Contributors
At Hyldyr, we’re fortunate to work with a variety of talented and passionate scholars and artists. Here we list Hyldyr contributors in alphabetical order and provide links to where you can find more from them.
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Writers, translators, & authors
Alessia Bauer
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France
Alessia Bauer is a philologist and professor of Scandinavian Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). Bauer has been an associated member of the project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) at the research unit Göttingen since 2019.
Katherine Beard
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Katherine Beard is an Oxford-based scholar of Old Norse literature and religion, holding a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Her research explores myth, material culture, and religious imagination in the pre-modern North, with particular attention to symbolism and recurring motifs. She also holds an MA in Old Nordic Religion from the University of Iceland and created the Eitri platform (eitridb.com) for the analysis of Þórr’s hammer amulets. Additionally, she has a background in visual media, holding an MA in Graphic Communications Management and Technology from New York University, which informs her interdisciplinary and visually attentive approach to scholarship.
Danielle Cudmore
Halmstad University,
Halmstad, Sweden
Danielle Cudmore was raised by wolves in Massachusetts, USA and received her PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University. She now teaches English at Halmstad University and has authored numerous folklore and linguistics-related papers.
Lauren E. Fountain
Olympia, Washington state, USA
Hyldyr’s chief editor, Lauren E. Fountain is an editor, writer, and translator based in Olympia, WA. Her background involves a focus on Slavic and Germanic linguistics and folklore and a long history of content management. From ideation to execution and beyond, Fountain has had a hand in every single Hyldyr publication.
Sara Bonadea George
Uppsala, Sweden
Sara Bonadea George received an MA in European Ethnology with Folkloristics from Uppsala University. She also studied herbalism at Biskops Arnö; an herb-focused education where historical perspectives are paramount. In 2023, her book Blodets blomma: Växter i svensk folktro, on plants in Swedish folklore, was published in Sweden by Gidlunds förlag, and an English language edition was released by Hexen Press (2024).
Joseph S. Hopkins
Olympia, Washington state, USA
Joseph S. Hopkins is a writer, editor, and researcher. Hyldyr’s founder, director, and author of numerous resources and articles in the realm of folklore studies and linguistics, Hopkins also founded Mimisbrunnr.info, a resource that developed out of a reading group at the University of Georgia's Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and has edited for the University of Helsinki’s Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter for over a decade. Readers can find peer-reviewed articles authored by Hopkins here.
Leszek Gardeła
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Leszek Gardeła is an archaeologist focused on Scandinavia and the Slavic world in the Viking Age. Gardeła holds a Habilitation from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, a PhD in archaeology from the University of Aberdeen, and an MA from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Kári Pálsson
Reykjavík, Iceland
Kári Pálsson is a folklorist, antiquarian, and musician. Kári specializes in Old Icelandic literature, pre-Christian Religions of the North, and Icelandic folk belief. He holds an MA in Old Norse Religion from the University of Iceland.
John Lindow
University of California, Berkeley
A core influence on the development of Hyldyr, academic John Lindow is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles on ancient Scandinavian topics, including Old Norse Mythology (2021, Oxford University Press).
Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran
Newfoundland, Canada
Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran is a scholar, author, and musician who holds a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, and her podcast radio drama “The Belt and the Necklace,” was recently produced by the Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa. From 2019-2023, MacCath-Moran’s Folklore & Fiction podcast brought the principles of folkloristics to the storytelling craft, and her handbook for writers titled The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore (upcoming) expands on this work.
Bernard Mees
Melbourne, Australia
Bernard Mees taught history, linguistics, and business at the University of Melbourne, Australia, RMIT University, Australia and the University of Tasmania, Australia. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His most recent books are The English Language Before England (2023) and King Arthur and the Languages of Britain (2025). He is a member of the editorial board of NOWELE. Readers can find his blog The Age of Arthur here.
Mathias Nordvig
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Mathias Nordvig is an educator, author, and podcaster based outside of Boulder, Colorado. Since 2015, Nordvig has taught Old Norse and Arctic-related subjects at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a PhD in Nordic Mythology, operates the Sacred Flame Podcast, and has authored numerous publications.
Lyonel Perabo
Finby, Åland
Lyonel Perabo is a scholar of Old Norse religion and literature, journalist, translator of folklore, and museum guide. Born in France but based in Scandinavia for most of his adult life, he obtained an MA in Old Norse Religion from the University of Iceland in 2016. He is currently researching the transmission, recension, and translation of the Prose Edda as part of a PhD project in Nordic-Germanic studies undertaken via the Sorbonne Université of Paris.
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Rune Hjarnø Ramussen is a scholar best known today for his Nordic Animism project, which explores the topic of animism in a historic Northern European context. Rasmussen can often be found walking around Copenhagen talking into a camera and posing with fine statuary.
