Art student studies tiny figurine in Denmark and posits new view of Viking iconography

December 6, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

A woman can be seen through a circle looking down. She is in front of a mirror and has brown and blonde hair and a black dress.

The tiny figurine from Late Iron Age Scandinavia is called the “Valkyrie from Hårby.” It was found in 2012 by an amateur archeologist. The piece was shaped in silver and gilded with a thin layer of gold.

Laura Hendricksen wins CAH Outstanding Thesis Award for work on Hidatsa language

May 20, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Hendricksen won the 2020 College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award for “Demonstratives and Determiner-phrase Structure in Hidatsa Narrative Discourse: A Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Analysis.”