I have a broad interest in religion and have published several studies in the area. These incude my work Nordic Religions in the Viking Age, which looks at the interaction of cultural and religious communities in the Nordic region for the half milennium spanning c. 800-1300. Together with a number of colleagues in the field, I put together a compendium of texts and articles on Nordic saints entitled Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. I have also completed work on an overview study of shamanic traditions entitled An Introduction to Shamanism. My current monograph project also focuses on religion, particularly as expressed through religious wood carving in the Nordic-Baltic region.

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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

An Introduction to Shamanism. Introduction to Religion Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Selected articles:

“A History Seen: The Uses of Illumination in Flateyjarbók.”  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103(1) (2004):1-52.

"Rituals, Witnesses, and Sagas" In Old Nors Religion in Long-Term Perspective: Origins, Changes, and Interactions. Ed. Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharina Raudvere. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006. Pp. 74-78.