Anthony Faulkes (d.o.b. 23.6.1937)
Home address: 210 Broughty Ferry Road
Dundee DD4 6LD
Tel. 01382699385
e-mail anthony.faulkes@talktalk.net
Curriculum Vitae
1957-60

Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford
Violet Vaughan Morgan Scholar in English literature at Oxford University

1960

BA (II) in English Language and Literature, Oxford University, specialising in Old and Middle
English and Old Norse

1960-61

Research at University of Iceland on Icelandic Government Scholarship

1963

Appointed Assistant Lecturer, Department of English, Birkbeck College, University of London[1964MA (Oxford)]

1965

BLitt (Oxford) in Old Norse literature

1966

Appointed lecturer, Department of English, Birkbeck College

1973

Appointed Lecturer, Department of English, University of Birmingham

1978

Promoted Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Birmingham

1979

Became joint editor of Viking Society Text Series

1981

Dr phil, University of Iceland
Title of Reader in Old Icelandic, University of Birmingham

1982-5External Examiner, Scandinavian Studies, University of London

1983-6External Examiner, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos, University of Cambridge

1983

Became joint editor, Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research

1984

Became managing editor, Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research

1985-6

Member of team of examiners for OECD Reviews of National Policies for Education: Iceland

1986-8President of Viking Society for Northern Research

1991

General editor of Viking Society books

1992

Knight's cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon conferred by the President of Iceland for services
to Icelandic scholarship
Title of Professor of Old Icelandic at University of Birmingham

1994

Member of assessment committee to advise on the appointment of the Head of Stofnun ÁrnaMagnússonar á Íslandi and Professor at the University of Iceland

1998

Opponent at Doctoral defence of Einar G. Pétursson2001

Retired. Title of Emeritus Professor of Old Icelandic.
Honorary Fellow, Department of English, University of Birmingham.
Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences.
Snorri Sturluson Fellow at Stofnun Sigurdar Nordals, Iceland, July–September.

2007

Retired from editorship of Saga-Book and Text Series

Anthony Faulkes — Publications
Books:*Rauðúlfs þáttr. A Study. Reykjavík 1966 (Studia Islandica 25). 93 pp.
Review article by Ole Widding, ‘Dating Rauðúlfs þáttr’, Mediaeval
Scandinavia I (1968), pp. 115–21.
*(Ed.) Two Icelandic Stories. Hreiðars þáttr. Orms þáttr. London 1967 (VikingSociety for Northern Research Text Series IV). x + 165 pp.
Reprinted with minor additions 1978. Second edition 2011. viii + 168 pp.
Review by Pierre Halleux in Mediaeval Scandinavia I (1968), pp. 187–8.
(Ed.) Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. I. Edda MagnúsarÓlafssonar. II. Edda Islandorum. Reykjavík 1977–9 (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar áÍslandi. Rit 13–14). 509 pp., 104 + [446] pp.
Reviews by Heiko Uecker in Germanistik 23 (1982), pp. 735–6.
Christian Peeters in Scriptorium 36 (1982), p. 90*.
J. Harris in Speculum 57 (1982), p. 966.
B. Ejder in Arkiv för nordisk filologi 97 (1982), pp. 209–10.
Bjarne Fidjestøl in Historisk Tidsskrift [Oslo] 62 (1983), pp. 460–62.
*(Ed.) Stories from the Sagas of the Kings. London: Viking Society for Northern
Research 1980. xxiv + 206 pp. New edition as Stories from Sagas of Kings. 2007.
xvii+ 153 pp.
(Ed.) Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Prologue and Gylfaginning. Oxford: Clarendon Press
1982. xxxiv + 177 pp.
2000.

Reprinted in paperback, London: Viking Society for Northern Research 1988,*Second edition. London: Viking Society for Northern Research 2005. xxxii+ 180 pp.
Reviews by M. Ciklamini in Scandinavian Studies 55 (1983), pp. 261–2.
L. Holm-Olsen in Scandinavica 23 (1984), pp. 59–60.
*Margaret Clunies Ross in Saga-Book 21 (1982–5), pp. 296–9.
B. Ejder in Arkiv för nordisk filologi 98 (1983), p. 240.
Heather O’Donoghue in Review of English Studies (1985), pp. 250–1.
(Ed.) Codex Trajectinus. The Utrecht Manuscript of the Prose Edda. Copenhagen
1985 (Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile XV). 22 + [120] pp.
(Tr.) Snorri Sturluson. Edda. London: Dent, Everyman’s Library 1987. xx + 252 pp.
2002.

Reprinted with corrections 1992, 1995 (with additions), 1997, 1998, 2000,
Reviews by Magnús Magnússon, TES 17.7.87, p. 20.
News from Iceland, November 1987.
Diana Whaley in Scandinavica 27 (1988), pp. 86–8.
*Rory McTurk in Saga-Book XXII 2 (1988), pp. 290–7.

