scandinavianism.
Professor Guðmundur Hálfdánarson, University of Iceland. Historian, generally regarded as the leading authority on Icelandic nationalism.
Professor Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen. Rix has done extensive research on the reception of the North in Anglophone literature. He is also an expert on romanticism.
Professor Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, University of Iceland. His main fields of expertise are modern Icelandic literature, including romanticism, the reception of medieval literature, ecocriticism and nationalism.
