Nicholas Birns
@nicholasbirns.bsky.social
Academic, literary critic etc. teaching at NYU. Books from Cambridge UP, Bloomsbury, Broadview, Palgrave, U of South Carolina P, Sydney UP, Routledge. He/him
Very great scholar.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Very great scholar.
He was a very great scholar.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
He was a very great scholar.
He was skeptical, really, only of the last one. He would have embedded, as it were, family resemblances around the other ones, but the mythic Scandinavian origin is something that is not his historically attested and he was right to argue that.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
He was skeptical, really, only of the last one. He would have embedded, as it were, family resemblances around the other ones, but the mythic Scandinavian origin is something that is not his historically attested and he was right to argue that.
He was a great scholar who I much admired.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
He was a great scholar who I much admired.