(Ed.) Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Háttatal. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xxviii + 169
pp. *Paperback edition Viking Society for Northern Research 1999.
Notice in Lingua 86 (1992), p. 393.
Reviews by Christian Peeters in Justificatif. RBPH 70 (1992) no 3.
Stephen N. Tranter in Scandinavica 32:1, 79–80.
Kirsten Wolf in Speculum 1994, 258–9.
Judy Quinn in JEGP 1994, 87–8.
*What was viking poetry for? Inaugural lecture delivered on 27th April 1993 in theUniversity of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham School of English
1993. 28 pp.

Magnúsarkver: The Writings of Magnús Ólafsson of Laufás. Reykjavík: Stofnun ÁrnaMagnússonar á Íslandi. Rit 40. 1993. 144 pp.
*Poetical inspiration in Old Norse and Old English Poetry. The Dorothea Coke
Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies delivered at University College London 28November 1997. London: Viking Society for Northern Research 1998. 32 pp.
*(Ed.) Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Skáldskaparmál. 1. Introduction, Text and Notes; 2.
Glossary and Index of Names. London: Viking Society for Northern Research
1998. lxxii +230 , vi +298 pp.
*(Ed.and tr.) Ólafur Halldórsson, Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest
Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason. London: Viking Society for Northern Research 2000.
106 pp.
*(Comp.) A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part III: Glossary and Index of Names.
London: Viking Society for Northern Research 2001. 151 pp. Second edition
2002. 160 pp. Third edition 2005. 206 pp. Fourth edition 2007. 318 pp.
*(Ed. and tr.) Árni Björnsson, Wagner and the Volsungs. Icelandic Sources of derRing des Nibelungen. London: Viking Society for Northern Research 2003. 294pp.
*(Ed.and tr.) Three Icelandic Outlaw sagas. The Saga of Gisli, Translated by George
Johnston; The Saga of Grettir, The Saga of Hord, Translated by Anthony Faulkes.
London: Everyman 2001. xlvi+401 pp. Reissued London: Viking Society for
Northern Research 2004. xxviii +388 pp.
*(Ed. with Gunnlaugur Ingólfsson) Magnús Ólafsson of Laufás, Specimen Lexici
Runici and Glossarium Priscæ Linguæ Danicæ. Reykjavík: Stofnun ÁrnaMagússonar í Íslenskum fræðum. London: Viking Society for Northern Research
2010. Orðfræðirit fyrri alda V. xlvi + 492 pp.
*(Tr., with Alison Finlay) Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla I. London: Viking Societyfor Northern Research 2011. xxvi + 262 pp. 2nd edition 2016. xxvi + 265 pp.
Reviews by Sarah Baccianti in The Medieval Review 13.09.28.
Kate Heslop in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2014,pp. 372–74.
*(Tr.) Heimir Pálsson (ed.), The Uppsala Edda. London: Viking Society for Northern
Research 2012. cxxxiv + 327 pp.
Review by Kevin J. Wanner in The Medieval Review 13.07.09.
*(Tr., with Alison Finlay) Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla II. London: Viking Society
for Northern Research 2014. xxvii + 339 pp.
*(Tr., with Alison Finlay) Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla III. London: Viking Society
for Northern Research 2015. xxii + 292 pp.
*The Life and Works of James Easson The Dundee People’s Poet. Dundee: Thorisdal
2016. 181 pp.

