杏吧原创

Academic Responsibilities

Teaching on the Vikings in the Landscape: Understanding Old Norse Place-names module

MRes, MLitt dissertation and PhD supervision.

External Memberships

 

(since 1997)

, Princeton (2017-18)

Editor of the Journal (Brepols) 
General Editor of the Series  (Brepols)
General Editor Medieval Nordic Laws (a subseries to ) (Routledge)
Member of the Editorial Board of  (Edinburgh University Press)

Publications

 Selected Publications

Sockenbildning och sockennamn. Studier i 盲ldre territoriell indelning i Norden. [Parish-formation and Parish-names. Studies in early territorial division in Scandinavia.] (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 57.) Uppsala 1990. [Doctoral thesis.]

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淐ult sites in northern Sweden鈥�. Old Norse and Finnish religions and cultic place-names. (Scripta instituti Donneriani Aboensis XIII.) 脜bo 1990.

H盲lsinglands 盲ldsta skattel盲ngd. Hj盲lpskattel盲ngden 鈥滸盲rder och hj盲lper鈥� fr氓n 氓r 1535. Med inledning och kommentarer utg. av Stefan Brink. (Skrifter utg. genom Ortnamnsarkivet i Uppsala. Ser. C. K盲llskrifter 2.) Uppsala 1994.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淗ome. The term and the concept as seen from a linguistic and settlement-historical point of view鈥�, The Concept of Home: An Interdisciplinary View, ed. C. N. Benjamin & D. Stea. London, New York & Sydney 1995.

J盲mtlands kristnande [The Christianization of the province of J盲mtland], ed. Stefan Brink. (Projektet Sveriges kristnande. Publikationer 4.) Uppsala 1996.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淧olitical and Social Structures in Early Scandinavia. A Settlement-historical Pre-study of the Central Place鈥�. Tor. Journal of Archaeology 28 (1996).

鈥淔orsaringen 鈥� Nordens 盲ldsta lagbud鈥�. Femtende tv忙rfaglige Vikingesymposium. Aarhus Universitet 1996, ed. E. Roesdahl & P. Meulengracht S酶rensen. 脜rhus 1996.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淧olitical and social structures in early Scandinavia 2. Aspects of space and territoriality 鈥� the settlement district鈥�, Tor. Journal of Archaeology 29 (1997).

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淣ames and Naming of Slaves鈥�. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery I & II. Gen. ed. J. P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: Cal. 1997.

鈥淭he formation of the Scandinavian parish, with some remarks regarding the English impact on the process鈥�. The Community, the Family and the Saint. Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe, ed. J. Hill & M. Swan. (International Medieval Research 4.) Brepols: Turnhout 1998.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. Settlement and Landscape, ed. Ch. Fabech & J. Ringtved. 脜rhus 1999.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 15 (2000) pp. 274鈥�278.

鈥�.鈥� Kontinuit盲ten und Br眉che in der Religionsgeschichte. Ed. M. Stausberg. (Erg盲nzungsb盲nde zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 31.) Berlin & New York: de Gruyter 2001.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淪lavery in Scandinavia, as reflected in names, runes and sagas鈥�. New Perspectives on Slavery. Ed. T. Iversen. Trondheim.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. The Nordic Languages. Ed. O. Bandle. (HSK 鈥� Handb眉cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft.) de Gruyter: Berlin & New York 2002.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. The Nordic Languages. Ed. O. Bandle. (HSK 鈥� Handb眉cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft.) de Gruyter: Berlin & New York 2002.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. The Nordic Languages. Ed. O. Bandle. (HSK 鈥� Handb眉cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft.) de Gruyter: Berlin & New York 2002.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century, ed. J. Jesch. San Marino: CIRSS 2003.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淟egal Assemblies and Judicial Structure in Early Scandinavia.鈥� Political assemblies in the earlier Middle Ages. Ed. P. Barnwell & M. Mostert. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages.) Turhout: Brepols.

Namenwelten. S. Brink, L. Elmevik & A. van Nahl. (Erg盲nzungsband zum Reallexikon der germanische Altertumskunde), Berlin & New York: de Gruyter 2004

Mytologiska rum och eskatologiska f枚rest盲llningar i det vikingatida Norden鈥�. Ordning mot kaos. Studier av nordisk f枚rkristen kosmologi. Ed. A. Andr茅n et al.  (V盲gar till Midg氓rd 4.) Lund: Nordic Academic Press.

