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The 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala/Sweden. Conference program.

Registration & Coffee

Opening Ceremony

Key Note Speaker: John McKinnell

Parallel sessions, Lunch & Coffee Breaks

Key Note Speaker: Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir

The Vice-Chancellor’s Reception

08.30–09.45

10.15–11.00

11.00–11.45

11.45–17.25

17.30–18.15

18.15–19.00

Parallel Sessions, Lunch & Coffee Breaks

09.15–ca. 17.30 Daytour, bus 2: Birka via Härjarö

Evening tour B: Uppsala Cathedral

Evening tour C: Rune Stones, University Park

Evening tour D: Institute for Language and Folklore, SOFI

Organ Concert

Key Note Speaker: Elena Gurevich

Parallel Sessions, Lunch & Lunch Breaks

Key Note Speaker: Lars Lönnroth

09.45–15.10

15.15–16.00

The Evening Banquet, Uppsala Castle18.00–01.00

Entrance Hall

The Aula

The Aula

The Aula

The Aula

Monday, 10th August

Registration

Reception

17.00–21.00

17.30–21.00

Engelska parkenSpråkvetenskapligt centrumThunbergsvägen 3L

Sunday, 9th August

Tuesday, 11th August09.00–16.00

18.00–ca. 22.00 Gamla Uppsala Klockporten

Wednesday, 12th August

11.00–ca. 17.45

10.00–ca. 17.00

Daytour, bus 3: Birka via Härjarö

Daytour, bus 1: Birka via Hovgården/Adelsö

Daytour, bus 4: Ramsund

Daytour, bus 5: Sigtuna (departure by boat)

Daytour, bus 6: Vallentuna/Täby

Klockporten

Klockporten

Klockporten

Klockporten

Islandsbron

Klockporten

Thursday, 13th August 19.00

19.00

19.00

19.00

19.00

Klockporten

Klockporten

Klockporten

Klockporten

Klockporten

09.00–17.50 Parallel Sessions, Lunch & Coffee Breaks

Evening tour A: University Library

Evening tour E: Valsgärde Burial Ground

21.00 Cathedral

09.00–09.45 The Aula

The Aula

Friday, 14th August

Uppsala Castle

Business meetingSaturday, 15th August

10.15–12.00

12.00– Coffee Break

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See det. program

Room X

Entrance Hall

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

09.15–ca. 17.30

08.30–ca. 18.00

09.00–ca. 17.30

20.00–ca. 22.00 Prebusiness Meeting & BuffetInternational Advisory board

Dept. of Scandi-navian Languages

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See det. program

ConferenCe SChedule, overview The leCTure roomS

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day 2:1, monday, 10Th auguST

