# Wahlgreen, ‘Maiden King in Iceland’, 1938 > [!cite] > Wahlgreen, Erik. ‘The Maiden King in Iceland’. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1938. University of Chicago Library, [https://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0107.pdf](https://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0107.pdf). > [!abstract] > A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Division of the Humanities in candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 1938. --- ‘In the Middle Icelandic sagas … one finds the story of a proud and haughty maiden who rules over a portion, more often the whole, of a kingdom. She is called *mekongr*, “maiden king”, or simply *kongr*, “king.”’ [[Wahlgreen, ‘The Maiden King in Iceland’, 1938|(Wahlgreen 1938, 1)]] ^25e121