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Dr Alexander Wilson

Research Associate in Old Norse Language and Literature

School/Department: Archaeology and Ancient History, School of

Email: ajw118@leicester.ac.uk

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My research focuses on the textual sources of the medieval North, particularly the Íslendingasögur (sagas of Icelanders). As a doctoral student at Durham University (2013–2017), I investigated the sociopolitical elements of Old Icelandic outlaw narratives. As a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Tübingen (2018–2023), I researched and published on the formal and narratological qualities of poetic quotation in saga literature. I joined the SAAH in early 2024 as a research associate on the ERC project Body-Politics (PI Dr. Marianne Hem Eriksen).

2024–     Research associate: Body-Politics (Leicester: ERC)

2020–2023     Research associate: The Íslendingasögur as Prosimetrum (Tübingen: DFG)

2018–2019     Guest lecturer (Tübingen: Teach@Tübingen)

2013–2017     Doctoral student (Durham: AHRC)

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