An Evening with Jackson Crawford

Name: An Evening with Jackson Crawford
Start: 2026-04-14T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524

Schedule

Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524 | Fort Collins, CO

Join us at Old Firehouse Books as we welcome Dr. Jackson Crawford to discuss all things Norse! Jackson will be in store on Tuesday, April 14th from 6:00-7:00 PM to give a small lecture, answer questions and personalize copies for anyone who purchases them. If you'd like to order any books ahead of time you may do so in store or online, but we do not ship internationally. We can't wait to see you there!
About Poetic Edda:
This Expanded Second Edition of Jackson Crawford's 2015 translation of the Poetic Edda offers a wider range of poems (now including the Eddic Old Norse poem "Svipdagsmal" and four related non-Eddic Old Norse poems, "Eiriksmal," "Hakonarmal," "Krakumal," and "Lokrur") as well as a revised translation and enhanced editorial apparatus. Set in a new page design, it also features samples from the Old Norse texts written in the Old Norse runic alphabet known as the Younger Futhark (in Jackson Crawford's hand) along with original Old Norse-inspired Latin alphabet typographical ideograms (by E. L. Wilson).
About Jackson Crawford:
Jackson Crawford taught the Old Norse language, as well as courses in Norse mythology and Old Norse saga literature, for nine years at major universities (including UCLA from 2011-14, UC Berkeley from 2015-17, and the University of Colorado from 2017-20). He holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Scandinavian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he wrote a dissertation on color vocabulary in Old Norse. During that time he was also a consultant on Disney's Frozen and major television programs, as well as the popular video game Assassin's Creed:Valhalla. Since 2020, he has been an independent educator, using his Youtube channel and popular translations of Norse myths and sagas from Hackett Publishing to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers and readers with well-sourced information about Norse language, mythology, and runes. His research interests today focus on the relationship of the runes to Mediterranean alphabets, as well as the use of linguistic criteria to determine the date of Old Norse texts.