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08-11-2009, 10:19 PM
The 13th International Saga Conference.. (http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.www/sagaconf/sagapps.htm)
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Sirpa Aalto (University of Joensuu, Finland) : Categorizing 'Otherness' in Heimskringla
Christopher Abram (University College London) : Snorri's Invention of Hermóðr's helreið
Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) : Viking Northumbria - the Non-Saga Evidence - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Háskóli Íslands) : On supernatural motifs in the fornaldarsögur
Carolyn B. Anderson (University of Wyoming) : Fantasy in Njal's Saga: History as Spectral Past
T.M. Andersson (Indiana University, Emeritus) : The Earliest Íslendinga saga: Another Candidate
Emily Archer (University of East Anglia / Institute of Historical Research, London) : 'It is generally thought that you are rather too poor': Saga Iceland, a Marriage Proposal, Rejection and the Reasons Why
Ármann Jakobsson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Giants of Bárðar saga
David Ashurst (University of Durham) : Imagining Paradise
Ásdís Egilsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Reality: Hagiography, Miracles and Fantasy (Plenary paper)
Auður Ingvarsdóttir : Hafði eg úr hvorri er framar greindi: Þróun í ritun Landnámabók
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Massimiliano Bampi (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia) : Between Tradition and Innovation: the Story of Starkaðr in Gautreks saga
Bjørn Bandlien (Universitetet i Oslo) : Cultural Contacts between England and Norway after the Conquest
Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) : Margin vs. Centre: Geopolitics in Nitida saga (a Cosmographical Comedy?)
Simonetta Battista (Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog, Københavns Universitet) : Andskoti, blámaðr, djöfull and fjándi: Representations of the Devil in Old Norse Translation Literature
Karen Bek-Pedersen (University of Edinburgh) : Are the Spinning Nornir just a Yarn? A Closer Look at Helgakviða Hundingsbana I 2-4
Chiara Benati (Universita Di Napoli L`Orientale) : The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Saga Ósvalds konúngs hins helga: Patterns and Functions
Yvonne S. Bonnetain (Schulmeistrat) : Riding the Tree
Ingvil Brügger Budal (Universitetet i Bergen) : A Translation of the Fantastic
Trine Buhl(Århus Universitet) : Illusions of Mimesis - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
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H.C. Carron (Emmanuel College Cambridge) : History and Þórðar saga kakala
Marlene Ciklamini (Rutgers University) : Folklore and Hagiography in Arngrímr's Guðmundar saga Arasonar
Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) : Poetry and Fornaldarsögur
Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney): Stylistic and Generic Definers of the Old Norse Skaldic Ekphrasis (Contribution for the Roundtable)
Jamie Cochrane : Land-Spirits and Iceland's Fantastical Pre-Conversion Landscape
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Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan, (University of Memphis) : Contextualizing Old Norse - Icelandic Bodies
Elín Bára Magnúsdóttir (Universitetet i Bergen) : An Ideological Struggle. An Interpretation of Eyrbyggja saga
Alexey Eremenko (University of Moscow) : The Dual World of the Fornaldarsögur
Thor Ewing : 'í litklæðum': Coloured Clothes in Medieval Scandinavian Literature and Archaeology
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Oren Falk (Cornell University) : Fragments of Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Folklore
Fulvio Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Trento) : Gods, Warlocks and Monsters in Örvar-Odds saga
Alison Finlay (Birkbeck College, London) : History and Fantasy in Jómsvíkinga saga
Frog (University College London)
Signe Horn Fuglesang (University of Oslo): Iconographic Traditions and Models in Scandinavian Imagery (Contribution for the Roundtable)
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Kari Ellen Gade (Indiana University) : 'Hôðr … sonr Óðins' - but did Snorri know that?
