Poetry and Place in the Viking World Alicia Maddalena and Matt Townend
Event details
Come and discover the pleasures and surprises of Viking verse, with poetry about journeys and landscapes, halls and battlefields, and the many places of the Viking world.
In keeping with our Festival theme, Alicia Maddalena and Matt Townend of the University of York host an evening of Viking poetry exploring ideas of place and space.
Early booking is advised as previous years’ events have sold out.
About the speakers
Alicia Maddalena is an Associate Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature and is a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, UK. She specialises in Old Norse language and literature and is particularly interested in lexical approaches to Old Norse poetry.
Matt Townend is a Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature, and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, UK. He is interested in Old Norse language and literature, the history and culture of Viking Age England, and medievalism and philology in the 19th century. His publications include Viking Age Yorkshire (2014) and The Victorians and English Dialect (2024).