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Skikkja skírlífisins: Breytingar í gengd sögu, Ný saga 3 (1989), pp. 65-74.
Þögnin mikla: hugleiðingar um riddarasögur og stöðu þeirra í íslenskum bókmenntum, Skáldskaparmál 1 (1990), pp. 157-68.
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The cloak of fidelity: Skikkjurímur, a late-medieval Icelandic version of Le Mantel mautaillié, The Arthurian yearbook I, ed. Keith Busby (New York, 1991), pp. 107-33. [Note: This is a revised translation of the article
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Eg skal Hundólfur heita, Lygisögur sagðar Sverri Tómassyni fimmtugum, 5. apríl 1991 (Reykjavík, 1991), pp. 69-72.
Tillaga ad breitíngum á stafsetníngu íslensks máls, Fjölmóðarvíl til fagnaðar Einari G. Péturssyni fimmtugum, 25. júlí 1991 (Reykjavík, 1991), pp. 75-76.
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Ectors saga ok kappa hans, pp. 147-48;
Gibbons saga, pp. 226-27;
Love Poetry: West Norse, pp. 396-98;
Mírmanns saga, pp. 414-15;
Nitida saga, p. 432;
Sálus saga ok Nikanors, p. 566;
Sigurðar saga fóts ok Ásmundar Húnakóngs, pp. 583-84;
Sigurðar saga turnara, pp. 584-85;
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Vilhjálms saga sjóðs, p. 702.
Grágás, Þúsund og eitt orð sagt Sigurgeiri Steingrímssyni fimmtugum, 2. október 1993 (Reykjavík, 1993), pp. 57-59.
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On the nomenclature of certain cucurbitaceous plants, Strengleikar slegnir Robert Cook, 25. nóvember 1994 (Reykjavík, 1994), pp. 10-14 (available here).
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North and south, Arnarflug: rejselekture for Örn Ólafsson på hans 60-års fødselsdag, 4. april 2001 (København, 2001), 2 pp. (available here).
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Last man standing, Skandinavische Schriftlandschaften: Vänbok till Jürg Glauser, ed. Klaus Müller-Wille et al., Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie LIX (Tübingen, 2017), pp. 248-52.
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