John Lindow (født 1946) er en amerikansk religionsforsker, folklorist og professor ved institut for Studier i skandinavisk middelalder og folklore ved Berkeley Universitet i Californien. I 1972 fik han en Ph.d. grad i germansk sprog og litteratur fra Harvard, og i 1981 blev han ansat i sin nuværende stilling på Berkeley. Lindows værker omfatter bl.a. en håndbog i Nordisk mytologi Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Rituals, and Beliefs.Lindow (2001:Rear flap). John Lindows hovedarbejdsområde er norrøn litteratur med fokus på mytologi og poesi, skandinavisk folklore og legender, og finno-ugrisk folklore. Hans metodiske fokus er fortolkning af tekst i social og historisk kontekst.
Bibliograf Lindow, John (1976) Comitatus, individual and honor: Studies in north Germanic institutional vocabulary, University of California PressBarnes, Michael (1978) Review of Comitatus, Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary by John Lindow (A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1972), Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jul., 1978, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 597-600 Lindow, John (1978) Swedish legends and folktales, Berkeley: University of California PressSimpson, Jacqueline (1979) Review of Swedish Legends and Folktales by John Lindow, Folklore, vol. 90, no. 2, p. 244 Myths and Legends of the Vikings, Bellerophon Books, 1980. Viking Ships, Belerophon Books, 1982. Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Press, 1984. (Editor with Carol J. Clover) Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1985, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2005. (Editor with Lars Lonnroth and Gerd Wolfgang Weber) Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature: New Approaches to Textual Analysis and Literary Criticism, Odense University Press (Odense), 1986. Lindow, John (1997) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, Helsinki : Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum FennicaHugus, Frank (1999) (Review of) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, by John Lindow, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr.), pp. 450-452 (Editor with Carl Lindahl and John McNamara) Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ABC-CLIO, 2000. Lindow, John (2001) Handbook of Norse mythology, Santa Barbara, Calif.Simpson, Jacqueline (2003) Review of Handbook of Norse Mythology, Folklore, Aug., 2003, vol. 114, no. 2, pp. 275–76 also published as Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. .Lindow (2001:Rear flap). Lindow, John (2014) Trolls: An Unnatural History. London: Reaction BooksO’Donoghue, Heather (2014) From folk tales to internet pests - Review of John Lindow TROLLS An unnatural history, Times Literary Review 19 November 2014
Artikler i udvalg "Akkerisfrakki: Traditions Concerning Óláfr Tryggvason and Hallfreddr Óttarsson vandraskáld and the Problem of the Conversion." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2007): 64-80. "Poets and Poetry in Myth and Life: The Case of Bragi." In Old Norse Religion In Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes And Interactions: An International Conference in Lund, Sweden June 3-7, 2004. Vägar till Midagård, 8. Ed. Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, and Catharine Raudvere (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006), 21-25. "Cultures in Contact." Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. The Viking Collection, Vol. 14. (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003), 89-109. "Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga Saga." Myth: A New Symposium, ed. Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen. (Blomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2002), 107-123. "The Tears of the Gods: A Note on the Death of Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology." Journal of Englush and Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 155-169. "Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints." Scandinavian Studies 73 (2001): 437-456
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Litteratur Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. .
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