Judith Jesch is Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham with research interests in runes, sagas and Old Norse poetry. She was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Durham, Oslo and London, is a Fellow of the British Academy and is an international working member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Uppsala, Sweden.

'A new look at the Saga was long overdue and Judith Jesch has completed a meticulous work going back to what she describes as the "patchwork of manuscript fragments", that survive'

Judith Jesch is Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham with research interests in runes, sagas and Old Norse poetry. She was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Durham, Oslo and London, is a Fellow of the British Academy and is an international working member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Uppsala, Sweden.

'A new look at the Saga was long overdue and Judith Jesch has completed a meticulous work going back to what she describes as the "patchwork of manuscript fragments", that survive'

Judith Jesch is Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham with research interests in runes, sagas and Old Norse poetry. She was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Durham, Oslo and London, is a Fellow of the British Academy and is an international working member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Uppsala, Sweden.

'A new look at the Saga was long overdue and Judith Jesch has completed a meticulous work going back to what she describes as the "patchwork of manuscript fragments", that survive'