In this episode, Dr. Felix Lummer, lecturer at the University of Iceland, briefly discusses scholarly knowledge of Germanic beliefs before the Viking Age.

DISCLAIMER: THERE ARE IMAGES OF DECEASED PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO.

Dr. Lummer received his PhD from the University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences. His dissertation is titled "Lost in Translation: Adapting Supernatural Concepts from Old French Chivalric Literature into the Old Norse riddarasögur."

Notable publications:

Lummer, Felix. "The Translation of Magic in the Translated

riddarasǫgur," Medium Ævum, 91(2) (2022): 201-235.

Lummer, Felix. "'ek hræðumz ekki þik' – The dvergar in Translated

riddarasǫgur," European Journal of Scandinavian Studies,51(2) (2021b): 335-355. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2020-2022.

For more, please see his Academia.edu page:

https://independent.academia.edu/FelixLummer