08.30–09.45

10.15–11.00

11.00–11.45

13.00–13.30

13.35–14.05

14.10–14.40

14.45–15.15

11.45–13.00

15.15–15.45

2A

2B1

2B2

2B3

2B4

2B

REGISTRATION & COFFEEUniversity Main Building

KEY NOTE SPEAKERThe Aula

Chair: Rudolf SimekJohn McKinnell

Ynglingatal: A Minimalist Interpretation

Guðrún NordalAlternative criteria for the dating

of the sagas of Icelanders

Kári GíslasonSweden of the Sagas

Maria-Claudia TomanyEarl Hákon of Orkney’s Journey to

Sweden

Stephen MitchellMyth and Memory in Swedish

Conversion Narratives

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

Royal Women and the Friðgerðarsaga Episode

Matthew DriscollEditing the Fornaldarsögur

Norðurlanda

Charlotte FrantzdatterThe Story of Þorsteins þáttr

bæjarmagns as the manuscripts tell it

Silvia HufnagelSörla saga sterka and Rafn’s

edition

Alessio PiccininiThe Thidrekssaga and the birth of

the �rst Russian state

Betsie CleworthAn Icelandic Genesis

Olof HolmThe Herjólfr Legend from

Härjedalen and Its Resemblances to the Stories of Landnámabók

COFFEE

OPENING CEREMONYThe Aula

LUNCH

SVÍÞJÓÐ IRoom: XI

Chair: Kirsten Wolf

OPEN IIRoom: IX

Chair: Rory McTurk

OPEN IRoom: IV

Chair: Sverrir Jakobsson

ARCHAEOLOGY IRoom: VIII

Chair: Anne-So�e Gräslund

Elisabeth WardEstranged Bedfellows: Saga

Scholarship and Archaeological Research in Iceland

Helena VictorThe Archaeological Material

Culture behind the Sagas

Zanette Tsigaridas GlørstadWhy did Kjartans’ men disapprove

of his cloak? Identifying political symbols and rituals in the

archaeological record and the Sagas of the Icelanders

Jesse ByockSagas and Archaeology in the

Mosfell Valley, Iceland

Marjolein SternSigurðr Fáfnisbani as commemorative motif

Ármann JakobssonWhy be afraid? On the practical

uses of legends

David AshurstSigurðr Fáfnisbani as

Nineteenth-Century Man

SIGURÐR IRoom: X

Chair: Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir

Judy QuinnBetrothal and betrayal: the eddic tradition’s treatment of Sigurðr

Jonas WellendorfHigh-seat pillars, bells and doors


day 2:2, monday, 10Th auguST

15.45–16.15

16.20–16.50

16.55–17.25

17.30–18.15

18.15–19.00

2C1

2C2

2C3

2D

2C

James KnirkSverris saga in Uppsala De la

Gardie 3

Þorleifur HaukssonThe Versions of Böglunga saga

Lars WollinCaroline philology and translation. Some aspects of Old Norse studies

in Great Power Sweden

Karl G. JohanssonDen höviske Bósi. Herrauðs ok

Bósa saga i genrernas gränsland

Helen F. LeslieLandscape and the Other World in

the Fornaldarsögur

Stefka EriksenReception and function of stories

about the East

Jakub MorawiecÓláfr sœnski and his skalds in Old

Norse tradition

Hans Jacob OrningImagining the Kalmar union.

Nordic politics as viewed from a late 15th-century Icelandic

manuscript

John KennedySweden and the Swedes in English

language surveys of the Viking period

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S RECEPTIONKerstin Sahlin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University


Chair: Marianne KalinkeSvanhildur Óskarsdóttir

To the letter: Philology as a core component of Old Norse Studies

Bernard MeesAlu and hale II: ‘May Thor bless’

Lydia KlosRune stones and Saga

Cecilia LjungGendered memory – Rune stones, early Christian grave monuments

and the Sagas

HISTORIOGRAPHY IRoom: X

Chair: Matthew Driscoll

OPEN IIIRoom: IX

Chair: Tor� Tulinius

SVÍÞJÓÐ IIRoom: XI

Chair: Elena Melnikova

RUNE STONES IRoom: IV

Chair: Terje Spurkland

ARCHAEOLOGY IIRoom: VIII

Chair: Frands Herschend

Leif EinarsonWhich came �rst – the smith or the

shaman? Vôlundarkviða, craftspeople and central place

complexes

Sirpa Aalto &Ville Laakso

Karelia, Finland and Austrvegr

Tatjana JacksonAldeigjuborg of the sagas in the

light of archaeological data

The 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala/Sweden. Conference program.

day 3:1, TueSday, 11Th auguST

09.00–09.30

09.35–10.05

10.10–10.40

10.40–11.10

11.10–11.40

11.45–12.15

12.20–12.50

12.50–14.00

3A

3B

3A1

3A2

3A3

3B1

3B2

3B3

Auður Ingvarsdóttir‘Viðbætur’ Hauks Erlendssonar eða hefðbundið Landnámuefni

Magnús HaukssonDie Sagas und die isländische Laiengeschichtsschreibung

Pernille HermannThe Construction of Memory in Medieval Icelandic Literature

Mikael Males“Archaic” Assonance in the

Strophes of Ragnarr Loðbróks Family and Other Early Skalds

Terje SpurklandFornaldarsögur and the concept of

literacy

Alexey EremenkoThe ethical map of the Hrólfs saga

Gautrekssonar

Merrill KaplanHeads and tales: Mímir, Völsi, and

the pursuit of prophecy

Henning KureA fling with Óðinn’s spear

Margareta RegebroThe women and Óðinn

LUNCH

COFFEE

Úlfar BragasonSturla the trickster

Vera JohanterwageBiörner’s edition of the Friðþjófs

saga ins frœkna

Emily LethbridgeScribal Presence in Eggertsbók and

Modern Editorial Attitudes

Massimiliano Bampi“Gôfuct dýr ec heiti”: Deer

Symbolism in Sigurðr Fáfnisbani?

Rory McTurkÁslaug Granadóttir? When, where

and how was Áslaug conceived?