Contributions to books:(Tr.) ‘The Story of Prince Hlini’, ‘Wake-Well and his brothers’, ‘The Story of Hild
the Good Stepmother’, in European Folk Tales, ed. Laurits Bødker et al.,Copenhagen 1963, pp. 50–63 (European Folk-Lore Series I).
*‘The Genealogies and Regnal Lists in a Manuscript in Resen’s Library’, in Sjötíu
ritgerðir helgaðar Jakobi Benediktssyni 20. júlí 1977, I, Reykjavík: Stofnun ÁrnaMagnússonar 1977, pp. 177–90.
*‘Pagan Sympathy: Attitudes to Heathendom in the Prologue to Snorra Edda’, inEdda: A Collection of Essays, ed. R. J. Glendinning and H. Bessason, Manitoba
1983, pp. 283–314 (University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies 4).
‘Introduction’ to The Saga of Hord and the Holm-Dwellers, tr. A. Boucher, Reykjavík
1983 (Iceland Review Saga Series), pp. 9–17.
*‘Glossary and Index’ to Hávamál, edited by David A. H. Evans, London 1987
(Viking Society Text Series VII (ii)). 40 pp.
‘The Use of Snorri’s Verse-Forms by Earlier Norse Poets’, in Snorrastefna 25.–27
júlí 1990, ed. Úlfar Bragason, Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals 1992, pp. 35–51 (Rit Stofnunar Sigurðar Nordals I).
*‘The sources of Skáldskaparmál: Snorri’s intellectual background’, in Snorri
Sturluson. Kolloquium anläßlich der 750. Wiederkehr seines Todestages.
Herausgegeben von Alois Wolf. Tübingen 1993, pp. 59–76 (ScriptOralia 51).
‘Harðar saga’, ‘Outlaw Sagas’, ‘Snorra Edda’, in Medieval Scandinavia. An
Encyclopedia, ed. Phillip Pulsiano, New York and London: Garland Publishing
1993, pp. 269, 460, 600–602.
‘Snorri’s rhetorical categories’, in Sagnaþing helgað Jónasi Kristjánssyni sjötugum
10. apríl 1994, Reykjavík: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag 1994, pp. 167–176.
*‘The Study of Old Icelandic. An Introduction to the sources’ and extracts II andXIX in A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part II: Reader. London: Viking Societyfor Northern Research 2001. xlviii + 124 pp. Second edition 2002. xlviii + 138 pp.
Third edition 2005. xlviii + 253 pp.
*‘Glossary’ in Egils saga, ed. Bjarni Einarsson, London: Viking Society for Northern
Research 2003, pp. 190–291.
‘Snorri Sturluson: his life and work’, in The Viking World., ed. Stefan Brink, London:
Routledge 2008, pp. 311–314.
‘Outlaws in Medieval England and Iceland’, in Greppaminni. Essays in Honour ofVésteinn Ólason, Reykjavík: Hið Íslenska Bókmenntafélag 2009, pp. 136–148.
‘Snorra Edda’, in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork.
London: Oxford University Press 2010, Vol. 3, pp.

Edited Books:
Jean Young. Letters from Iceland 1936. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham
School of English 1992. 76 pp.
*Joint editor (with Richard Perkins): Viking Revaluations. Viking Society Centenary
Symposium 14–15 May 1992. London: Viking Society for Northern Research,
1993. viii+ 216 pp.
*Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series VII–XVIII, 1987–2006.
*Ólafur Halldórsson, Text by Snorri Sturluson in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta.
London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2001. lxii + 162 pp.
*A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part II: Reader. London: Viking Society for
Northern Research 2001. xlviii + 124 pp. Second edition 2002. xlviii + 138 pp.
Third edition 2005. xlviii + 253 pp. Fourth edition 2007. xlii + 388 pp. Fifthedition 2011. xliv + 394 pp.
*Einar Ólafur Sveinsson, The Folk-Stories of Iceland. Revised by Einar G. Pétursson,translated by Benedikt Benedikz. London: Viking Society for Northern Research2003. 319 pp.
*Stefán Karlsson, The Icelandic Language. Translated by Rory McTurk. London:Viking Society for Northern Research 2004. 84 pp.
Articles:‘The Sources of Specimen Lexici Runici’, Lingua Islandica 5 (1964), pp. 30–138.
*‘Magnús Ólafsson’s Fríssdrápa’, Saga-Book 18 (1970–73), pp. 167–94.
*‘Edda’, Gripla II, Reykjavík 1977, pp. 32–9.
‘The Prologue to Snorra Edda: An Attempt at Reconstruction’, Gripla III, Reykjavík
1979, pp. 204–13.
*‘Descent from the gods’, Mediaeval Scandinavia 11 (1978–9) [1983], pp. 92–125.
‘Um Eddurit Jóns Guðmundssonar Lærða’, Ræða Anthony Faulkes, Gripla XI,Reykjavík 2000, pp. 273–83. [Opponent’s speech at doctoral defence of Einar G.
Pétursson, 1998; shortened English version in alvíssmál 9, 1999, 100b–106a]*‘The Earliest Icelandic Genealogies and Regnal lists’, Saga-Book 29 (2005), pp.
115–19.
‘A New Medieval Carol Text?’, Notes and Queries 250 [New Series, Vol. 52]. No. 4,December 2005, 445.
*‘The Viking Mind or In Pursuit of the Viking’, Saga-Book 31 (2007), pp. 46–83.
‘A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Magnús Ólafsson’s Edda’, Gripla XXV,
Reykjavík 2014, pp. 259–67.
Reviews in *Saga-Book XVII 4 (1969), XX 1–2 (1979–80), XX 4 (1981), XXI 3–4(1984–5), XXII 2 (1987), XXII 7 (1989), XXIII 5 (1992); The Modern Language
Review October 1974, April 1976, July 1988; Medium Ævum LXVIII, 1999, 159–162; alvíssmál 9, 1999, 100b–106a.
* On website.