Devon Rawlings
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Devon Rawlings is a performer, writer, and clothing maker. Her passion for researching historical textiles and folk customs takes shape in her living history hobby as well as creating immersive events at community spaces like Hedgerow Herb Co in Porland, Oregon. She designs clothing based on historical garments through the project Baseborn.
Alexander Sager
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Alexander Sager is Associate Professor of German at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA.
Giorgia Sottotetti
National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
A passionate speaker at the National Museum of Iceland, Giorgia Sottotetti is an archaeologist who holds an MA in Viking and Old Norse Medieval Studies obtained at the University of Iceland. Her main area of research lies in material culture, the archaeology of religion and ritual, Old Norse Religion(s), and multidisciplinary approaches.
Eirik Storesund
Troll Cat Press, Delaware Valley, Delaware, USA
Eirik Storesund is a writer, artist, and scholar of Old Norse. He is the host and creator of the Brute Norse podcast, where he “seeks to celebrate the weirder aspects of Scandinavian cultural heritage, and instill upon his audience a general sense of chronological confusion”. Storesund also runs the independent imprint Troll Cat Press to serve as the physical outlet for his efforts to “bring Nordic obscurity to an international audience”.
Haukur Þorgeirsson
Árni Magnússon Institute, Reykjavík, Iceland
Haukur Þorgeirsson is an Icelandic research professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic studies. He completed his PhD at the University of Iceland in 2013 and has been a faculty member at the Árni Magnússon Institute since 2014. Readers can find many of his peer-reviewed publications at his website here.
Artists
Jacqui Alberts Lund
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jacqui Alberts Lund is a tattooist and visual artist specializing in pre-Christian Scandinavian art-inspired styles. Alberts Lund operates Wovnwyrm and Idisi (Denmark), as well as Thrymskapr with Jacob Hee Lund of Heilung and various other musical projects.
Kevin Alexandrowicz
Stirling, Scotland
Kevin Alexandrowicz is a multimedia artist whose art focuses on the natural world and how people relate to the past and present. Often operating under the name Archaic Growth, Alexandrowicz enjoys blending every day craft and fine art and draws inspiration from landscapes, the historical record, and folklore, especially traditional crafts.
Rim Baudey
Beaune, France
Rim Baudey is an artist who draws inspiration from topics including folklore, history, and nature.
Hrafnhildur Inga Guðjónsdóttir
Reykjavík, Iceland
Hrafnhildur Inga Guðjónsdóttir is an artist, tattooist (Habba Nero Tattoo), and organizer of the Icelandic Sorcery Festival.
Sara Bøgh
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sara Bøgh is an illustrator based in Denmark inspired especially by folklore topics.
Sylvia & Tristan Eden
(Leodrune)
Leodrune Press, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sylvia and Tristan Eden are artists living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. They co-operate Leodrune Press, through which they release their writings on magic and mysticism-related topics. The duo work together to illustrate traditional pen-and-ink designs as Leodrune.
Niall Grant
England
Niall Grant is an illustrator who specializes in combining Art Nouveau & Golden Age storybook illustration. His depiction of the Elder Tree Lady can be found in various Hyldyr publications.
Jill Lydon
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jill Lydon is an illustrator and risograph artist living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her interests include cursed princesses, medieval castles, and intricate florals.
Isabella Mazzanti
Roma, Italy
Isabella Mazzanti is an illustrator based in Roma, Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and is art director and founding partner of the IDEA Academy.
Katie Metcalfe
England
Katie Metcalfe is a writer, poet, and self-taught photographer from the north of England. Her work “explores the northernmost parts of our world from all conceivable angles, though typically through a dark lens”. Katie maintains a presence on Instagram and her work can be accessed through her website.
Oksana Mychka-Maylone
Seattle, Washington state, USA
Oksana Mychka-Maylone is an artist with a passion for old folklore, chthonic subjects, and nature. Based in the Seattle, Washington state area.
Anette Pirso
Estonia
Anette Pirso is a self-taught illustrator with a focus on goddess and divine feminine topics.
Teja Jamilla
Bridgend, South Wales
Teja Jamilla is an artist from Birdgend, South Wales. She finds inspiration in the cycles of life and death within nature and the mossy woodlands of her home town. Jamilla is also a musician, recording for a variety of doom folk and atmospheric black metal projects.
The Saxon Storyteller
England, United Kingdom
The Saxon Storyteller is an illustrator who focuses primarily on historic Anglo-Saxon, Viking Age, and broader folklore topics and combines them with American Traditional tattoo styles and art forms found in the Early Medieval periods.
Anneke Wilder
Olympia, Washington state, USA
Anneke Wilder is an artist who draws from her background as a scientific illustrator and biologist.