Tarrin Wills
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tarrin Wills is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 6. Echoes in a cave: Additional rhyme and alliteration in the poetry of
Bergbúa þáttr
From Carving Runestones to Digitizing Skaldic Poetry: Studies in Germanic philology and historical linguistics, Bolter, David, Erin Noelliste, Christopher D. Sapp and Lane Sorensen (eds.), pp. 77–95 | Chapter
The short Icelandic narrative work
Bergbúa þáttr
contains a 12-stanza poem often given the modern title
Hallmundarkviða
. This poem appears to describe volcanic phenomena from the point of view of a supernatural being that inhabits a cave in the mountains. It is… read more
2016 The thirteenth-century runic revival in Denmark and Iceland Grammarians, Skalds and Rune Carvers II, Schulte, Michael and Robert Nedoma (eds.), pp. 114–129 | Article
While in the High Middle Ages runic literacy appears to have been very much alive in urban centres such as Bergen, interest in runes appears to have been of a different nature in learned circles and in other parts of the Scandinavian world which had adopted widespread textual production of the… read more