🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!

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Presenting on the use of Viking imagery in terrorist manifestos at this conference on online extremism in Bilbao. Lovely venue, heavy subject matter.

Published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about Kash Patel's use of the white-supremacist dog whistle 'see you in Valhalla'. For my uncensored feelings on the subject, please just see the image below.

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4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

I'm excited to see that my book 'Runes: A Concise History' is now up on the OUP website, and carries an endorsement by the amazing @joannechocolat.bsky.social, among others. What a lovely thing to find out at the end of the week! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Wrote the forward to this collection of short stories about Loki. It's a handsome book!

Really delighted to receive UCC's Researcher of the Year award at the Glucksman Gallery yesterday evening, surrounded by such talented people!

Presenting at this wonderful conference later today. Seems like most Old English scholars are in attendance.

🚨Job alert 🚨 Delighted to advertise the first position on my ERC Project: a 4.5-year Digital Humanities / Computer Science Postdoc (with or without a background in Viking studies). Come and work in a super department in the real capital of Ireland!

Details at ore.ucc.ie
Job ref: 085873

Looks like my children's book is out in German! Photographed by a former student in the Neues Museum in Berlin 😊 www.penguin.de/buecher/tom-...

Lucky enough to see this wonderful exhibition 'Unha vida viquinga' / 'A Viking Life' in Santiago de Compostela over the holidays. Brilliant work by Irene García and all those involved.