Carolyne LarringtonStjúpmœðrasögur and Sigurðr’s

Daughters

Joonas AholaOutlaws, women and violence. In

the social margins of saga literature

Bernt Øyvind ThorvaldsenMagic in sagas: the curses of Katla

and Glámr

Lisa BennettThe ‘Other’ and the Noble

Heathen: Ambiguous Representations of Grettir and

Finnbogi

Annette KruhøfferWhen was the Battle of Helgeå?

Erin GoeresSaintly Exile: the commemoration

of King Óláfr inn helgi in the poetry of Heimskringla

Anders HultgårdOdin – an immigrant in

Scandinavia?

HISTORIOGRAPHY IIIRoom: VIII

Chair: Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson

SIGURÐR IIRoom: X

Chair: Richard Harris

ORAL IRoom: IV

Chair: Leszek Gardeła

OPEN VIIRoom: XI

Chair: Fulvio Ferrari

ÓÐINN IIRoom: IX

Chair: Jens Peter Schjødt

Bernadine McCreeshOvercoming Óðinn: the Conversion

Episode in Njáls saga

Sverre BaggeSt. Óláfr and his Enemies in the

Saga Tradition

HISTORIOGRAPHY IIRoom: VIII

Chair: Guðrún Nordal

OPEN IVRoom: IV

Chair: Stephanie Gropper

ÓÐINN IRoom: IX

Chair: Annette Lassen

OPEN VIRoom: XI

Chair: Geraldine Barnes

John D ShaferSaga Accounts of

Violence-motivated Far-travel

Karoline KjesrudEksotiske vesener i islandsk

ridderlitteratur – fremstilling og funksjon

Paul LangeslagTrôll and Ethnicity in Egils saga

Deborah PottsSuffering a sea-change: poetic justice in Egill’s Sonatorrek

David ClarkManslaughter and Misogyny:

women and revenge in the sagas

Carl PhelpsteadHair Loss, the Tonsure, and

Masculinity in Medieval Iceland

Katrina BurgeNegotiations of Space and Gender

in Brennu-Njáls Saga

OPEN VRoom: X

Chair: Judith Jesch


day 3:2, TueSday, 11Th auguST

14.00–14.30

14.35–15.05

15.10–15.40

15.40–16.00

18.00–22.00

3C

3C1

3C2

3C3

Richard HarrisThe Phraseological Matrix of the

Völsung-Ni�ung Cycle

Kate HeslopHjarta sjónir: Ekphrasis and

medium in Líknarbraut

Rune PalmRunic Literacy and Viking-age

Orality

Slavica RankovićGrettir the Deep: Traditional

Referentiality and Characterisation in the

Íslendingasögur

Tor� H. Tulinius“Ærið gott gömlum og feigum.”

Seeking death in Njáls saga

Elín Bára MagnúsdóttirLove affairs versus Social Status:

A Theme in Kormáks saga?

Tatiana ShenyavskayaOn Typology of the Name-Giving

Formulas in the Sagas

Diana WhaleyKormáks saga and the naming of

Scarborough – a likely story?

Maths BertellMikill vinr Þórs. Eyrbyggja saga och namngivningen i runinskrifter

COFFEE

GAMLA UPPSALA

ORAL IIRoom: XI

Chair: David Ashurst

OPEN IXRoom: IX

Chair: Alison Finlay

NAMES AND SAGA IRoom: VIII

Chair: Per Vikstrand

OPEN VIIIRoom: IV

Chair: Judy Quinn

Kendra WillsonParody and genre in sagas of

Icelanders

Philip RoughtonA Hagiographical Reading of Egils

saga

John MegaardEr Njáls saga skrevet av Sturla

Þórðarson?

Annette LassenAlle islændingesagaer i nye danske

oversættelser

Ragnheiður MósesdóttirThe production of Arnamagnæan editions and their audience in the

period 1772–1936

Tereza VachunováHrólfs saga kraka – A History of

Editing

HISTORIOGRAPHY IVRoom: X

Chair: Pernille Hermann


day 5:1, ThurSday, 13Th auguST

09.00–09.30

09.35–10.05

10.10–10.40

10.40–11.10

11.10–11.40

11.45–12.15

12.20–12.50

12.50–14.00

5A

5A1

5A2

5A3

5B1

5B2

5B3

Lorenzo Lozzi GalloÓðinn’s Role as a Guarantor of Law

and Order in Norse Texts

Emily LyleRoyal Descent from Odin

Werner SchäfkeThe “Wild East” in Late Medieval

Icelandic Romances – Just a Prop(p)?