Gísli Sigurðsson (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Mental Map of the British Isles in the Icelandic Sagas
Gísli Pálsson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders ( with Astrid E.J. Ogilvie )
Galina Glazyrina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : Dragon Motifs in Yngvars saga víðförla
Siân Grønlie (St. Hilda's College, Oxford) : Miracles, Magic and Missionaries: the Supernatural in the Conversion þættir
Guðrún Nordal (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : To Dream or Not to Dream? The Varying Role of the Fantastic in the Rewriting of Sturlunga saga
Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Origin of Icelandic Script: Some Remarks
Fernando Guerrero (University of York) : Supernatural Drinking Horns
Terry Gunnell (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : How Elvish were the Álfar?
Elena Gurevich (Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Fantastic in Íslendinga þættir, with Special Emphasis on Þorsteins þáttr forvitna
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Jan Ragnar Hagland (NTNU Trondheim) : As You Like It? Narrative Units Recycled: Norðimbraland in Sequences of Saga Writing
Odd Einar Haugen (University of Bergen) : On the Diplomatic Turn in Editorial Philology
Eldar Heide (Universitetet i Bergen) : Spirits through Respiratory Passages
Helgi Skúli Kjartansson (Kennaraháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : English Models for King Harald Fairhair?
Helgi Þorláksson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Fourteenth Century
Pernille Hermann (University of Aarhus) : The Icelandic Sagas and the Real: Realism in Þorláks saga
Kate Heslop (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) : Assembling the Olaf-archive? Verses in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
Ann-Dörte Heynoldt (University of Kiel) : 'Draumar mínir villa oss': On the Use of the First Person Plural in Contexts of Individuals in Skaldic Stanzas
Bengt Holmström : 'Ego Cnuto' - a Winchester Document with Scandinavian Implications
Lise Hvarregaard (Københavns Universitet) : Sagaspor: Saga-intertekstualitet i Einar Már Guðmundssons forfatterskab
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Ingunn Ásdísardóttir : Frigg and Freyja: One Great Goddess or Two?
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Tatjana N. Jackson (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Fantastic in the Kings' Sagas
Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) : Norse Myths and Legends in Orkney
Karl G. Johansson (Universitetet i Oslo) : Hervarar Saga's Stanzas and the Manuscript that Met the Reader - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Vera Johanterwage (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) : The Use of Magic Spells and Objects in the Icelandic Riddarasögur
Jon Gunnar Jørgensen Universitetet i Oslo): Thormod Torfæus and his Use of Sagas in Historiæ Rerum Norvegicarum, 1711
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Marianne Kalinke (University of Illinois) : The Genesis of Fiction in the North Plenary Paper
Merrill Kaplan (University of California, Berkeley) : Out-Thoring Thor in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
Kári Gíslason (Kopavógur College) : The Fantastic in the Family Sagas: Implications for Saga Authorship
John Kennedy (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga) : The lslendingasögur and Ireland
Donata Kick (University of Durham) : Old Norse Translations of Ælfric's De Falsis Diis and De Auguriis in Hauksbók
Kjartan G. Ottósson (Universitetet i Oslo) : Árni Magnússons samling av skaldedikt i AM 761 a - b 4to
Jana Krüger (Universität Kiel) : fara í vestrvíking: Wikingfahrten mit dem Ziel britische Inseln in der altnordischen Literatur
Annette Kruhøffer : Thorkell the Tall
Hans Kuhn (Australian National University) : Þórðr hreða in Saga and Rímur
Henning Kure : The Doom of Ragnarok
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Carolyne Larrington (St. John's College, Oxford) : Loki's Children
Annette Lassen (Københavns universitet) : Hrafnagaldur Óðins / Forspjallsljóð - a Medieval Eddic Poem?
