Contributors
At Hyldyr, we’re fortunate to work with a variety of talented and passionate individuals. Here we list Hyldyr contributors in alphabetical order and provide links to where you can find more from them.
Writers, translators, & authors
Danielle Cudmore
Halmstad, Sweden
Hyldyr’s academic advisor, Danielle Cudmore was raised by wolves in Massachusetts, USA and received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University. She now teaches English at Halmstad University. Cudmore has edited a variety of Hyldyr publications, including Hopkins’s Nigon Wyrta Galdor (2023) and The Merseburg Spells (2023).
Lauren E. Fountain
Olympia, WA, USA
Hyldyr’s head editor, Lauren E. Fountain is an American editor, writer, and translator based in Olympia, WA. Her background involves a focus on Slavic and Germanic linguistics and folklore. She has edited numerous publications, including Hyldyr publications like The Little Book of Viking Age Symbols (2023) and The Merseburg Spells (2023).
Sara Bonadea George
Sweden
Sara Bonadea George received an MA degree in European Ethnology with Folkloristics from the Uppsala University. She also studied herbalism at Biskops Arnö; an herb-focused education where historical perspectives are paramount. In 2023, her book Blodets blomma: Växter i svensk folktro, on plants in Swedish folklore, was published in Sweden by Gidlunds förlag. An English language edition is slated from Hexen Press.
Joseph S. Hopkins
Olympia, WA, USA
Joseph S. Hopkins is an American writer, editor, and researcher. Hyldyr’s founder, Hopkins also operates Mimisbrunnr.info, a resource that developed out of a reading group at the University of Georgia's Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and edits the University of Helsinki’s RMN Newsletter. Readers can find peer-reviewed articles authored by Hopkins here.
Kári Pálsson
Reykjavík, Iceland
Kári Pálsson is an Icelandic folklorist, antiquarian, and musician, specializing in Old Icelandic literature, pre-Christian Religions of the North, and Icelandic folk beliefs. He holds an MA in Old Norse Religion from the University of Iceland.
Lyonel Perabo
Finby, Åland
Lyonel Perabo is a scholar of Old Norse religion and literature, journalist, translator of folklore, and museum guide. Born in France but based in Scandinavia for most of his adult life, he obtained an MA in Old Norse Religion from the University of Iceland in 2016. He is currently researching the transmission, recension, and translation of the Prose Edda as part of a Phd project in Nordic-Germanic studies undertaken via the Sorbonne Université of Paris.
John Lindow
New York, NY, USA
American academic John Lindow is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored numerous books and articles on ancient Scandinavian topics, including Old Norse Mythology (2021, Oxford University Press). Lindow contributed an introduction to Hopkins’s The Merseburg Spells (2023).
Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran
Newfoundland, Canada
Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran is a Canadian scholar, author, and musician who holds a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, and her podcast radio drama “The Belt and the Necklace,” was recently produced by the Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa. From 2019-2023, MacCath-Moran’s Folklore & Fiction podcast brought the principles of folkloristics to the storytelling craft, and her handbook for writers titled The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore expands on this work.
Bernard Mees
Melbourne, Australia
Bernard Mees taught history, linguistics, and business at the University of Melbourne, Australia, RMIT University, Australia and the University of Tasmania, Australia.He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His most recent books are The English Language Before England (2023) and King Arthur and the Languages of Britain (2025). He is a member of the editorial board of NOWELE. Readers can find his blog The Age of Arthur here.
Mathias Nordvig
Boulder, CO, USA
Mathias Nordvig is a Danish educator, author, and podcaster based outside of Boulder, Colorado. Since 2015, Nordvig has taught Old Norse and Arctic-related subjects at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a PhD in Nordic Mythology, operates the Sacred Flame Podcast, and has authored numerous publications.
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Rune Hjarnø Ramussen is a Danish scholar best known today for his Nordic Animism project, which explores the topic of animism in a historic Northern European context. He contributed an introduction to Nordvig’s Völuspá: The Vision of the Witch (2023) and co-authored Lady Elder Tree (2024) with Joseph S. Hopkins. Rasmussen can often be found walking around Copenhagen talking into a camera and posing with fine statuary.
Giorgia Sottotetti
Reykjavìk, Iceland
Giorgia Sottotetti is an Italian archaeologist who holds a MA in Viking and Old Norse Medieval Studies obtained at the University of Iceland. Her main area of research lies in material culture, the archaeology of religion and ritual, Old Norse Religion(s), and multidisciplinary approaches.