Elise KleivaneWhen small words make a big difference. On adaptation and transmission of texts in Late

Medieval manuscripts

Tommaso MaraniThe kauphús of Peter the Apostle

in Leiðarvísir: A Market or a Scribal Error?

Maja Bäckvall,Heimir Pálsson,

Lasse Mårtensson &Daniel Sävborg

The Original version of Edda Snorra Sturlusonar?

Studies in Codex Upsaliensis: A project presentation (I–II)

Daniel SävborgRedaktionen av Skáldskaparmál i

Codex Upsaliensis

LUNCH

COFFEE

Sabine WaltherThe Prosimetrum: Orally Derived

Literature?

Galina GlazyrinaOn the Reception of Eastern

Europe in Pre-Literate Iceland

Inna MatyushinaThe Valtari story in Þiðriks Saga

af Bern: sources and parallels

Regina JuckniesWhere Old West and Old East

Norse literature meet A project outline

Karen Bek-PedersenWhat do the norns actually do?

Terry GunnellAnsgar's Conversion of Iceland

Kjersti BruvollThe Good, the Bad and the Devil! On rewriting a Religious Motif in

some Virgin Martyr Legends

Þórður Ingi GuðjónssonFrom Syria to Iceland: The Saga of

St. Thomas the apostle (Tómas saga postula)

Hendrik LambertusMirrors of the Self –

Deconstructing Bipolarity in the Late Icelandic Romances

CODEX UPSALIENSIS IIRoom: IX

Chair: Henrik Williams

ORAL IIIRoom: X

Chair: Massimilano Bampi

OPEN XIIIRoom: VIII

Chair: Úlfar Bragason

OPEN XIVRoom: XI

Chair: Margaret Cormack

OPEN XIIRoom: IV

Chair: Tatjana Jackson

Geraldine BarnesByzantium in the riddarasögur

Bjørn BandlienMuslims in Karlamagnúss saga and Elíss saga ok Rósamundar

Margaret Clunies RossPoets and Ethnicity

Jürg GlauserSensory deceptions. Concepts of

mediality in the Prose Edda

Bryan Weston WylyKenning construal as a criterion for

the stemmatic analysis of the Codex Upsaliensis in the

transmission of Snorra Edda

Anders AndrénWhirls, horses and ships. Towards

an interpretation of the early picture stones on Gotland

Tsukusu ItóThe Gosforth Fishing-Stone and

Hymiskviða: An Example of Inter-Communicability between the Old English and Old Norse

Speakers

Matthew Townend‘I have been laughed at a good deal

about my heathenism’: W.S. Calverley and the early

interpretation of the Gosforth Cross

ÓÐINN IIIRoom: X

Chair: Anders Hultgård

OPEN XIRoom: XI

Chair: Ármann Jakobsson

CODEX UPSALIENSIS IRoom: IX

Chair: Mats Malm

PICTURE STONES IRoom: VIII

Chair: Svante Fischer

OPEN XRoom: IV

Chair: Bjørn Bandlien

Hannah BurrowsThe Secret Lives of Lawspeakers: the portrayal of lögsögumenn in

the Íslendingasögur

Helgi Skúli KjartanssonLaw recital according to Old

Icelandic law: Written evidence of oral transmission?

Lena RohrbachDie Fabrikation des Rechts.

Implikationen medialer Ausformungen in west- und

ostnordischen Rechtsbuchhandschriften

5B

Leszek GardełaThe Good, the Bad and the

Undead. New Thoughts on the Ambivalence of Old Norse Sorcery

Brittany SchornMan as the Measure of All Things:

The Relationship Between Mankind and the Gods in Eddic

Wisdom Poetry


day 5:2, ThurSday, 13Th auguST

14.00–14.30

14.35–15.05

15.10–15.40

16.15–16.45

15.45–16.15

5C1

5C2

5C3

5C4

5D1

5D2

COFFEE

Mathias StrandbergIs Óðinn really ‘alles Fader’?

Lisa FraserA New Etymology for Hamlet?

