About the Instructor: Dr. Roger Solberg is interested in Scandinavian literature because he is a first-generation American. His parents were immigrants from Norway. He has traced his ancestry to the time of the Vikings—and it includes some royalty. His 33rd great-grandfather, King Harald Finehair, is a character in the popular History Channel series “Vikings.” As an undergraduate, Dr. Solberg spent a semester at the University of Copenhagen, studying Norse mythology, Icelandic sagas, and the anthropology of ancient Denmark. He also wrote his senior thesis on medieval Icelandic literature. As a faculty member at Edinboro, he presented a paper at an international conference on Scandinavian culture, held at New York’s Hofstra University. He has also given talks about the Vikings for Women’s History month and EUP’s Al Stone Lecture Series. His “Literature of the Vikings” course has been offered at Edinboro University in 2004 and 2016.