Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Stephen A. Mitchell has written a well informed and informative book on an interesting subject. He shows an excellent knowledge of the texts as well as of the impressive amount of secondary literature on the question. He also is familiar with the philological problems as well as those pertaining to the transmission of texts and motifs between different areas of the North.(Journal of English and Germanic Philology) Throughout Heroic Sagas and Ballads, the reader is well served by both Mitchell's balanced synthesis of past scholarship and his commentary and insights. His bibliography is invaluable.(Scandinavian Studies)

Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Stephen A. Mitchell has written a well informed and informative book on an interesting subject. He shows an excellent knowledge of the texts as well as of the impressive amount of secondary literature on the question. He also is familiar with the philological problems as well as those pertaining to the transmission of texts and motifs between different areas of the North.(Journal of English and Germanic Philology) Throughout Heroic Sagas and Ballads, the reader is well served by both Mitchell's balanced synthesis of past scholarship and his commentary and insights. His bibliography is invaluable.(Scandinavian Studies)

Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages.

Stephen A. Mitchell has written a well informed and informative book on an interesting subject. He shows an excellent knowledge of the texts as well as of the impressive amount of secondary literature on the question. He also is familiar with the philological problems as well as those pertaining to the transmission of texts and motifs between different areas of the North.(Journal of English and Germanic Philology) Throughout Heroic Sagas and Ballads, the reader is well served by both Mitchell's balanced synthesis of past scholarship and his commentary and insights. His bibliography is invaluable.(Scandinavian Studies)