Klaus Böldl

Klaus Böldl is a German philologist who specializes in Old Norse studies. Böldl was born in Passau and studied Nordic philology, German philology and comparative literature at the universities of Munich and Lund University. Böldl received his Ph.D. in philology at Munich in 1999, where he completed his habilitation in 2005. Since 2007, Böldl has been Professor of Scandinavian Medieval Studies at the Nordic Institute of the University of Kiel.
Böldl is a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. He is a recipient of many awards, including the Toucan Prize, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau, the Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis and the .

Selected works

Studie in Kristallbildung. Frankfurt am Main, 1997..Die Saga von den Leuten auf Eyr. München, 1999. .Südlich von Abisko. Frankfurt am Main, 2000..Der Mythos der Edda. Tübingen, 2000..Die fernen Inseln. Frankfurt am Main, 2003.. Vereinzelt Schneefall. Neue Texte aus Skandinavien, in: Neue Rundschau Jhg. 115, Heft 3. Frankfurt am Main, 2004..Kontinuität in der Kritik. Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven der Skandinavistik. Freiburg, 2005..Drei Flüsse. Frankfurt am Main, 2006..Der nächtliche Lehrer. Frankfurt am Main, 2010..Isländersagas, S.Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011.Götter und Mythen des Nordens. Ein Handbuch. Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2013,.Der Atem der Vögel. Frankfurt am Main, 2017..