Snorri Sturluson, "Ólafs saga helga" from "Heimskringla" (ca. 1230)

Ármann Jakobsson is Professor of Early Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland and is currently involved with the “Disability Before Disability” research project that focuses on medieval and early modern attitudes towards disability. He is interested in categorisation in general and his done work on kingship, age, social classes and the supernatural. Among his books are A Sense of Belonging: Morkinskinna and Icelandic Identity c. 1220, The Viking Collection 22 (2014); The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North (punctum books, 2017); and The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas, co-edited with Sverrir Jakobsson (2017).