My PhD research was funded over three years (2012-15) as a part of the Rannís funded research project, Paranormal encounters in medieval Iceland (Icel. Tekist á við yfirnáttúruna á Íslandi á miðöldum), led by principal investigator Ármann Jakobsson. My own research was focused on paranormal dreams in the Sagas about early Icelanders (Icel. Íslendingasögur).
Publications
“A note on the Old Norse-Icelandic verb at dreyma, “to dream”.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (1), pp. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.5406/1945662X.121.1.01
“Even a henchman can dream: Dreaming at the margins in Brennu-Njáls saga.” In Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400, ed. Ármann Jakobsson and Miriam Mayburd. Berlin: De Gruyter, Medieval Institute Publications, 2020, pp. 279–94. http://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513862-017
“The discourse of dreams in medieval Icelandic saga writing.” Scandia: Journal of Medieval Norse Studies 1, 2018, pp. 69–96.
“To Dream is to Bury: Dreaming of Death in Brennu-Njáls saga.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114(2), 2015, pp. 261–91. http://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.2.0261
“All I Do the Whole Night Through: On the Dreams of Gísli Súrsson.” Scandinavian Studies 84(2), 2012, pp. 143–62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23343107
Conference papers and lectures
“Dreams from our fathers: On multiple inheritance and the Icelandic sagas,” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 (a joint panel hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada and the Canadian Society of Medievalists), University of Calgary, Canada, May 28–June 3, 2016.
“Völsunga dreaming,” in Andrew McGillivray’s ICEL 3320: Old Norse Mythology, University of Manitoba, Canada, November 23, 2015 (guest lecture).
“Dreaming from Antiquity to the Middle Ages,” and “Saga dreams in a Medieval Context” in Andrew McGillivray’s ICEL 3330: Icelandic sagas in translation, University of Manitoba, Canada, February 24, 2015 (guest lecture).
“Dreaming of a better day: On dreams and the shifting social order in medieval Icelandic writing,” International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK, July 7–10, 2014.
“To dream is to bury: fatal dreaming in Brennu-Njáls saga,” International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK, July 1–4, 2013.
“Even a henchman can dream: Dreaming at the margins in Brennu-Njáls saga,” Hugvísindaþing [Congress of the Humanities], University of Iceland, Reykjavík, March 15–16, 2013.
Christopher W. E. Crocker 