Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
Verena Höfig received her M.A. degree from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, Germany and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She also studied at Háskóli Íslands in Reykjavík, Iceland and spent several summers in Uppsala, Sweden and on archaeological field sites in Scandinavia.
Research Interests
Viking Age and Medieval Scandinavia, Medieval Germany, Cultural Memory, Material Culture, Nationalism, Gender Studies, Post-Humanism and Animal Studies
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
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Medieval Period
Arts & Humanities
Topography
Arts & Humanities
Iceland
Arts & Humanities
Viking
Arts & Humanities
Material Culture
Arts & Humanities
Viking Age
Arts & Humanities
Gender Studies
Arts & Humanities
Scandinavia
Arts & Humanities
Research Output 2007 2018
A Pre-Modern Nation? Icelanders' Ethnogenesis and Its Mythical Foundations
Höfig, V., 2018, In : Scandinavian Studies. 90, 1, p. 110-132Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Remembering Origins
Höfig, V., Nov 19 2018, Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Glauser, J., Hermann, P. & Mitchell, S. A. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 762-768Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Legendary Topography of the Viking Settlement of Iceland
Hoefig, V. J., 2018, In : Landscapes: Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. 8, 1, 20 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Iceland
Topography
Viking
Ownership
Prose
Foundational Myth in Sturlubók: An Analysis of the Tale of Ingólfr and Hjörleifr
Hoefig, V. J., 2017, Sturla Þórðarson (1214-1284): Life and Legacy. Nordal, G., Sigurðsson, J. V. & Jakobsson, S. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 70-82Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Review: M.D.J. Bintley and T.J.T. Williams' (eds.) Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Höfig, V., Jul 2017, In : Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 116, 3, p. 373-377Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review