The Names Amlethus, Amlóði and Admlithi

Natalia GaninaHundingr und Saurr: zum Mythologem «Hund» im

Altnordischen

Fjodor UspenskijFrom the History of the Obscene:

Evident and concealed meanings of the nickname Þambarskel�r

Kirsten WolfTowards a Diachronic Analysis of Old Norse-Icelandic Color Terms:

The Cases of Green and Yellow

Hugh Atkinsonupp ek þér verp ok á austrvega:

death overseas and the dead in the east

Jamie CochranePassing Time and the Past in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar

Maria Cristina LombardiThe Gutnic runkalender and the ancient system of time calculus

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson

Hvernig leit Uppsalabók út í öndverðu?

Aðalheiður GuðmundsdóttirDancing Images from Medieval

Iceland

Patricia (Trish) BaerIndividuality and Iconography:

Jakob Sigurðsson’s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v

Cyril De PinsRhetorical Elements in Codex

Wormiamus

16.45–17.15

17.20–17.50

Anders Andrén,Margaret Clunies Ross,

Matthew Driscoll,Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson &

Odd Einar HaugenReading the Past Together:

Communication across Disciplines in Old Norse Studies (I–II)

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONRoom: X

Chair: Kendra Willson

Laila Kitzler ÅhfeldtCeltic and Continental handicraft

traditions; Template use on Gotlandic Picture Stones analysed

by 3D-scanning

PICTURE STONES IIRoom: IV

Chair: Michael Lerche Nielsen

Jörg BüschgensVatnsdœla saga and Onomastics:

the case of Ingimundr Þorsteinsson

Jens Ulff-MøllerThe Genealogies of West-Icelandic Family Sagas and their relation to

the Sturlung family

NAMES AND SAGA IIIRoom: IX

Chair: Gudlaug Nedrelid

Chiara BenatiÁsmund á austrvega: The Faroese Oral Tradition on Ásmund and its

Relation to the Icelandic Saga

Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir-YershovaHildibrandr húnakappi and

Ásmundr kappabani in Icelandic sagas and Faroese ballads

ORAL VRoom: XI

Chair: Jürg Glauser

Tommy DanielssonKänsla och oro i Fóstbrœðra saga

FrogSnorri Sturluson and oral

traditions

Nichole SterlingShifting Blame and the Subtle

Management of Saga Narrative

Nanna LøkkaTopogra� i eddadiktningen

ORAL IVRoom: VIII

Chair: Jan Ragnar Hagland

NAMES AND SAGA IIRoom: IX

Chair: Lennart Elmevik

OPEN XVRoom: IV

Chair: Vilmos Voigt

CODEX UPSALIENSIS IIIRoom: X

Chair: Karl G. Johansson

OPEN XVIRoom: XI

Chair: Carl Phelpstead

Francesco VittiThe reproduction of Old Icelandic close front rounded vowels (<y>,

<ý> and <ey>) in a 17th c. manuscript (AM 105 fol) of a part of

Hauksbók (AM 371 4to)

Agathe Maria HahnFrüheste Übersetzungen im Norden: Konzepte – Ziele –

Traditionen

Jonatan PetterssonThe East as a Model for the West: Translation Method and Aims in

Alexanders saga

Michael Lerche Nielsenguþr uorn hilpi suitioþ. A note on

forged runic coins, sagas and stones from the 17th century

19.00– EVENING TOURS AND ORGAN CONCERT

5C

5D

Tarrin WillsThe Development of Skaldic

Language

Jonathan GroveRecreating Tradition: Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Víkingarvísur and

Óttarr svarti’s Hôfuðlausn

OPEN XVIIRoom: VIII

Chair: Emily Lethbridge


day 6:1, friday, 14Th auguST

09.00–09.45

10.15–10.45

10.50–11.20

11.25–11.55

12.00–12.30

12.30–13.30

09.45–10.15

6B1

6B2

6B3

6B4

6A


Chair: Margaret Clunies RossElena Gurevich

From Accusation to Narration: the Transformation of Senna in Íslendingaþættir

Aleksandra PetrulevichWest Slavic toponyms in Knýtlinga saga: orthographic adaptations or

orthographic mistakes?

Sverrir JakobssonCentre and Periphery in Icelandic

Medieval Discourse

Vilmos VoigtFurther Remarks on Ohthere’s

Beormas

Gudlaug NedrelidPersonar og tilnamn i Sverresoga.