Philip Lavender (Jesus College, Oxford) : The Translation of Prophetic Imagery in Merlínusspá
Christina Lee (University of Nottingham) : 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death': Disease in the Sagas - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Emily Lethbridge (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) : Curses! Swords and Spears in the Versions of Gísla saga Súrssonar
Shannon Lewis-Simpson (Memorial University of Newfoundland) : The Role of Material Culture in the Literary Presentation of Greenland
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholms universitet): Kungaideologin i Sverris saga ("Royal Ideology in Sverris saga")
Maria Cristina Lombardi : The Travel of a Homily in Space and Time
Lars Lönnroth, (Göteborgs Universitet): Sverrir's Dreams
Emily Lyle (University of Edinburgh) : A Temporal Triad in Three Sagas
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Rikke Malmros (Aarhus Universitet) : Kristne fyrsteskjaldes syn på samfundet
Teodoro Manrique (Universidad de Salamanca) : 'Vinr em ek vinar míns': Guðrún Gjúkadóttir in Gísla saga and Íslendinga saga
Tommaso Marani (Università di Roma, 'La Sapienza') : The Roman Itinerary of Nikulás of Munkaþverá: between Reality and Imagination
Edith Marold (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) : Tannhäuser im Norden?
Marteinn H. Sigurðsson (Háskóli Íslands) : The Fantastic Feats of Master Perus of Arabia
Inna Matyushina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) : The Fantastic in Riddarasögur
Bernadine McCreesh (Université de Québec á Chicoutimi) : Elements of the Pagan Supernatural in the Bishops' Sagas
Rory McTurk (University of Leeds) : Kings and kingship in Viking Northumbria
John Megaard (Oslo) : Hva skrev Snorri?
Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University) : Perceptions of the Supernatural and Other Elements of the Fantastic in the Fornaldarsögur
Jakub Morawiec (University of Silesia, Katowice): Vinða myrðir, Vinðum háttr: Viking Raids on the Territory of Slavs in the Light of Skaldic Poetry
Else Mundal (Universitetet i Bergen) : The Treatment of the Supernatural and the Fantastic in Different Saga Genres
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Agneta Ney (University of Gävle) : Vatten som symbol och dikotomi i fornisländsk litteratur (The Edge of Water in Old Norse Literature)
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Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (University of Colorado at Boulder) : Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders ( with Gísli Pálsson)
Ólafía Einarsdóttir (Københavns Universitet) : The Venerable Bede: Father of the Western World's Chronology, and Grandfather of Icelandic Historical Writing
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Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University) : Historicizing Plausibility: The Anticipation of Disbelief in Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar
Cyril de Pins (Université de Paris 7, Denis-Diderot) : The Fantastical Theology of Snorri Sturluson: Something Strange about the Story…
Russell Poole (University of Western Ontario) : Counsel in Action in Hrafnkels saga
Edel Porter (University of Leeds) : Skaldic Poetry: Making the World Fantastic
Rosemary Power : Gaelic Love Tales in Iceland: a Case of Multiple Introduction?
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Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge) : The End of a Fantasy: Sôrla þáttr and the Rewriting of the Revivification Myth
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Reynir Þór Eggertsson (University College London) : The Griselda Story: The Transformation from 'the Patient Griselda' to 'Grishildur the Good' in Icelandic Tradition
Jonjo Roberts (University of Leeds) : Religious Visions and Christian Rule in Old Icelandic Romance
Gunnhild Røthe (Universitetet i Oslo) : The Fictitious Figure of Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr in the Saga Tradition
Philip Roughton (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : 'Þa syndi hann þeim mikinn skugga': Unmasking the Fantastic in the Postola Sögur
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe : Helpful Danes and Pagan Irishmen: Saga Fantasies of the Viking Age in the British Isles
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Giovanna Salvucci (University of Durham) : Between Heaven and Hell: the Konungasögur and the Emergence of the Idea of Purgatory
