Merrill Kaplan

Merrill Kaplan specializes in Old Norse-Icelandic myth and literature, supernatural legend and folk belief, and the places these categories intersect.

Articles on: Irruptions of the past and the supernatural in Icelandic sagas; Out-Thoring Thor in the Great Saga of Olaf Tryggvason; Ibsen's Dramatic Realism and the publication of folklore collections; The Icelandic reception of Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland.

Major courses taught:

• Nordic Mythology
• The Medieval Icelandic Saga
• Legend
• Myth
• Old Norse-Icelandic Language
• Folklore Genres