Eirik Storesund
Delaware Valley, DE, USA
Eirik Storesund is a Norwegian writer, artist, and scholar of Old Norse. He is the host and creator of the Brute Norse podcast, where he “seeks to celebrate the weirder aspects of Scandinavian cultural heritage, and instill upon his audience a general sense of chronological confusion”. Storesund also runs the independent imprint Troll Cat Press to serve as the physical outlet for his “Scandifuturist” efforts and to “bring Nordic obscurity to an international audience”.
Haukur Þorgeirsson
Reykjavík, Iceland
Haukur Þorgeirsson is an Icelandic research professor at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic studies. He completed his PhD at the University of Iceland in 2013 and has been a faculty member at the Árni Magnússon Institute since 2014. Haukur contributed an introduction to Mathias Nordvig’s The Icelandic & Swedish Rune Poems. Readers can find many of his peer-reviewed publications at his website here.
Artists
Jacqui Alberts
Seattle, WA, USA
Jacqui Alberts is an American tattooist and visual artist based in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. She currently works from Moonlight Tattoo and travels to tattoo throughout the United States and abroad. Alberts has illustrated several Hyldyr items, including The Little Book of Viking Age Symbols (2023), The Danish & Norwegian Rune Poems (2023), and The Icelandic & Swedish Rune Poems (2024).
Rim Baudey
Beaune, France
Rim Baudey is a Kazakh artist who draws inspiration from topics including folklore, history, and nature. Among a variety of other items illustrated for Hyldyr, Baudey designed and illustrated the Hyldyr logo, which depicts the Elder Mother wearing a crown of elder flowers. She has illustrated various Hyldyr editions, including Nordvig’s Völuspá: The Vision of the Witch (2023), Hopkins’s Nigon Wyrta Galdor: The Nine Plants Spell (2023), and Hopkins’s The Merseburg Spells (2023).
Sara Bøgh
Denmark
Sara Bøgh is a Danish-Canadian illustrator based in Denmark inspired especially by folklore topics. She has contributed to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Sylvia & Tristan Eden
(Leodrune)
Portland, OR, USA
Sylvia and Tristan Eden are a pair of American artists living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. They co-operate Leodrune Press, through which they release their writings on magic and mysticism-related topics. In addition, the duo work together to illustrate traditional pen-and-ink designs, such as their piece included in Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Niall Grant
England
Niall Grant is an English illustrator who specializes in combining Art Nouveau & Golden Age storybook illustration. His depiction of the Elder Tree Lady can be found in various Hyldyr publications, including in Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Jill Lydon
Boston, Massachusetts
Jill Lydon is an American illustrator and risograph artist living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her interests include cursed princesses, medieval castles, and intricate florals. Lyon contributed art to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Isabella Mazzanti
Roma, Italy
Isabella Mazzanti is an Italian-Polish illustrator based in Roma, Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and is art director and founding partner of the IDEA Academy. Mazzanti contributed art to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Katie Metcalfe
England
Katie Metcalfe is a writer, poet, and self-taught photographer from the north of England. Her work “explores the northernmost parts of our world from all conceivable angles, though typically through a dark lens”. Katie maintains a presence on Instagram and her work can be accessed through her website.
Oksana Mychka-Maylone
Seattle, WA, USA
Oksana Mychka-Maylone is a Ukrainian artist with a passion for old folklore, chthonic subjects, and nature. Based in the Seattle, Washington state area, Mychka-Maylone contributed art to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Anette Pirso
Estonia
Anette Pirso is an Estonian self-taught illustrator (Anetteprs Illustrations) with a focus on goddess and divine feminine topics. Pirso contributed art to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Teja Jamilla
Bridgend, South Wales
Teja Jamilla is an artist from Birdgend, South Wales. She finds inspiration in the cycles of life and death within nature and the mossy woodlands of her home town. Jamilla is also a musician, recording for a variety of doom folk and atmospheric black metal projects.
The Saxon Storyteller
England, United Kingdom
The Saxon Storyteller is an English illustrator who focuses primarily on historic Anglo-Saxon, Viking Age, and broader folklore topics and combines them with American Traditional tattoo styles and art forms found in the Early Medieval periods. The Saxon Storyteller contributed art to Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).
Anneke Wilder
Seattle, WA, USA
Anneke Wilder is an American artist who draws from her background as a scientific illustrator and biologist. Wilder’s art can be found featured alongside Rim Baudey’s in Hopkins’s Nigon Wyrta Galdor (2023) and in Hopkins’s & Rasmussen’s Lady Elder Tree (2024).