John Lindow (1946) es un catedrático de la Universidad de California en Berkeley especializado en estudios escandinavos y folclore medieval.
Tras terminar su doctorado, en 1972, en lenguas y literatura germanas en la Universidad Harvard, comenzó a enseñar en Berkeley en 1978. Fue nombrado académico de la Real Academia Gustave Adolphe en 1977.[1]
- Lindow, John (1978) Swedish legends and folktales, Berkeley : University of California Press[3]
- Lindow, John (1997) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, Helsinki : Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica[4]
- "Akkerisfrakki: Traditions Concerning Óláfr Tryggvason and Hallfreddr Óttarsson vandraskáld and the Problem of the Conversion." J. of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2007): 64-80.
- "Poets and Poetry in Myth and Life: The Case of Bragi." In: Old Norse Religion In Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes And Interactions: An International Conference in Lund, Sweden June 3-7, 2004. Vägar till Midagård, 8. Ed. Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharine Raudvere (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006), 21-25.
- "Cultures in Contact." Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. The Viking Collection, v. 14. (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003), 89-109.
- "Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga Saga." Myth: A New Symposium, ed. Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Blomington & Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2002), 107-123.
- "The Tears of the Gods: A Note on the Death of Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology." J. of English & Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 155-169.
- "Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints." Scandinavian Studies 73 (2001): 437-456
- ↑ Curriculum vitae Archivado el 11 de julio de 2010 en Wayback Machine., 2007, visto 10 de enero de 2011.
- ↑ Barnes, Michael (1978) Review of Comitatus, Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary × John Lindow (A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1972), Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, julio de 1978, v. 53, no. 3, p. 597-600
- ↑ Simpson, Jacqueline (1979) Review of Swedish Legends and Folktales by John Lindow, Folklore, v. 90, no. 2, p. 244
- ↑ Hugus, Frank (1999) (Reviewed of) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, × John Lindow, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, v. 74, No. 2 (abril) p. 450-452
- ↑ Simpson, Jacqueline (2003) Review of Handbook of Norse Mythology, Folklore, agosto de 2003, v. 114, no. 2, p. 275-276