Johanna Fridriksdottir

Bio

 Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir studied at universities in Reykjavík, Iceland, and Brighton before completing her doctorate in medieval literature from the University of Oxford in 2010. She held research fellowships at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík and at Harvard University from 2010 to 2016. She has published articles and a book about medieval literature and manuscripts, and edited scholarly publications in the same fields. 

 Jóhanna is currently working on a number of projects, including a book called Valkyrie: Viking Women in Life and Legend, published in 2019 by Bloomsbury in London, and a long-term project on late medieval Icelandic literature and culture. She is also contributing to a documentary by Ash Thayer entitled Viking Women: The Crying Bones, which portrays women fighters in the Viking reenactment world. 

 Jóhanna’s research interests focus on Vikings, Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology, and poetry, medieval manuscripts, late medieval Iceland, gender, and identity issues more broadly.