Prof. Dr Alexandra Sanmark

Alexandra Sanmark is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research interests include Iron Age Scandinavia, in particular the Viking Age and the expansion into the North Atlantic. She also has a strong interest in Viking Age religion, law and assembly as well as the Christianisation of northwest Europe. She has recently led a number of research projects, such as the AHRC/DFG-funded The Norse and the Sea, which focuses on Viking Age settlement and maritime connections in Scotland and the Royal Society funded Communications in Norse Orkney.

Publications include Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia (2004) and Viking Law and Order. Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North (2017).