Some New Perspectives on the Christianization of Scandinavia and the Organisation of the Early Church. Scandinavia and Europe. Ed. K. Holman & E. Adams. (Texts and Cultures in Northern Europe 4.) Turnhout: Brepols.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淟egal Assembly Sites in Early Scandinavia鈥�. , ed. Aliki Pantos & Sarah Semple. Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��.&苍产蝉辫; Literacy in medieval and Early Modern Scandinavian culture, ed. P. Hermann.  (Viking Collection 16.) Odense 2005.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淪ome aspects on the Christianization in Sweden and early Church organization鈥�. Church Centres. Church Centres in Iceland from the 11th to the 13th Century and their Parallells in other Countries, ed. H. Thorl谩ksson. (Snorrastofa. Rit 2.) Reykjav铆k.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��. Ohthere's voyages: a late 9th-century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context, ed. Janet Bately and Anton Eglert. (Maritime Culture of the North 1.) Roskilde 2007.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淪k铆ringssalr, Kaupang, Tj酶lling 鈥� the Toponymic Evidence鈥�. Kaupang in Skiringssal. Ed. Dagfinn Skre. (Norske Oldfunn 22.) 脜rhus: 脜rhus University Press  2007.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��, Old Norse world. Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross, ed. J. Quinn et al. (Medieval texts and cultures in northern Europe 18), Turnhout: Brepols 2007.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淭he Kingdom of Sweden鈥� (together with Nils Blomkvist and Thomas Lindkvist), Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy. Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200, ed. N. Berend, Cambridge: CUP 2007.

鈥溾��, Facets of Archaeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday (Oslo Archaeological Series vol. 10), Oslo: Unipub 2008.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��, Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe, ed. P. Geary et al. (Cursor Mundi 5) (Brepols 2008).

(The Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture in Northern Studies 2005.) London: Viking Society 2008.

, ed. Stefan Brink (in collaboration with Neil Price), (Routledge World Series), London & New York: Routledge 2008.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淧lace Names in Scandinavia鈥�, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Robert E. Bjork. Oxford: OUP 2010.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淓arly Ecclesiastical Organization of Scandinavia, especially Sweden鈥�, in England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947), edited by David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, and Hannah Williams (Studies in the Early Middle Ages37), Turnhout: Brepols 2010.

鈥淗盲lsingelagens st盲llning mellan v盲st och syd, och mellan kung, kyrka och lokala traditioner鈥�, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens 脜rsbok 2010.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淥ral Fragments in The Earliest Old-Swedish Laws?鈥�, in Medieval Legal Process: Physical, Spoken and Written Performance in the Middle Ages, ed. by Marco Mostert & Paul S. Barnwell (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 19), Turnhout: Brepols 2011.163.鈥�

&苍产蝉辫;鈥�)鈥�, The Gudme/Gudhem Phenomenon. Papers presented at a workshop organized by the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig, April 26th and 27th, 2010, ed. by Oliver Grimm & Alexandra Pesch (Schriften des Arch盲ologischen Landesmuseums Erg盲nzungsreihe Band 6), Neum眉nster: Wachholtz 2011.

鈥� (Leiden & Boston: Brill 2009), in Early Medieval Europe 19(3) 2011.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥淢ediality and Usage of Medieval Laws: the Case of the H盲lsinge Law鈥�, Liber Amicorum Ditlev Tamm. Law, History and Culture, ed. by P. Andersen et al., Copenhagen: Dj枚f Publ. 2011. [Note: Mistake in title of the proof - medical for medieval!]

Vikingarnas slavar ['Viking Slavery'; book]. Atlantis f枚rlag: Stockholm (2012). Paperback in 2018.

鈥滵e nordiska spr氓kens p氓verkan p氓 ortnamnsskicket i Storbritannien鈥�, in Svenskans beskrivning 32. F枚rhandlingar vid trettioandra sammankomsten f枚r svenskans beskrivning, ed. by B. Bihl et al. (University of Karlstad: Karlstad 2013), pp. 38-51.

&苍产蝉辫;鈥� Historical Research vol. 86 (nr 233): 432-42.

Sacred Sites and Holy Places. Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape Through Time and Space, ed. by S. Walaker Nordeide and S. Brink (Studies in Early Middle Ages 11) (Brepols 2013).

鈥溾��, in Sacred Sites and Holy Places. Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape Through Time and Space, ed. by S. Walaker Nordeide and S. Brink (Studies in Early Middle Ages 11) (Brepols 2013), pp. 33-51.

