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Dick Ringler
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Department of Scandinavian Studies
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Dick Ringler
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Ringler is emeritus Professor of English and Scandinavian Studies. He
teaches courses in Old Norse-Icelandic, the Vikings, Old English, Beowulf,
and Anglo-Saxon Cultural History. He is currently working on a translation
of poetry and prose by Jónas Hallgrímsson. For
up-to-date information see Jónas
Hallgrímsson  .
To contact him, email rringler@facstaff.wisc.edu
Educational Background
1955 A.B. Harvard College
1956 M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
1961 Ph.D. Harvard University
Relevant Publications
| 1966 |
"Him So Wen Geleah: The Design for Irony in Grendel's Last
Visit to Heorot." Speculum 41 (1966), 49-67.
"Fyrirmynd Kvæðisins `Um þá fyrri öld
og þessa' eftir Stefán Ólafsson." Mímir
7 (1966), 20-22.
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| 1967 |
Introduction and Bibliography to Gunnar Gunnarsson, The Black
Cliffs [Svartfugl], tr. Cecil Wood. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1967. |
| 1971 |
Bright's Old English Grammar and Reader, 3rd ed., ed. Frederic
G. Cassidy and Richard N. Ringler. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
Inc., 1971. |
| 1972 |
"The Saga of the Men of Svínafell: An Episode from the Age
of the Sturlungs," in Saga og Språk: Studies in Language
and Literature, ed. John M. Weinstock. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1972. |
| 1975 |
"The Poems of Tómas Guðmundsson." Scandinavian Review
63 (1975), 27-39. |
| 1979 |
Chief editorial consultant for The Vikings. New York: Time-Life
Books, 1979. |
| 1980 |
"To Go A-Viking." Oceans 12 (1980), 18-26. |
| 1987 |
"Introduction: The Background of the Controversy and Its Larger
Implications," in "The Pros and Cons of Sigurður A. Magnússon's
Translations of Postwar Icelandic Poetry. Scandinavian Studies
58 (1986), 31-4. |
| 1992 |
Co-editor (with Joan H. Hall and Nick Doane) of Old English and
New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Fredric G. Cassidy.
New York: Garland, 1992. |
| 1995 |
"`Styð eg mig að steini': Uppruni, þróun og
merking ljóðs eftir Jónas Hallgrímssonar."
Skírnir 169 (1995), 7-35. |
| 1996 |
"Gender Reversal in Jónas Hallgrímsson's Icelandic
Adaptation of Goethe's `Nähe des Geliebten,'" in Litteratur
og Kjønn i Norden. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan,
1966. |
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