Christopher Sanders (Arnamagnæan Dictionary, Københavns Universitet) : Sturlaugs saga starfsama : Humour and Textual Archaeology
Jens Peter Schjødt (Aarhus Universitet) : The Notion of Berserkir and the Relation between Animals and Warriors
Jens Eike Schnall (Universität Bonn) : Rationalizing the Fantastic
Katja Schulz (Universität Göttingen / Universität Frankfurt am Main) : Trollweiber, Hundsköpfige und heidnische Priesterinnen in der Sturlaugs saga starfsama
Tatiana Shenyavskaya (Lomonosov State University, Moscow) : Mythological Accounts of Land-Taking in the Icelandic Conception of History
Rudolf Simek (Universität Bonn) : The Fantastic in Eddic Poetry and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Plenary paper) - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Leszek P. Slupecki (University of Warsaw) : Facts and Fancy in Jómsvíkinga saga
Rolf Stavnem(Københavns Universitet) : Fremstillingen af det fantastiske i Eyrbyggja saga - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Gro Steinsland (Universitetet i Oslo) : Den Fantastiske Fremtiden ('The Fantastic Future')
Nichole Sterling (University of California, Berkeley) : The North Sea Triangle: Iceland, England, and the Negotiation of Norway in the Sagas
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands) : Bede and his Disciples: The Development of Universal History in Iceland - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Ilya V. Sverdlov (Moscow State University) : Kenning Morphology: Towards a Formal Definition of the Skaldic Kenning, or Kennings and Adjectives
Sverrir Jakobsson (Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík) : On the Road to Paradise. 'Austrvegr' in the Icelandic Imagination
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Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen (Universitetet i Bergen) : Rethinking Eddic Orality Person and Performance in Völuspá and Hávamál
Clive Tolley : The Shamanic Seance Presented in the Historia Norwegiae
Torfi Tulinius (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Is Snorri goði an Icelandic Hamlet? On Dead Daddies and Fragmented Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga
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Úlfar Bragason (Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, Reykjavík) : 'Ekki er mark at draumum': The Fantastic in Íslendinga saga
Jens Ulff-Møller (St. Johns University, Queens, New York) : The Gaelic Impact on Churches in Iceland and Greenland
Fjodor Uspenskij (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Category of Affinity (Mágsemð) in the Old Norse Model of Family Relations
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Vésteinn Ólason (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Element in the Íslendingasögur (Plenary paper) - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Vilmos Voigt (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészettudományi Kar) : Skaldic poetry everywhere? (Is there any influence from skaldic poetry on literatures in other European languages?)
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Herbert Wäckerlin (Universität Zurich) : The Silence of Sigurðr þögli - Vox Articulata, Vox Humana and Vox Animalia in Sigurðar saga þögla
Andrew Wawn (University of Leeds) : Whatever Happened to Úlfs saga Uggasonar?
Jonas Wellendorf (Universitetet i Bergen) : Visions and the Fantastic
Lars van Wezel (University of Leiden) : Myths to Play with: Bósa saga ok Herrauðs
Diana Whaley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) : Skaldic Flexibility: Discourse Features in Eleventh-Century Encomia
Tarrin Wills (University of Sydney) : The Anonymous Verses in the Third Grammatical Treatise
Kendra Willson (University of California at Berkeley) : Króka-Refs saga as Science Fiction: Technology, Magic and the Materialist Hero
Kirsten Wolf (University of Wisconsin-Madison) : The Color Blue in Old Norse - Icelandic
Bryan Weston Wyly (Université de la Vallée d'Aoste) : 'Heita·sk hellor flióta hvatt sem korn á vatne': a Paradigm for Paradox in Kormákr Ôgmundarson's lausavísur
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Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir (Yershova) (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Draumvísur and draugavísur in Icelandic Sagas: The Border between Fantasy and Reality
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Anna Zanchi (University College London) : The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic?
