Jesse Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An archaeologist and specialist in Old Norse and the Viking Age, he is Professor at UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. In Iceland, he is the Director of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP), excavating a Viking Age valley. The Mosfell excavations include a chieftain's longhouse, Christian and pagan burial sites, a con-version-age church, and a harbor from the first centuries of Iceland's Viking Age settlement. Prof.

Byock also teaches at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in the Department of History and the Programs in Medieval Icelandic and Viking Studies. www.oldnorse.org and www.juleswilliampress.com Jesse Byock's books and translations from Old Norse include: Viking Age Iceland (Penguin), Grettir's Saga (Oxford), The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer (Penguin), The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin), Feud in the Icelandic Saga (UC Press), The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Penguin), Islande des Vikings (Aubier Flammarion) and The Viking Language Series (Jules Williams Press), including Altnordisch 1: Die Sprache der Wikinger, Runen, und isländischen Sagas (available on Amazon.de).