His subproject, Explaining Poetry in Old Norse: Mythical Digressions in Snorri’s Edda Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, is a discursive study of digression as a principle of cosmological narration in pre-Christian myths in the 13th century, as recounted by the Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson and Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus. Based on textual analysis of narrative patterns in the text’s dialogic form, this project contributes insights into the quality of digression as means by which pre-Christian mythic tropes, themes and cosmological principles continued to endure in medieval Christian texts in the North by syncretically enfolding themselves within the latter. If funded, Mathias Nordvig will become post doctoral research fellow at Aarhus University.