Publications
The End of the Commonwealth: Sturlungöld in Early Scholarship. Scandinavian Studies 96, no. 1 (2024): 1–23.
Reykjaholt Revisited: Representing Snorri in Sturla Þórðarson’s Íslendinga Saga. By Úlfar Bragason. Translated by Andrew Wawn. Rit, 106. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, 2021. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 123, no. 1 (2024): 114–16. [Review.]
Slímusetur in Early Icelandic Law and its European Context. Gripla 34 (2023): 113–37.
Oren Falk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland. This Spattered Isle. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. Saga 61, no. 2: 245–48.
Kristinréttur Árna biskups og röksemdir lagasetningar. Tímarit lögfræðinga 73, no. 4 (2023): 725–51.
Co-author with Valgerður Sólnes. Að fortíð skal hyggja, ef frumlegt skal byggja ― lögfræði og réttarsaga. Tímarit lögfræðinga 73, no. 4 (2023): 667–76.
Sturlunga saga eða Íslendinga sagan mikla. Guðrún Ása Grímsdóttir gaf út. Íslenzk fornrit XX‒XXII. Þrjú bindi. Hið íslenzka fornritafélag. Reykjavík 2021. Saga 60, no. 2 (2022): 221–27. [Review.]
Íslenskt fagtímarit í sagnfræði. Saga 60, no. 2 (2022): 29–35.
Baldur Þórhallsson (ásamt Sverri Steinssyni, Þorsteini Kristinssyni og Tómasi Joensen), Iceland’s Shelter-Seeking Behavior from Settlement to Republic. Islandica 63. Cornell University Library. Íþaka 2021. Saga 60, no. 1 (2022): 216–18. [Review.]
David Crouch. The Chivalric Turn: Conduct and Hegemony in Europe before 1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Saga 60, no. 1 (2022): 19‒21. [Review of sorts, under the heading Góð saga.]
Bishop Jón Halldórsson and Clerical Culture in 14th Century Iceland. In Gunnar Harðarson og Karl G. Johansson, eds., Dominican Resonances in Medieval Iceland: The Legacy of Bishop Jón Halldórsson of Skálholt, 41‒55. Brill: Leiden, 2021.
Forming Bonds with Followers in Medieval Iceland: The Cases of Thordr kakali and Thorgils skarði. In Kim Esmark, Lars Hermanson, and Hans Jacob Orning, eds. Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, vol. 2, Social Networks. Routledge: London, 2020.
Reykholt as a Centre of Power: 1. Reykholt and Centres of Power in Context. In Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir and Helgi Þorláksson, eds. Snorri Sturluson and Reykholt: The Narrator, His Life, Works and Environment at Reykholt in Borgarfjörður, Western Iceland. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2018. [Sub-chapters 2 and 3 by Helgi Þorláksson and Sverrir Jakobsson.]
Þaulsetnir gestir: Brot úr réttarsögu. In Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, and Viðar Pálsson, eds. Hallamál: Rétt Haraldi Bernharðssyni fimmtugum 12. apríl 2018, 89‒90. Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2018.
Co-ed. with Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir. Hallamál: Rétt Haraldi Bernharðssyni fimmtugum 12. apríl 2018. Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2018.
Ann-Marie Long. Iceland’s Relationship With Norway c. 870‒c. 1100: Memory, History And Identity. The Northern World, vol 81. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Saga 56, no. 2 (2018): 184‒87. [Review.]
Yfirrétturinn á Íslandi […]; Guðs dýrð og sálnanna velferð […]; Í nafni heilagrar guðdómsins þrenningar […]; Eftir skyldu míns embættis […]. Sjuttonhundratal 2018: 170‒72. [Review.]
The Politics of Space in Medieval Iceland. In Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir and Bergur Þorgeirsson, eds. The Buildings of Medieval Reykholt - The Wider Context. Rit Snorrastofu, vol. 9. Reykjavík: Snorrastofa and University of Iceland Press, 2017.
Árni Daníel Júlíusson. Miðaldir í Skuggsjá Svarfaðardals. Rit Þjóðminjasafns Íslands. Vol. 43. Reykjavík: Þjóðminjasafn Íslands og JPV útgáfa, 2016. Saga 55, no. 1 (2017): 215–18. [Review.]
Heroism. In Ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas. London: Routledge, 2017.
Language of Power: Feasting and Gift Giving in Medieval Iceland and its Sagas. Islandica. Vol. 60. Ithaca: Cornell University Library, 2016.
Sir Thomas More. Útópía. Translated by Eiríkur Gauti Kristjánsson with an introduction and commentary by Viðar Pálsson. Lærdómsrit Bókmenntafélagsins. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, 2016.
