Dale Kedwards

Dale’s expertise focusses on a variety of texts composed and written in Old Norse-Icelandic, including the Icelandic sagas, mythological poetry, and the little-studied manuscripts containing what is usually called alfræði (‘encyclopaedic texts’), comprising a nebulous mix of natural philosophy, history, and literature. He is especially interested in how medieval peoples conceptualised the world and its geography, a subject he has explored in relation to Old Norse literary genre, political cultures, and origin myths. He is author of The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland (2020) and is presently writing a second book on medieval imagery in the space sciences, titled The Cosmic Dark Ages.

Dale completed a PhD at the University of York in 2015 and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.