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Name
  
Judith Jesch


Institutions
  
University of Nottingham

Alma mater
  
Durham University, University College London

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Books
  
Women in the Viking Age, Ships and men in the late Vikin, Viking Poetry of Love and, The Viking Diaspora, Wirral and Its Viking Heritage

Institution
  
University of Nottingham

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Judith Jesch (born 1954) is professor of Viking studies at the University of Nottingham. Jesch is chair of the international Runic Advisory Group and president of the English Place-Name Society.

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Life

Jesch received her advanced education at Durham University and University College London. She was keynote speaker at the 2015 Norse in the North Conference.

She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Selected publications

  • Women in the Viking Age. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 1991. ISBN 978-0-85115-360-5. 
  • Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Boydell & Brewer. 1 January 2001. ISBN 978-0-85115-826-6. 
  • Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity. Brepols, 2012. (Edited with K. Zilmer) ISBN 9782503542942
  • Viking Poetry of Love and War. The British Museum Press, 2013. ISBN 9780714128306
  • "Earl Rögnvaldr of Orkney: A Poet of the Viking Diaspora", Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 4, 2013, pp. 154–60.
  • "Runes and Words: Runic Lexicography in Context", Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies. 4, 77-100, 2013.
  • The Viking Diaspora. Taylor & Francis. 5 June 2015. ISBN 978-1-317-48253-6. 
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  • Judith Jesch, ed. (1 July 2012). The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-728-2. 

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