Selected Publications
“Beyond a grammar of ornament: The language of visual narratives.” In: Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone. Ed. by J. Hawkes and S. Semple. Boydell & Brewer, November 2025 (forthcoming).
“Animals in Stone.” In: Animalia: Animal and Human Interaction in the Early Medieval English World. Ed. by G. Owen-Crocker and M. Clegg-Hyer. The Material Culture of Daily Living 5. Liverpool UP, 2025, pp. 226-249.
“Inscriptions on Stone Monuments: Methodological Concerns.” In: Old English Runes: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to Terminologies. Ed. by G. Waxenberger, K. Kazzazi, and J. Hines. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 134. De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 81-102. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796834-005
“Strategies of Visual Storytelling: Sigurd the Dragon-slayer at Ramsundsberget, Sweden. A Case Study.” In: Fidele Signaculum. Írások Szőnyi György Endre tiszteletére / Writings in Honour of György Endre Szőnyi. Ed. by A. Kiss, Á. Matuska, and R. Péter. University of Szeged, 2022, pp. 525-538.
“The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Saxon Runic Stone Monuments: Runic Inscriptions and the Development of Sculpture in Early Medieval England.” In: Reading Runes. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Nyköping, Sweden, 2–6 September 2014. Ed. by M. MacLeod, M. Bianchi, and H. Williams. Runrön 24. Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet, 2021, pp. 143–156. DOI: 10.33063/diva-438873
Joseph Koivisto, Lilla Kopár, and Nancy L. Wicker, “Bridging the Gap: Managing a Digital Medieval Initiative Across Disciplines and Institutions.” In Meeting the Medieval in the Digital World. Ed. by M. E. Davis, T. Mahoney-Steel & E. Turnator. ARC Humanities Press, 2018, pp. 223-240.
Martin Findell and Lilla Kopár, “Runes and Commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England.” Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts, Volume 6 (2017): 110-137. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.9772151.0006.004
“Eddic Poetry and the Imagery of Stone Monuments.” In: A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia. Ed. by C. Larrington, J. Quinn, and B. Schorn. Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 190-211.
“The Case of the Headless Body: A Note on the Iconography of Sigurd and Wayland in Viking-Age England.” In: Bilddenkmäler zur germanischen Götter- und Heldensage. Ed. by W. Heizmann and S. Oehrl. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Ergänzungsband 91. De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 315–332.
“Heroes on the Fringes of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Corpus: Vernacular Memorial Inscriptions on Stone Sculpture.” In: Heroes and Saints: Studies in Honour of Katalin Halácsy. Ed. by Zs. Simonkay and A. Nagy. Mondat, 2015, pp. 85-120.
Gods and Settlers: The Iconography of Norse Mythology in Anglo-Scandinavian Sculpture. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 25. Brepols, 2012.
“Spatial Understanding of Time in Early Germanic Cultures: The Evidence of Old English Time Words and Norse Mythology.” In: Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö. Ed. by A. Hall, et al. The Northern World 48. Brill, 2010, pp. 203-230. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004180116.i-340.58
“Thuróczy, János.” In: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Ed. R.G. Dunphy. Brill, 2010, pp. 1429-30.
“The Use of Artistic Media in Norse Greenland.” Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 2 (2009): 102-113.
“The Wings of Weland.” In: The Iconography of the Fantastic. Eastern and Western Traditions of European Iconography 2. Ed. by A. Kiss, et al. Papers in English and American Studies X / Studia Poetica 11. JATE Press, 2002, pp. 39-48.
“The Colorful Fabric of Time. Contemporary Reception and Intellectual Background of Viking-Age Stone Carvings on the Example of the Gosforth Cross.” In: Aspects of Time in English and American Literature. Ed. T. Fabiny. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2001, pp. 24-33.
“Leben und Taten verstorbener Könige. Entstehung literarischer Zeugnisse über das Leben von Ólafr Tryggvason und König Harold II von England nach ihrem (angeblichen) Tod.” In: Arbeiten zur Skandinavistik. 13. Arbeitstagung der deutschsprachigen Skandinavistik, 29.7-3.8.1997 in Lysebu (Oslo). Ed. F. Paul, et al. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Germanistik und Skandinavistik 45. Peter Lang, 2000, pp. 181-188.
Current International Research Projects
Gotlandic Picture Stones: The Online Edition (Sweden)
Andvari Iconographic Thesaurus application: https://www.gotlandicpicturestones.se/s/index/page/andvari-thesaurus
Project RuneS: Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (Germany).