A Viking Landscape, Part 6

Professor Jesse Byock of UCLA is the principal investigator of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP), an international research project employing the tools of archaeology, physical anthropology, saga studies, and environmental sciences. MAP works closely with the National Museum of Iceland and the town of Mosfellsbær. The goal of this interdisciplinary project is to construct a picture of human habitation and environmental change in the region of Mosfell in Iceland. Prof. Byock, who is the author of Viking Age Iceland (Penguin Books), Medieval Iceland (UC Press) and Feud in the Icelandic Saga (UC Press) and the translator for Penguin Books of The Saga of the Volsungs, The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, the Prose Edda, and Sagas and Myths of the Northmen, is professor of Old Norse/Icelandic at UCLA's Scandinavian Section and professor of archaeology at UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Prof. Byock directs the Mosfell archaeology together with his colleagues Phillip Walker (UCSB), Jon Erlandson (University of Oregon), Per Holck (University of Oslo), Davide Zori (UCLA), and Magnús Guđmundsson (University of Iceland).

Others who have worked on the Mosfell excavations and research include: Bjarki Bjarnason, Magnús Sigurgeirsson, Rebecca Richman, Sabrina Sholts, Margrét Hallsdóttir, Steve Martin, Anne Engesveen, Ásdís Hermanowicz, Jacqueline Eng, Helgi Orláksson, David Scott, Alan Dickin, Dagfinn Skre, Rhonda Brathurst, Patricia Lambert, Bert Evans, Steinar Kristensen, Agnes Stefansdóttir, Sebastian Wärmländer, Mark Tveskog, Erik Erlandson, Ashley Byock, Jennifer Dillon, Marianna Betti, Guđmundur Ólafsson, Magnus Helqvist, Henry Schwarcz, Stanislav Parfenov, Madonna Moss, Max Farrar, Karen Milek, Sigurjón Dađason, Haraldur Eyjólfsson, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Kaethin Prizer, Melissa Reid, Hilde Fyllingen, Bergsteinn Sigurgeirsson, Brynjar Ólasfsson, Sindri Sigurđarson, and Shawna Rider.

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