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A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur was a postdoctoral fellow at the \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute, funded by the Icelandic Centre for Research, from 2005 to 2007, a Sigur\u00f0ur Nordal research fellow at the same institutefrom 2008 to 2009, adjunct lecturer in folkloristics at the University of Iceland from 2009 and a senior lecturer in the same subject from 2012 to 2015. In 2016, she became a professor of Icelandic at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland.[1]A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur has held various positions of trust at the University of Iceland and elsewhere, e.g. head of the Department of Icelandic, board member for the University of Iceland Research Fund, the University of Iceland Centre for Medieval Studies, the Association of Icelandic Language Teachers and the Society of Folklorists (chair). She has participated in many international collaborative projects and teaching staff exchange programmes, having worked as a guest lecturer or exchange teacher at the University of the Faroe Islands, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Tartu, University College Dublin and the University of Rzesz\u00f3w.[2] She has also been a guest professor at the University of Siena.[1]She sits on various editorial and consulting boards, e.g. for the journal New Norse Studies: A Journal on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia.[3]Table of ContentsResearch[edit]Personal life[edit]Bibliography[edit]Books[edit]Articles[edit]References[edit]Research[edit]A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur’s main focuses in teaching and research are medieval Norse literature, legendary sagas, folktales, folk ballads and r\u00edmur (metrical romances), the history of dance and the history of magic. She has published books such as \u00dalfhams saga in 2001 and Strengleikar in 2006, as well as many academic papers. Her doctoral thesis, \u00dalfhams saga, discussed the metrical verses and the derived prose versions of the saga. The saga was adapted for the stage in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Theatre by the company Anna\u00f0 svi\u00f0 in 2004 and the opportunity was taken to record the r\u00edmur (metrical verses) and publish them on CD along with A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur’s edition of the text, with explanatory notes.[4][5]In 2016 she was awarded the Dag Str\u00f6mb\u00e4ck Prize by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in Uppsala for her achievements in the field of Norse studies and folkloristics.[6][7][8] In 2022 she received the annual Hag\u00feenkir award for academic work of outstanding quality for her two-volume work Arfur aldanna (2021).[9]Personal life[edit]A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur’s parents are Gu\u00f0mundur \u00de. J\u00f3nasson (born 1942) and \u00d3l\u00f6f S. Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir (born 1946). She is married to Gu\u00f0var\u00f0ur M\u00e1r Gunnlaugsson, a philologist, and has three children. A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur has published short stories and poems and has won prizes for her writing.[10]Bibliography[edit]Books[edit]\u00dalfhams saga. (2001). A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir s\u00e1 um \u00fatg\u00e1funa og rita\u00f0i inngang. Reykjav\u00edk: Stofnun \u00c1rna Magn\u00fassonar \u00e1 \u00cdslandi (cclxxxi + 63 pp.)Strengleikar. (2006) A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir s\u00e1 um \u00fatg\u00e1funa og ritar inngang. Reykjav\u00edk: B\u00f3kmenntafr\u00e6\u00f0istofnun H\u00e1sk\u00f3la \u00cdslands.Articles[edit]A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2018). Reflexes of the fornaldars\u00f6gur in Icelandic poetry. In Matthew Driscoll, Silvia Hufnagel, Philip Lavender and Beeke Stegmann (eds.), The legendary legacy: Transmission and reception of the Fornaldars\u00f6gur Nor\u00f0urlanda (pp.\u00a019\u201351).A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2017). Some Heroic Motifs in Icelandic Art. Scripta Islandica 68: 11\u201349.A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2016). “How Do You Know if it is Love or Lust?” On Gender, Status, and Violence in Old Norse Literature. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2: 189\u2013209.A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2015). The Narrative Role of Magic in the Fornaldars\u00f6gur. ARV – Nordic Yearbook of Folklore (pp.\u00a039\u201356).A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2012). The Dancers of De la Gardie 11. Mediaeval Studies, 74: 307\u2013330.A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2012). Gunnarr and the Snake Pit in Medieval Art and Legend. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 87(4): 1015\u20131049.A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2007). The Werewolf in Medieval Icelandic literature. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 106(3): 277\u2013303.A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir. (2006). How Icelandic Legends Reflect the Prohibition on Dancing. ARV – Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, 61: 25\u201352.Mar\u00eda Ellingsen. (2004). \u00dalfhamssaga.\u00c6vint\u00fdragrunnurReferences[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/adalheidur-gudmundsdottir-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir – Wikipedia"}}]}]