Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe

Jan Erik Rekdal & Charles Doherty, editors

Living with war: poets and the Welsh experience c.600–1300
Marged Haycock

Warrior and king in Early Ireland
Charles Doherty

The medieval king: Christian king and fearless warrior
Jan Erik Rekdal

Monsters of the tribe: berserk fury, shapeshifting and social dysfunction in Táin Bó Cúailnge, Egils saga and Hrólfs saga kraka
Ralph O’Connor

Warrior time
Morgan Thomas Davies

The low men on the totem pole: warriors and rulers in Old Norse texts from c.1200
Ian Beuermann

Óláfr Haraldsson, king, warrior and saint: presentations of King Óláfr Haraldsson the Saint in medieval poetry and prose
Jon Gunnar Jørgensen

The role and identity of the warrior: self-reflection and awareness in Old Norse literary and social spaces
Stefka G. Eriksen