鈥淓arly Ecclesiastical Organization of Scandinavia, especially Sweden鈥�, in  , ed. by K. Salonen, K. Villads Jensen and T. J酶rgensen (Acta Scandinavica 1) (Brepols 2013), pp. 23-39.

鈥淒ie Christianisierung Skandinaviens鈥�, in Credo. Christianisierung Europas in Mittelalter, vol. 1. Ed. by Ch. Stiegemann, M. Kroker & W. Walter (Petersberg: Imhof 2013), pp. 250-60.

, ed. by Stefan Brink and Lisa Collinson (Acta Scandinavica 3) (Brepols 2014).

鈥溾��, in New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia, ed. by Stefan Brink and Lisa Collinson (Acta Scandinavia 3) (Brepols 2014), pp. 37-56.

鈥�Minnunga m忙n 鈥� The Usage of Old Knowledgeable Men in Legal Cases鈥�, in . Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture, ed. by Hermann, Mitchell and Arnorsdottir (Acta Scandinavica 4) (Brepols 2014), pp. 197-210.鈥�

鈥淩eading Cult and Mythology in Society and Landscape: The Toponymic Evidence鈥�, in Nordic Mythologies: interpretations, intersections, and institutions, ed. T. Tangherlini (Berkeley: North Pinehurst Press 2014), pp. 157-72.鈥�

鈥溾��, in The power of the book : medial approaches to medieval Nordic legal manuscripts, ed. L. Rohrbach (Berliner Beitr盲ge zur Skandinavistik 19) (Berlin: Humbolt Universit盲t 2014), pp. 157-62.鈥�

鈥滶arly Law in the North鈥�, Questio Insularis 16 (Cambridge 2015): 1-15.鈥�

鈥淭ransferred Names and Analogy in Name-formation鈥�, in The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, ed. C. Hough (Oxford UP 2016), pp. 158-66.

鈥溾��, in , ed. J. Barrett & S. J. Gibbon (The Society for medieval Archaeology. Monograph 37) (Leeds: Maney 2015), pp. 88-98.

鈥滸esellschaft und Kultur鈥�, in Wikinger!, ed. M. Helmbrecht (Rosenheim: Koehler im Maximilian Verlag GmbH & Co 2016), pp. 78-89.

Stefan Brink (Aberdeen), and John Lindow (Berkeley), 鈥楶lace Names in Eddic Poetry鈥�, in A Handbook in Eddic Poetry. Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia, ed. C. Larrington et al. (Cambridge University Press 2015) (pp. 173-89)

鈥淎valdsnes, Kormt and Rogaland. A Toponymy and Landscape Survey鈥�, in Avaldsnes A Sea-King鈥檚 Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia, ed. by Dagfinn Skre (Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Erg盲nzungsband 1049 (Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 665-86.

鈥淟aw, Society and Landscape in Early Scandinavia鈥�, in Comparative Law and Anthropology, ed. by James A. R. Nafziger (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Series) (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), pp. 319-37.

鈥漀ationernas och regionernas 氓terkomst鈥�, in Stad och land, ed. by Kurt Almqvist (Stockholm: Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, 2017), pp. 47-53.

Theorizing Old Norse Myth, eds S. Brink and L. Collinson (Acta Scandinavica 7), Turnhout: Brepols 2017.

鈥淯ppsala 鈥� in Myth and Reality鈥�, in Theorizing Old Norse Myth, eds S. Brink and L. Collinson (Acta Scandinavica 7), Turnhout: Brepols 2017, pp. 175鈥�94.

鈥淢emory in Law鈥� and 鈥淥nomastics鈥�, in Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. by J. Glauser, P. Hermann & S. Mitchell, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, pp. xx

Selected Talks and Conferences

Professor Brink has delivered

the Dorothea Coke Memorial Lecture at University College London in March 2005;

the Sir David M. Wilson Lecture at British Museum/Dept. of Archaeology, University College London in October 2011;

The G. O. Sayles Memorial Lecture on Mediaeval History 2015, University of Aberdeen (March 2015).

 

PhD Students

PhD Students

Professor Brink has supervised more than 30 PhD students in Sweden and in the UK.

He is currently supervising Andrea Freund.

Areas of research

• Society, Culture and Languages of Early Scandinavia
• The Christianization and Early Church Organization in Scandinavia
• Landscape Studies (Scandinavia)
• Language and History in the Early Germanic World
• Viking Slavery
• Germanic Place-Names
• Early Law in Scandinavia
• Old Norse Mythology