Jackson Crawford

Dr. Jackson Crawford is an American YouTuber, philologist, and former college educator in Old Norse language, literature, and myth. These topics are the primary subjects of his channel, with 206 videos devoted to Norse mythology, 107 videos on Norse sagas and poetry, 85 videos acting as lessons on Old Norse language, and 59 videos discussing the runic alphabets.
Crawford's intentions are to spread reliable and up to date information about Norse mythology, language, and culture without modern agendas or biases and academic elitism seen in many similar educational youtubers or official sources and as of 2020 he has become a full time online educator.
==History==
Prior to online education, Crawford was a professor at the Universities of California, Berkley, UCLA, and Colorado Boulder. While he created his channel in 2012, his first videos, meant to be used as a resource for his students to reference, were uploaded in 2016. At some point, he came to the conclusion that he would be able to reach more people through the internet than a classroom and would be able to offer better information than the "self-appointed gurus" that are common on the internet and often come with their own agendas, as well as present it free of the "ivory tower elitism" seen in academia.
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