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Finlay, Alison (2018) So Far and No Further: the story of Cnut and the waves. Scandanavica 57 (1), pp. 89-113. ISSN 0036-5653.

Finlay, Alison (2015) History and fiction in the Kings’ Sagas. The case of Haraldr harðráði. Saga-Book 39 , pp. 77-102. ISSN 0305-9219.

Finlay, Alison (2014) Jómsvíkinga saga and genre. Scripta Islandica 65 , pp. 63-80. ISSN 0582-3234.

Finlay, Alison (2004) Interpretation or over-interpretation? The dating of two Íslendingasögur. Gripla XIV , pp. 61-91. ISSN 1018-5011.

Finlay, Alison (2004) Intolerable love: Tristram's saga And The Carlisle Tristan Fragment. Medium Aevum 73 (2), pp. 205-224. ISSN 0025-8385.

Finlay, Alison (2001) Monstrous allegations: an exchange of ýki in Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa. Alvíssmál 10 , pp. 21-44. ISSN 0942-4555.

Finlay, Alison (1997) Betrothal and women’s autonomy in Laxdœla saga and the Poets’ Sagas. Skáldskaparmál , pp. 107-129. ISSN 1026-213X.

Finlay, Alison (1995) Skalds, troubadours and sagas. Saga Book XXIV (2-3), pp. 105-153. ISSN 0305-9219.

Finlay, Alison (1991) Níð, adultery and feud in Bjarnar saga hítdœlakappa. Saga Book XXIII (3), pp. 158-178. ISSN 0305-9219.

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Finlay, Alison (2015) Elegy and old age in Egil's saga. In: de Looze, L. and Helgason, J.K. and Poole, R. and Tulinius, T.H. (eds.) Egil the Viking Poet. New Approaches to 'Egils saga'. Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, pp. 111-130. ISBN 9781442649699.

Finlay, Alison (2012) Bjarni gullbráskáld: Kálfsflokkr. In: Whaley, D. (ed.) Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1 From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 877-889. ISBN 9782503518961.

Finlay, Alison (2012) Glúmr Geirason: Gráfeldardrápa. In: Whaley, D. (ed.) Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1 From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 245-265. ISBN 9782503518961.

Finlay, Alison (2011) Risking one’s head: Vafþrúðnismál and the mythic power of poetry. In: Anlezark, D. (ed.) Myths, Legends, and Heroes: Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature. Toronto, Canada: Toronto University Press, pp. 91-108. ISBN 9780802099471.

Finlay, Alison (2010) The saga of Ásmundr, killer of champions. In: Finlay, Alison and Arnold, M. (eds.) Making History: Essays on the Fornaldarsögur. London, UK: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 119-139. ISBN 9780903521840.

Finlay, Alison (2009) Chronology, genealogy and conversion: the afterlife of St Edmund in the north. In: Bale, Anthony (ed.) St Edmund, King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint. Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press, pp. 45-62. ISBN 9781903153260.

Finlay, Alison (2007) Putting a Bawn into Beowulf. In: Hall, J.D. and Bland Crowder, A. (eds.) Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 136-154. ISBN 9780230206267.

Finlay, Alison (2007) Thomas Gray’s translations of old Norse poetry. In: Clark, D. and Phelpstead, C. (eds.) Old Norse Made New. Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture. Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780903521765.

Finlay, Alison (2000) Skald sagas in their literary context 2: possible European contexts. In: Poole, R.G. (ed.) Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, And Desire In The Icelandic Sagas Of Poets. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Ergänzungsbände 27. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, pp. 232-271. ISBN 9783110823547.

Finlay, Alison (1997) The saga of Bjorn, champion of the Hitardal people. In: Hreinsson, V. and Cook, R. and Gunnell, T. and Kunz, K. and Scudder, B. (eds.) The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, including 49 Tales. Reykjavik, Iceland: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing Ltd., pp. 255-304. ISBN 9789979929307.

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Finlay, Alison and Jóhannesdóttir, Þ.E. (2018) The Saga of the Jómsvikings: a translation with full introduction. The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe. de Gruyter/Medieval Institute Publications. ISBN 9783110627169.

Finlay, Alison and Faulkes, Anthony (2015) Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla III. From Magnús Óláfsson to Magnús Erlingsson. London, UK and Exeter, UK: Viking Society for Northern Research. ISBN 9780903521932.

Finlay, Alison and Faulkes, A. (2014) Heimskringla II. Óláfr Haraldsson (the Saint). London, UK: Viking Society for Northern Research. ISBN 9780903521895.

Sturluson, S. and Finlay, Alison and Faulkes, A. (2011) Heimskringla I: the beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason. London, UK: Viking Society for Northern Research. ISBN 9780903521864.

Finlay, Alison (2003) Fagrskinna, a catalogue of the kings of Norway: a translation with introduction and notes. The Northern World. Brill. ISBN 9789004131729.