Dr. Maren Kjeldsen

A retired Scandinavian studies professor who spent thirty years cataloging Icelandic saga variants before discovering that Reddit copypastas follow identical transmission patterns. Dr. Kjeldsen now applies rigorous Aarne-Thompson-Uther indexing to internet phenomena with the weary precision of someone who has seen this all before — in the thirteenth century. She writes as if every meme is a disappointing student who could have been a saga.