Jackson Crawford is one of the most popular and richest YouTube Star who was born on August 28, 1985 in United States, United States. History buff who has risen to fame for his eponymous YouTube channel. He has earned massive popularity for his video essays documenting the history of Norse mythology and language, including while as a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
He and Neil Gaiman have both published books concerning Norse mythology.
Crawford has published several books, including The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, intended for the use of undergraduate students and general readers, published in 2015 by Hackett Publishing Company. This was followed in 2017 by The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, also published by Hackett Publishing Company.In 2019 he published his book The Wanderer’s Hávamál which serves as a dual language addition of the poem Hávamál with his own commentry for each stanza, the appendix of this book features his poem The Cowboy Hávamál. He has also published creative writing in both English and Norwegian.
Crawford’s research focuses on the history of the Scandinavian languages, specializing in Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Nynorsk. The focus of his Ph.D. dissertation as well as several published and forthcoming articles were on colors in the languages. He has argued, among other things, that Old Norse blár meant blue (not black), and that the language classified warm colors with an intriguing system that distinguished ideal reds with a distinct term, rauðr, but lumped non-ideal reds and other warm colors into a vague category weakly focused on yellow, bleikr.
He has one brother named Travis.