Nokre diskutable punkt

Anna KaiperBoleslaw The Great, his father Mieszko, and Harald Fairhair – progenitors of royal dynasties

described in texts with a political message: Chronica Polonorum and

Haraldar saga hárfagra

Robert AvisWriting origins: the development of communal identity in some Old Norse foundation-myths and their

analogues in Guta saga

Amy C. Eichhorn-MulliganAnatomies off the Map: “Secret

and distant freaks” and the Authorization of Identity in Medieval Icelandic and Irish

Literature

Suzanne MartiKenn mér réttan veg til þess

kastala er Artús konungr sitr í: References to Kingship in the Old French Conte du Graal and its Old

Norse and Middle English Adaptations

LUNCH

COFFEE

Rolf StavnemAspects of editing skaldic verse.

The case of Hávarðar saga Ís�rðings

Ann-Dörte KyasBiðk hugstóra verðung hressfœrs

jöfurs heyra, hvé þolðak vás: Sigvatr’s Austrfararvísur between

praise poetry and lausavísur

Judith JeschThe Sea-Kings of Litla Skálda

Ilya V. SverdlovThough this be madness, yet

there’s method in’t: aspects of word order in skaldic kennings

Svante FischerNarrative Trajectories between

Nodal Points in the Cultural Landscape – The Eriksgata of King

Ingjald

Leszek SłupeckiPer sortes ac per equum.

Lot-casting and hippomancy in the North after saga narratives and

medieval chronicles

Carrie RoyComing to Grips with the Beast

NAMES AND SAGA IVRoom: XI

Chair: Ole Jørgen Johannessen

OPEN XVIIIRoom: IV

Chair: Carolyne Larrington

OPEN XIXRoom: IX

Chair: Gísli Sigurðsson

ARCHAEOLOGY IIIRoom: VIII

Chair: Jesse Byock

ORAL VIRoom: X

Chair: Stephen Mitchell

Theodore M. AnderssonThe Formation of the Kings’ Sagas

Fulvio FerrariFrom saga to Chronicle: Motif

Migration inside Medieval Scandinavia

Eldar HeideMore inroads to pre-Christian

notions, after all? The potential of late evidence

Else MundalKva kan vi vite om munnleg

tradisjon? (The presentation will be held in English)

6B

Guðvarður MárGunnlaugsson (& Vésteinn

Ólason)Introduction of a new electronic edition of Codex Regius of the

Poetic Edda


day 6:2, friday, 14Th auguST

13.30–14.00

14.05–14.35

14.40–15.10

15.15–16.00

18.00–

6C1

6C2

6C3

6D

Giovanna SalvucciBrenna at Upsôlum: the Denial of

Cosmos

Lise HvarregaardSaga-intertekstualitet i Einar Már Guðmundssons Fodspor på himlen

Michael Irlenbusch-Reynard

Die deutschsprachigen Fassungen und Verarbeitungen der

Jómsvíkinga saga von den 1920er bis zu den 1940er Jahren

Hans KuhnFrithjof and Röde Orm: Two

Swedish Viking impersonations

EVENING BANQUET


Chair: Terry GunnellLars Lönnroth

Old Norse Text as Performance

Andreas NordbergTime-reckoning, ritual time and the symbolism of numbers in Adam of

Bremen’s account of the great sacri�ce in Old Uppsala

Gísli SigurðssonThe Mental Map of Greenland in

the Icelandic Sagas

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

The World West of Iceland in Medieval Icelandic Oral Tradition

Bo GräslundEkki nýtr sólar. När himlen

färgades röd av gudarnas blod

ORAL VIIIRoom: X

Chair: Daniel Sävborg

OPEN XXRoom: VIII

Chair: Maria Cristina Lombardi

Savva MikheevEymundr, Ingigerðr, Yngvarr enn

víðförli, Anunder a Ruzzia: Swedish Princes in Russia in the

11th Century

Elena MelnikovaEymundar saga Hringssonar:

literary presentation of oral tradition

Michael SchulteGermanic alliteration and oral

theory

ORAL VIIRoom: IX

Chair: Kate Heslop

RUNE STONES IIRoom: IV

Chair: Rune Palm

Torun ZachrissonHåkon Jarl Ivarsson and Roðr

Jan Ragnar HaglandEgill Skalla-Grímssonr on the

Library Site in Trondheim?

Kristel ZilmerOn the symbiosis of orality and literacy in some Christian rune

stone inscriptions

6C OPEN XXIRoom: XI

Chair: Olof Sundqvist

Jens Peter SchjødtThe reconstruction of Old Norse

religion: aims and methods

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