OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Despair of Self: Strategies of Seeing and Becoming in Linn Ullmann’sDe urolige	5
Alan Mauritz Swanson and Bertil van Boer, eds. Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century: Dusting Out the Corners. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,	4
Megan E. Hartman.Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon	2
Georg Brandes and Harald Høffding.The Great Debate: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society. Edited and translated by William Banks. Madison: University of Wisconsin Pre	2
Kristin Gjesdal.The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche	2
Reappropriations and Criticism of Finnishness in Tom of Finland, the Film and the Musical	1
Thea R. Strand. A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. Pp. xii + 150.	1
Union eller undergang: Kampen for et forent Skandinavia	1
The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland	1
Between Literature and Pamphlet: Women Writers on Sexual Transactions in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough	1
Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960: The Construction of Jews, Mormons, and Jesuits as Anti-citizens and Enemies of Society	1
Sámi Literature in Norwegian Language Arts Textbooks	1
Facing Planetary Ecocide, Transforming Human-Earth Relations	1
Strindberg’s Representation of Anxiety inThe Father: Between Naturalistic Determinism and Existential Indeterminism	1
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature	1
“Det var en lycklig tid”	0
Amanda Doxtater. Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. Pp. vii + 236.	0
Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity	0
Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid's Solaris korrigert	0
Configurations of Compulsory Care and Alternative Treatments in Beate Grimsrud’sEn dåre friand Linda Boström Knausgård’sOktoberbarn	0
Echoing Retorts in Hárbarðsljóð and Lokasenna	0
Young Women and Disgust in Contemporary Norwegian Comics: A Close Reading of Ane Barstad Solvang's Frykt & medlidenhet	0
Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative	0
Encounters at the Mound in Old Norse Literature: Dialogues between Landscape and Narrative	0
Readings in Times of Crisis: New Interpretations of Stories about the Settlement of Iceland	0

Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Scott MacKenzie.New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 368.	0
Financial Report of the Executive Director for 2021	0
The Sámi World	0
Georg Brandes.Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches	0
Hamsun’sMerker	0
Expressing Suppression	0
Half-Digested Memory	0
Sick Girls and Sick Titles	0
Henning K. Sehmsdorf.Myth and Tradition in Norwegian Literature and Folklife: Essays.Lopez Island, WA: S&S Homestead Press, 2020. Pp. 283.	0
Nizarorustu: A Textual Analysis of the Battle of Niså	0
Lisa E. Bloom.Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic	0
The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Ed. Heather O’Donoghue and Eleanor Parker. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 634.	0
Margaret Clunies Ross.Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022. Pp. xxxviii + 222.	0
The Witch in the Closet: Disney’sFrozenas Adaptation and Its Potential for Queer and Feminist Readings	0
Financial Report of the Executive Director for 2020	0
Corrected and Improved	0
Tim van Gerven.Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770–1919. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii + 388.	0
Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience	0
Literary Gimmicks	0
When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia	0
Imagery, Irony, and Transcendence in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’sThe Queen’s Tiara	0
The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche	0
Torben M. Andersen.Economic Performance in the Nordic World.Aarhus, Denmark, and Madison: Aarhus and Wisconsin University Presses. 2021. Pp. 108;Carsten Jensen.Equality in the	0
Anders Bo Rasmussen.Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870	0
Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature.Edited by Martin Humpál and Helena Brezinova. Studia Philologica Pragensia. Prague: Charles University Karolinum Press, 2022. Pp. 264.	0
The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar	0
Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience. Ed. Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, and Anders V. Munch. New York: Routledge. 2022. Pp. 298. https://doi.org/10.	0
Tobias Hübinette, Catrin Lundström, and Peter Wikström.Race in Sweden: Racism and Antiracism in the World’s First “Colourblind” Nation. Routledge, 2023. Pp. 178.	0
Magnús Pálsson.Gapassipi	0
Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870	0
The Endowing of Askr and Embla, and Its Reverberations in the Poetry of Egill Skallagrímsson	0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon	0
