Jana Krüger holds a postdoctoral research position at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel and is the author of “̋Wikinger” im Mittelalter: Die Rezeption von víkingr m. und víking f. in der altnordischen Literatur (Berlin and New York, 2008). She is a Research Associate to the project ‘Neuedition der Skaldendichtung’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), which is part of the international project Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, and the project of the Union of the Academies of Sciences ‘Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen – Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS)’, based at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen.