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is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.

is a specialist in the early medieval Scandinavians and professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, where he also directs the national Centre for the World in the Viking Age. He ...