The Role of Customary Law in the Legislative Work of King Magnús lagabætir Hákonarson (1263–1280)	0
Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä.The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences	0
Album Cover Elegies: The Mohammad Cartoons Controversy, Self-Censorship, and Identity: The Case of Jomi Massage’s Skandinaviske Klagesange	0
Imagery, Irony, and Transcendence in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's The Queen's Tiara	0
Sámi Literature in Norwegian Language Arts Textbooks	0
The False King Olaf and His Necklace of Letters	0
Kjetil Fallan.Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. Pp. 368.	0
Ethnogenesis and Stranger-Kings in Old Scandinavian Literature	0
Festering Wounds on Heroic Bodies: Depictions of Leprosy and Infection in theriddarasögurandfornaldarsögur	0
Eric Shane Bryan.Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change	0
The Murder Allegation in Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp	0
*Þórðar saga kakala hin mikla: Reconstructing the Lost Original of a Saga from the Sturlunga Compilation	0
Reappropriations and Criticism of Finnishness inTom of Finland, the Film and the Musical	0
Ivan Z. Sørensen.Blixens humor	0
Adelns historia i Finland.Edited by Janne Haikari, Marko Hakanen, Anu Lahtinen, and Alex Snellman. Helsinki: Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2023. Pp. 443.	0
Herman Bang.Some Would Call This Living	0
Some Would Call This Living	0
A History of Danish Cinema	0

Men Who Brew: Masculinity and the Production of Drink in Medieval Icelandic Literature	0
Þistil, mistil, kistil: Plants of Death, Rebirth, and Magic in Medieval Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions	0
Unhappy Texts?	0
The Aspiring Author Meets the Metropolis	0
Libertine Love as a Proto-Romantic Mating Ideology in Fredmans epistlar	0
Anne Grydehøj.Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fic tion: Citizenship, Gender and Ethnicity	0
Bishops in Early Iceland	0
Echoing Retorts inHárbarðsljóðandLokasenna	0
Report of the President for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: Citizenship, Gender and Ethnicity	0
A Monument with a Social Message	0
The Sámi World. Ed. Sanna Valkonen, Áile Aikio, Saara Alakorva, and Sigga-Marja Magga. London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 600.	0
Iselin as Object of Desire in Knut Hamsun’sPanandVictoria	0
Financial Report for CY 2022	0
The Battle Of Stamford Bridge	0
Frode Ulvund.Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960: The Construction of Jews, Mormons, and Jesuits as Anti-citizens and Enemies of Society	0
Skinner, Ryan Thomas.Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country	0
Financial Report of the Executive Director for 2020	0
Kate Heslop.Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 296.	0
Norway and Iceland	0
A History of Danish Cinema	0
Financial Report of the Executive Director for 2021	0
Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches	0
Nordic Travels	0
Claus Elholm Andersen. Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 243.	0
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change	0
Poetic Resistance: Girls’ Autograph Albums during World War II in Norway	0
Scandinavian Exceptionalisms: Culture, Society, Discourse	0
Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory	0
Lynn R. Wilkinson.Laughter and Civility: The Theater of Emma Gad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Pp. 318.	0
Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century	0
Liv Becomes an Author: On Literary Creativity and Strategic Postponement in Liv Køltzow’s “Øyet i treet”	0
Ryder Patzuk-Russell.The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland	0
Úlfar Bragason.Reykjaholt Revisited: Representing Snorri in Sturla Þórðarson’s	0
L. W. Conolly, ed.A Doll’s House: Henrik Ibsen. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2024. Pp. 312.	0
Men in Arms	0
Despair of Self: Strategies of Seeing and Becoming in Linn Ullmann'sDe urolige	0
Audiences and Ideological Work in the “Dream Factory”: Halldór Laxness and Cinematic Modernity	0
The History of Things in Ralf Andtbacka'sWunderkammer	0
Knausgård’s Scandalous “Labia”	0
Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn'sIbsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Worksand Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies	0
Georg Brandes’Main Currents:A Companion.Edited by Jens Bjerring-Hansen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard.Sorø, Denmark: U Press, 2023. Pp. 327.	0
Combining Qualitative and Computational Approaches for Literary Analysis of Finnish Novels	0
Saxo Grammaticus's Account of the Viking Age Site on the Danish Island of Hjarnø in Gesta Danorum	0
Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea as Intertext in Isak Dinesen’s “The Dreaming Child”	0
