Irmeli Valtonen

PhD
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E-mail: irmeli.valtonen(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

Anglo-Saxon England, Viking Age northern Europe, ancient and medieval geography, textual interpretation.

Relevent recent publications

‘On Descriptions and Perceptions of the North in Ancient and Early Medieval Geography’. NOWELE 56/57 (2009), 53–87.

‘Anglosaksien Pohjola. Ottar, Alfred ja Porthan sen kuvaajina ja tulkitsijoina’. Auraica 2 (2009), 13–30.

‘The North in the Old English Orosius’. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 109:3 (2008), 380–4.

The North in the Old English Orosius. A Geographical Narrative in Context. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki LXXIII (Helsinki, 2008).
For contents and availability, click here.
For reviews, see, e.g. Speculum 84:4 (2009), Tieteessä tapahtuu 1/2009, Hiidenkivi 5/2008, Auraica 1 (2008), Jnl of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2009.

‘Who Were the Cwenas?’, and ‘Who Were the Finnas?’, in Bately, Janet and Anton Englert, eds., Ohthere’s Voyages. A Late 9th-century Account of Voyages along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and Its Cultural Context. Maritime Culture of the North 1 (Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum, 2007), 106–9.
For more information, click here.
For reviews, see, e.g. International Journal of Maritime History XX:1 (2008), The Heroic Age 12 (2009).

‘Päällikkö Ottarin kuvaus Pohjolasta’. TIEDE 2002:7, 48–53.
For online version without illustrations at TIEDE.fi, click here.

Forthcoming

Article ‘Pohjoinen ääri anglosaksien maantieteessä’.

MA thesis online: An Interpretation of the Description of Northernmost Europe in the Old English Orosius.