Bo Gräslund

Bo Gräslund, born 13th of December 1934 in Jönköping, is a Swedish professor emeritus in archeology at Uppsala University. He is married to the Swedish archeologist Anne-Sofie Gräslund, who is an expert in Viking-era runes.

Gräslund is a specialist in the early migration period in Scandinavia, which is depicted in Beowulf, and has argued that the concept of fimbulwinter in Scandinavian mythology reflects a folk memory of the famine and desolation which occurred over a series of unproductive summers after two large volcanic eruptions in 536 and 540. He also attaches the same origin to some of the events in Beowulf in his book Beowulfkvädet - den nordiska bakgrunden "The Beowulf Epic - the Nordic Background."

External links

https://kulturminnet.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/ar-beowulfkvadet-en-sannsaga/ (in Swedish)

https://www.boktugg.se/bok/9789187403279/ (in Swedish)