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions	0
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Hope in the Age of Dystopia: The Ghost in the Machine in Øyvind Rimbereid’sSolaris korrigert	0
Bridging East And West	0
Michael A. Livingston.Dreamworld or Dystopia?: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century	0
Reykjaholt Revisited: Representing Snorri in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga	0
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Anne-Marie Foltz. Survival Skills: Norway, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust: A Family Story. New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020. Pp. 260.	0
Nana Osei-Kofi. AfroSwedish Places of Belonging. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Pp. 124.	0
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Henrik Ibsen and Conspiracy Thinking: The Case of Peer Gynt	0
Bishops in Early Iceland	0
Sámi Research in Transition: Knowledge, Politics and Social Change. Ed. Laura Junka-Aikio, Jukka Nyssönen, and Veli-Pekka Lehtola. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 238.	0
Benjamin Bigelow.Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. Pp. 206.	0
Litteratur som erfaring: Modernisme og modernitet fra Obstfelder til Kjærstad	0
The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics	0
“Unable to Defend Him”: Conflicting Views of Female Violence in Swedish Medieval Law	0
Approaching Texts of Not-Quiteness: Reading Race, Whiteness, and In/Visibility in Nordic Culture	0
Barbara Sjoholm.From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Pp. 352.	0
Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation	0
Like Snow in the Sun? The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective. Ed. Peter Thaler. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xiv + 231.	0
Report of the President for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Siân Elizabeth Grønlie. The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2024. Pp. ix + 300.	0
Anna Ovaska.Shattering Minds: Experiences of Mental Illness in Modernist Finnish Literature. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society/SKS, 2023. Pp. 265.	0
Anne Gjelsvik. ReFocus: The Films of Joachim Trier. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp. ix + 180.	0
Swedish Migration to Northern Argentina	0
A Cultural Revolution	0
How Icelandic Is French Law? A Few Remarks about the Discovery and Usage of Icelandic Antiquities in French Legal Historiography during the Nineteenth Century	0
Memory of the Sea	0
Climate Change and Denial in Brit Bildøen’sSju dagar i august	0
The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian	0
Ellen Rees.Den populærkulturelle Ibsen: En studie i nyere norsk resepsjon. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2023. Pp. 370.	0
Reading Animal-Human Relations: Sámr and Gunnarr inNjáls saga	0
Tami Navarro.Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. Pp. 242.	0
*Þórðar saga kakala hin mikla: Reconstructing the Lost Original of a Saga from the Sturlunga Compilation	0

Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory	0
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions	0
The Trouble with Mediated Memories	0
Strindberg's Representation of Anxiety in The Father: Between Naturalistic Determinism and Existential Indeterminism	0
Like Snow in the Sun? The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective	0
The Endowing of Askr and Embla, and Its Reverberations in the Poetry of Egill Skallagrímsson	0
Markus Floris Christensen. Anxiety in Modern Scandinavian Literature: August Strindberg, Inger Christensen, Karl Ove Knausgård. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 224.	0
A Poetics of the Insignificant	0
Negotiations of Ethnifying Distinctions and Cultural Capital in the Swedish Literary Field	0
From Sinner to Saint: Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir,Laxdæla saga, and the Lives of Women Penitents	0
Jan Olsson.The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph: From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Pp. 312.	0
A Ballad and a Movie: Scandinavian TSB B21 and Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring	0
The Physical Expression of Emotional Suffering in Hávaràar saga Ísfirðings	0
Reading Animal-Human Relations: Sámr and Gunnarr inNjáls saga	0
Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations	0
Peace and Quiet (Olla Rauhassa) at the Finnish Summer Cottage	0
Festering Wounds on Heroic Bodies: Depictions of Leprosy and Infection in theriddarasögurandfornaldarsögur	0
Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology: Myth and Environment in Early Iceland	0
Þistil,mistil,kistil: Plants of Death, Rebirth, and Magic in Medieval Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions	0
Sovereignty, Exploration, and Anglo-Danish Relations	0
