Jonas Wellendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 4166450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonas Wellendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonas |
| FAMILY NAME | Wellendorf |
| SIGNATURE | WELLENDORF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3721-4930 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
An Icelandic Literary Florilegium
This worthy celebration of the scholarship and career of Úlfar Bragason consists of twelve essays of varying length treating a number of occasionally eclectic topics within the general fields of medieval and postmedieval Icelandic literature. In a brief introduction, the editors present the recipient's scholarly achievements and describe his untiring work, as director of the Sigurður Nordal Institute, to promote Icelandic Studies internationally.…
The Stranger-King in Hvítramannaland
The article argues that the Old Norse notion of Hvítramannaland/Írland it mikla is by no means a wholesale borrowing from Irish voyage narratives, as has been argued in recent scholarship. Rather, it is a fictional space that combines widespread ideas of stranger-kings and lost islands with the notion of Ireland as a strange, forbidding but also marvellously paradoxical location from which most would be advised to keep a safe distance
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature
What makes a people? The answer to this question will vary depending on whom one asks and which people one has in mind. For an early medieval perspective, one may turn to Isidore of Seville who at first glance appears to subscribe to a genealogical notion of peoplehood, which he sees inscribed in
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature
What makes a people? The answer to this question will vary depending on whom one asks and which people one has in mind. For an early medieval perspective, one may turn to Isidore of Seville who at first glance appears to subscribe to a genealogical notion of peoplehood, which he sees inscribed in the noun gens, one of the Latin terms for “people”: A nation (gens) is a number of people sharing a single origin, or distinguished from another nation …
Austrfararvísur and Interreligious Contacts in Conversion Age Scandinavia
This article examines stanzas 4-8 of Sigvatr Þórðarson’s poem Austrfararvísur which describe the famous confrontation between the Christian skald and the inhospitable pagan inhabitants of a remote place. Rather than see the rejections of the skald as caused by the private nature of the alfablót, they are understood as a symptom of the fact that the traditional religion was changing in response to the pressure exerted by the Christian mission. RES…
Honey and Poison
The Ǫgvaldsnes episode from Oddr munkr’s Óláfs saga Tryggavasonar and Acallam na Senórach, two roughly contemporary and somewhat similar texts, show how different strategies have been employed to reframe the pagan past and neutralise the poison of this material that worried early doctors of the church such as St Basil. The two texts propose different answers to Alcuin’s oft-cited question about the relationship between Christianity and pagan trad…
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia
Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection
Book Review| October 01 2017 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection. Eds. Matthew James Driscoll and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015. Pp. 237. Jonas Wellendorf Jonas Wellendorf University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2017) 89 (3): 427–428. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.89.3.0427 C…
No need for mead
This paper will see Bjarni Kolbeinsson as a representative of the new kind of skaldic poetry that had developed around the turn of the thirteenth century. By then, formal skaldic poetry had become an art form cultivated by men who had received schooling and clerical ordination. Skalds such as Bjarni had turned their attention from the praise of kings of the present or the near past towards subjects of the more distant past and religious themes. I…
Orð æftir orðe. Literal Translation into Old Norse
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The Interplay of Pagan and Christian Traditions in Icelandic Settlement Myths
The Interplay of Pagan and Christian Traditions in Icelandic Settlement Myths Jonas Wellendorf Medieval Icelanders took pride in their cultural inheritance and descent. They knew that being a new nation was something out of the ordinary, and they cultivated a remarkable literary tradition about their past. They preserved tales of the distant heroic Scandinavian past as well as of more recent Icelandic events, but the tradition that concerned the …
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature
What makes a people? The answer to this question will vary depending on whom one asks and which people one has in mind. For an early medieval perspective, one may turn to Isidore of Seville who at first glance appears to subscribe to a genealogical notion of peoplehood, which he sees inscribed in the noun gens, one of the Latin terms for “people”: A nation (gens) is a number of people sharing a single origin, or distinguished from another nation …
The Interplay of Pagan and Christian Traditions in Icelandic Settlement Myths
The Interplay of Pagan and Christian Traditions in Icelandic Settlement Myths Jonas Wellendorf Medieval Icelanders took pride in their cultural inheritance and descent. They knew that being a new nation was something out of the ordinary, and they cultivated a remarkable literary tradition about their past. They preserved tales of the distant heroic Scandinavian past as well as of more recent Icelandic events, but the tradition that concerned the …
Orð æftir orðe. Literal Translation into Old Norse
Preview this article: Orð æftir orðe. Literal Translation into Old Norse, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/nowele.62-63.08wel-1.gif
No need for mead
This paper will see Bjarni Kolbeinsson as a representative of the new kind of skaldic poetry that had developed around the turn of the thirteenth century. By then, formal skaldic poetry had become an art form cultivated by men who had received schooling and clerical ordination. Skalds such as Bjarni had turned their attention from the praise of kings of the present or the near past towards subjects of the more distant past and religious themes. I…
Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection
Book Review| October 01 2017 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection. Eds. Matthew James Driscoll and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015. Pp. 237. Jonas Wellendorf Jonas Wellendorf University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2017) 89 (3): 427–428. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.89.3.0427 C…
Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia
Honey and Poison
The Ǫgvaldsnes episode from Oddr munkr’s Óláfs saga Tryggavasonar and Acallam na Senórach, two roughly contemporary and somewhat similar texts, show how different strategies have been employed to reframe the pagan past and neutralise the poison of this material that worried early doctors of the church such as St Basil. The two texts propose different answers to Alcuin’s oft-cited question about the relationship between Christianity and pagan trad…
The Stranger-King in Hvítramannaland
The article argues that the Old Norse notion of Hvítramannaland/Írland it mikla is by no means a wholesale borrowing from Irish voyage narratives, as has been argued in recent scholarship. Rather, it is a fictional space that combines widespread ideas of stranger-kings and lost islands with the notion of Ireland as a strange, forbidding but also marvellously paradoxical location from which most would be advised to keep a safe distance
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature
What makes a people? The answer to this question will vary depending on whom one asks and which people one has in mind. For an early medieval perspective, one may turn to Isidore of Seville who at first glance appears to subscribe to a genealogical notion of peoplehood, which he sees inscribed in
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature
What makes a people? The answer to this question will vary depending on whom one asks and which people one has in mind. For an early medieval perspective, one may turn to Isidore of Seville who at first glance appears to subscribe to a genealogical notion of peoplehood, which he sees inscribed in the noun gens, one of the Latin terms for “people”: A nation (gens) is a number of people sharing a single origin, or distinguished from another nation …
Austrfararvísur and Interreligious Contacts in Conversion Age Scandinavia
This article examines stanzas 4-8 of Sigvatr Þórðarson’s poem Austrfararvísur which describe the famous confrontation between the Christian skald and the inhospitable pagan inhabitants of a remote place. Rather than see the rejections of the skald as caused by the private nature of the alfablót, they are understood as a symptom of the fact that the traditional religion was changing in response to the pressure exerted by the Christian mission. RES…
An Icelandic Literary Florilegium
This worthy celebration of the scholarship and career of Úlfar Bragason consists of twelve essays of varying length treating a number of occasionally eclectic topics within the general fields of medieval and postmedieval Icelandic literature. In a brief introduction, the editors present the recipient's scholarly achievements and describe his untiring work, as director of the Sigurður Nordal Institute, to promote Icelandic Studies internationally.…
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
The Pre-Christian Religions of the North
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