Peer-Reviewed Publications
Evans-Tang, Harriet J. & Keith Ruiter. 2023. “Horses in Viking Age Ritual Action,” in The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, ed. by Leszek Gardeła, Peter Pentz, and Sophie Bønding, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 213-227.
Evans-Tang, Harriet J. & Keith Ruiter. 2023. “Exploring Animals as Agents and Objects in Early Medieval Scandinavia,” in Motifs through the Ages: Animals and Animated Objects in Past Societies, ed. by Leszek Gardeła & Kamil Kajkowski, Turnhout: Brepols, 81-101.
Ruiter, Keith. 2021. “Legal Custom & Lex Castrensis?: Using Law and Literature to Navigate the North-Sea Neighbourhood in the Late Viking Age,” in Britain & its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts & Exchanges in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, ed. by Dirk H. Steinforth & Charlie Rozier, New York: Routledge, Routledge Themes in Medieval and Early Modern Histories, 105-120.
Ruiter, Keith. 2020. “Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga,” in Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia, ed. by Roland Scheel, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsbände 117, 171-184.
Ruiter, Keith. 2019. “A Deviant Word Hoard: A Study of Non-Normative Terms in Early Medieval Scandinavia,” in Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia, ed. by Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek, & Grzegorz Bartusik, Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, Beyond Medieval Europe, 201-212.
Ruiter, Keith & Steven P. Ashby. 2018. “Different Strokes: Judicial Violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia,” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 14, 153-184.
Kyriakou, Aristea, Jan Peter Loovers, Anette Moir, Eleanor Peers, & Keith Ruiter. 2018. “Sharing a Voice: Early-Career Scholars and the Arctic,” Education in the North 25.1, 181-185.
Ruiter, Keith. 2014. “Visibility, Authority, and Execution in Heimskringla,” in Illuminating the North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013, ed. Agnes Broomé and others, London: Norvik Press, 119-132.
Policy Publications
Lessner Lištiaková, Ivana. et al. 2024. Policy Playbook for Co-creation of Educational Practices, University of Suffolk. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12091227.
Book Reviews
Ruiter, Keith. 2021. “Review of Alexandra Sanmark, Viking Law and Order,” Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, vol. 2, 77-79.
Ruiter, Keith. 2021. “Review of Marianne Hem Eriksen, Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space,” Early Medieval Europe, vol. 29.2, 258-260.
Ruiter, Keith. 2019. “Review of Daniela Hahn & Andreas Schmidt, eds, Bad Boys and Wicked Women: Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature,” Saga-Book 43, 188-190.
Public-Engagement Publications and Media
Ruiter, Keith and Harriet Evans Tang. 2023 (podcast guests) “Zoo-Vikings, with Dr Harriet Evans-Tang and Dr Keith Ruiter,” The Archaeodeath Podcast, https://youtu.be/8cAoDVQejrM?si=bCTYDReAsA2IZWbW
Ruiter, Keith and Harriet Evans Tang. “Shared horse and human burials show how deeply the vikings cared for their animal companions” on The Conversation UK, August 2, 2023, https://theconversation.com/shared-horse-and-human-burials-show-how-deeply-the-vikingscared-for-their-animal-companions-209185.
Ruiter, Keith. 2020. “Linking Law: Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Law in Literature and History,” The Historian, 8-12, https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/9739/linking-law-viking-andmedieval-scandinavian-law.
Ruiter, Keith. 2020 (Podcast Guest) “Researching the Viking Age,” The Life in Norway Show, https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-researcher/.
Ruiter, Keith. “In Defence of the Vikings: they wouldn’t have suffered Donald Trump” on The Conversation UK, March 30, 2017, https://theconversation.com/in-defence-of-the-vikings-they-wouldnt-havesuffered-donald-trump-71185.
Ruiter, Keith. ‘Ragnar Shaggy-Trousers and Eystein Foul-Fart: the truth behind Viking names’ on The Conversation UK, February 18, 2016, http://theconversation.com/ragnar-shaggy-trousers-andeystein-foul-fart-the-truth-behind-viking-names-53256.