Robert W. Rix. The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and its Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 414.	0
Mathias Nordvig.Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology: Myth and Environment in Early Iceland	0
How Icelandic Is French Law? A Few Remarks about the Discovery and Usage of Icelandic Antiquities in French Legal Historiography during the Nineteenth Century	0
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic	0
Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country	0
Men Who Brew: Masculinity and the Production of Drink in Medieval Icelandic Literature	0
Corrected and Improved: The Motivation behind the Printing of the Norwegian Lawbook of 1604	0
Approaching Texts of Not-Quiteness	0
Pelle Dragsted. Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. Trans. William Banks. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. Pp. 230.	0
Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity	0
August Strindberg.The Occult Diary: Paris 1896–Stockholm 1908. Edited by Per Stam, Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, and Gunnel Engwall. Translated by Karin Petherick. Stockholm: Stockholm Univ	0
The Art of Self-Defense	0
Young Women and Disgust in Contemporary Norwegian Comics: A Close Reading of Ane Barstad Solvang’sFrykt&medlidenhet	0
The False King Olaf and His Necklace of Letters	0
Readings in Times of Crisis: New Interpretations of Stories about the Settlement of Iceland	0
The Unique Conception of “Homeland” in Danish	0
The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World	0
A Ballad and a Movie: Scandinavian TSB B21 and Ingmar Bergman’sThe Virgin Spring	0
When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia	0
Between Literature and Pamphlet	0
Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us about World Politics	0
From Sinner to Saint: Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir,Laxdæla saga, and the Lives of Women Penitents	0
Iselin as Object of Desire in Knut Hamsun's Pan and Victoria	0
The Nightmare Island: Representations of St. Barthélemy in Swedish Novels	0
Gapassipi	0
Introduction	0
Blixens humor	0
Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations	0
The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences	0
Jennifer Eastman Attebery.As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. xvii + 218.	0
“Unable to Defend Him”: Conflicting Views of Female Violence in Swedish Medieval Law	0
Rasmus Glenthøj and Morten Nordhagen Ottosen.Union eller undergang: Kampen for et forent Skandinavia	0
Investigating the Lutheran Roots of Social Democracy inIngeborg Holm	0
The “Troll-Girl Revelation” Motif: Female Infantile Sexuality and Pedophilia in Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra and Jökuls þáttr Búasonar	0
The Witch in the Closet: Disney's Frozen as Adaptation and Its Potential for Queer and Feminist Readings	0
The Nightmare Island: Representations of St. Barthélemy in Swedish Novels	0
A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling	0
Cian Duffy and Robert W. Rix, eds.Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation	0
Robert A. Saunders.Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us about World Politics	0
Kirsi Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen.Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii + 319.	0
The History of Things in Ralf Andtbacka’sWunderkammer	0
Scandinavian Exceptionalisms: Culture, Society, Discourse	0
The End of the Commonwealth	0
The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar. Trans. Margaret Cormack, with an Introduction by Peter Foote. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021. Pp. 224.	0
Saxo Grammaticus’s Account of the Viking Age Site on the Danish Island of Hjarnø inGesta Danorum	0
The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph: From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices	0
Eating Hearts and Biting Noses	0
Nizarorustu: A Textual Analysis of the Battle of Niså	0
Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn’sIbsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Worksand Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies	0
Henrik Ibsen and Conspiracy Thinking: The Case ofPeer Gynt	0
Stephen A. Mitchell.Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. xxi + 333.	0
Peder Anker.The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World	0
Taget på husetorhusets tag	0
Report of the President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study	0
Nationalism, Philology, and Gre(e)nland	0
The Soundscape of Jakob Wegelius'sThe Murderer's Ape	0
Financial Report for CY 2022	0
Nordic Travels	0
Søren Blak Hjortshøj.Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2021. Pp. 5 + 287.	0
Ykkar einlæg: Bréf frá berklahælum. Ed. Úlfar Bragason. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2024. Pp. 362.	0
Poetic Resistance: Girls’ Autograph Albums during World War II in Norway	0