Vivian Busch is a Ph.D. student in the department of Scandinavian Studies at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel. Since 2009 she has worked as a Research Associate to the project ‘Neuedition der Skaldendichtung’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), which is part of the project Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Her areas of interest include skaldic poetry, Old Norse mythology and runology.