Að kaupa sér spássíu. In Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson, Margrét Eggertsdóttir, and Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, eds. Saltari: Stilltur og sleginn Svanhildi Óskarsdóttur fimmtugri 13. mars 2014, 20–21. Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2014.
Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, Bǫglunga saga, Magnúss saga lagabœtis. 2 vols. Edited by Þorleifur Hauksson, Sverrir Jakobsson, and Tor Ulset. Íslenzk fornrit. Vols. 31−32. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 2013. Saga 52, no. 1 (2014): 245–48. [Review.]
Sveinbjörn Rafnsson. Af fornum lögum og sögum: Fjórar ritgerðir um forníslenska sögu. Ritsafn Sagnfræðistofnunar. Vol. 42. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2011. Saga-Book 37 (2013): 99–102. [Review.]
Landslög Magnúsar lagabætis, and
Staðarhólsbók Grágásar. In Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, ed. 66 handrit úr fórum Árna Magnússonar, 102–103 and 112–13. Reykjavík: Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Bókaútgáfan Opna, 2013. [Also published in Danish and English.]
Steinar Imsen, ed. Taxes, Tributes and Tributary Lands in the Making of the Scandinavian Kingdoms in the Middle Ages. Trondheim: Tapir, 2011. The Medieval Review 2013 (February). [Review.]
Úlfar Bragason. Ætt og saga: Um frásagnarfræði Sturlungu eða Íslendinga sögu hinnar miklu. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2010. Saga-Book 36 (2012): 148–49. [Review.]
Ástfangnir höfðingjar. In Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Viðar Pálsson, and Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson, eds. Geislabaugur fægður Margaret Cormack sextugri 23. ágúst 2012, 84–86. Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2012.
Co-ed. with Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, and Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson. Geislabaugur fægður Margaret Cormack sextugri 23. ágúst 2012. Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen, 2012.
Konungsvald og aristókratía í Noregsveldi. Saga 50, no. 1 (2012): 173–83. [Review of Imsen, ed., The Norwegian Domination and the Norse World c. 1100–c.1400 (2010); Imsen, ed., Taxes, Tributes and Tributary Lands in the Making of the Scandinavian Kingdoms in the Middle Ages (2011); Wærdahl, The Incorporation and Integration of the King’s Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm c. 1195–1397 (2011); and Sigríður Beck, I kungens frånvaro: Formeringen av en isländsk aristokrati 1271–1387 (2011).]
Konungsvald í Noregi á miðöldum. Saga 49, no. 1 (2011): 175–86. [Review of Orning, Unpredictability and Presence: Norwegian Kingship in the High Middle Ages (2008); Miller, Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (2008); and Bagge, From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom: State Formation in Norway, c. 900–1350 (2010).]
Óskar Guðmundsson. Snorri: Ævisaga Snorra Sturlusonar 1179–1241. Reykjavík: JPV, 2009. Þjóðmál 6, no. 1 (2010): 64–68. [Review: ‘Gamalt vín á nýjum belgjum: Ævisaga Snorra Sturlusonar endurrituð’.]
Pagan Mythology in Christian Society. Gripla 19 (2008): 123–59.
Ágrip af sögu Fálkans: Gefið út á aldarafmæli félagsins 2004. Reykjavík: Fálkinn, 2004. [Short monograph.]
‘Var engi höfðingi slíkr sem Snorri.’ Auður og virðing í valdabaráttu Snorra Sturlusonar. Saga 41, no. 1 (2003): 55–96.
Glíman við fortíðina: Fortíðarvandi Wagnerfjölskyldunnar og Bayreuth-hátíðarinnar. Sagnir 22 (2002): 21–31.
‘Mun eigi það vel fallið að nýr bóndi taki upp nýjungar?’ Úr hugarheimi Björns Halldórssonar í Sauðlauksdal. Sagnir 21 (2001): 55–62.
Árni Björnsson. Wagner og Völsungar: Niflungahringurinn og íslenskar fornbókmenntir. Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2000, and Bjarki Bjarnason. Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands: Saga og stéttartal. Reykjavík: Sögusteinn, 2000. Saga 39 (2001): 269–73. [Review.]
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP, SUPERVISORY EDITORSHIP
Editorial committee (ritnefnd) of Saga, member since 2021.
Editor of Tímarit lögfræðinga 73, no. 4 (2023) with Valgerður Sólnes.
Supervisory editor (faglegur ritstjóri) on behalf of University of Iceland Press of Haraldur Bernharðsson, ed. Íslensk klausturmenning á miðöldum. Reykjavík: Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands, 2016.
Editor of Gripla 23 (2012) with Gísli Sigurðsson, Gripla 24 (2013) and 25 (2014) with Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, and Gripla 26 (2015) with Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Emily Lethbridge.