About the Author

Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, where he is also affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology, Classics, Medieval Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. He has published numerous books with the University of Chicago Press, most recently Gods and Demons. He lives in Chicago.

Reviews

"Lincoln, a past master of comparative mythology and religion, of semiotics and various expressions of structuralism, here applies his unrivaled skills to a new field, the colorful story of the founding of the Norwegian state in the ninth century. The result is a book that will reshape parts of Old Norse-Icelandic studies and become a classic text in that discipline, but Between History and Myth is so well crafted that it will give pleasure to any reader, not only to academic specialists." (Joseph Harris, Harvard University)"