Kristel Zilmer (University of Tartu) : Icelandic Sagas and the Narrative Tradition of Travelogue
Anton Zimmerling (Russian University of the Humanities, Moscow) : Hví fara heiðnir menn hér? Christian and Pagan Allusions in the Skaldic Poetry of the Thirteenth Century
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Þorleifur Hauksson (Reykjavík Academy) : Sverris saga and Early Saga Style
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Sirpa Aalto (University of Joensuu, Finland) : Categorizing 'Otherness' in Heimskringla
Christopher Abram (University College London) : Snorri's Invention of Hermóðr's helreið
Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) : Viking Northumbria - the Non-Saga Evidence - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Háskóli Íslands) : On supernatural motifs in the fornaldarsögur
Carolyn B. Anderson (University of Wyoming) : Fantasy in Njal's Saga: History as Spectral Past
T.M. Andersson (Indiana University, Emeritus) : The Earliest Íslendinga saga: Another Candidate
Emily Archer (University of East Anglia / Institute of Historical Research, London) : 'It is generally thought that you are rather too poor': Saga Iceland, a Marriage Proposal, Rejection and the Reasons Why
Ármann Jakobsson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Giants of Bárðar saga
David Ashurst (University of Durham) : Imagining Paradise
Ásdís Egilsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Reality: Hagiography, Miracles and Fantasy (Plenary paper)
Auður Ingvarsdóttir : Hafði eg úr hvorri er framar greindi: Þróun í ritun Landnámabók
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Massimiliano Bampi (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia) : Between Tradition and Innovation: the Story of Starkaðr in Gautreks saga
Bjørn Bandlien (Universitetet i Oslo) : Cultural Contacts between England and Norway after the Conquest
Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) : Margin vs. Centre: Geopolitics in Nitida saga (a Cosmographical Comedy?)
Simonetta Battista (Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog, Københavns Universitet) : Andskoti, blámaðr, djöfull and fjándi: Representations of the Devil in Old Norse Translation Literature
Karen Bek-Pedersen (University of Edinburgh) : Are the Spinning Nornir just a Yarn? A Closer Look at Helgakviða Hundingsbana I 2-4
Chiara Benati (Universita Di Napoli L`Orientale) : The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Saga Ósvalds konúngs hins helga: Patterns and Functions
Yvonne S. Bonnetain (Schulmeistrat) : Riding the Tree
Ingvil Brügger Budal (Universitetet i Bergen) : A Translation of the Fantastic
Trine Buhl(Århus Universitet) : Illusions of Mimesis - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
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H.C. Carron (Emmanuel College Cambridge) : History and Þórðar saga kakala
Marlene Ciklamini (Rutgers University) : Folklore and Hagiography in Arngrímr's Guðmundar saga Arasonar
Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) : Poetry and Fornaldarsögur
Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney): Stylistic and Generic Definers of the Old Norse Skaldic Ekphrasis (Contribution for the Roundtable)
Jamie Cochrane : Land-Spirits and Iceland's Fantastical Pre-Conversion Landscape
E
Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan, (University of Memphis) : Contextualizing Old Norse - Icelandic Bodies
Elín Bára Magnúsdóttir (Universitetet i Bergen) : An Ideological Struggle. An Interpretation of Eyrbyggja saga
Alexey Eremenko (University of Moscow) : The Dual World of the Fornaldarsögur
Thor Ewing : 'í litklæðum': Coloured Clothes in Medieval Scandinavian Literature and Archaeology
F
Oren Falk (Cornell University) : Fragments of Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Folklore
Fulvio Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Trento) : Gods, Warlocks and Monsters in Örvar-Odds saga
Alison Finlay (Birkbeck College, London) : History and Fantasy in Jómsvíkinga saga
Frog (University College London)
Signe Horn Fuglesang (University of Oslo): Iconographic Traditions and Models in Scandinavian Imagery (Contribution for the Roundtable)
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Kari Ellen Gade (Indiana University) : 'Hôðr … sonr Óðins' - but did Snorri know that?
Gísli Sigurðsson (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Mental Map of the British Isles in the Icelandic Sagas
Gísli Pálsson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders ( with Astrid E.J. Ogilvie )
Galina Glazyrina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : Dragon Motifs in Yngvars saga víðförla
Siân Grønlie (St. Hilda's College, Oxford) : Miracles, Magic and Missionaries: the Supernatural in the Conversion þættir
Guðrún Nordal (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : To Dream or Not to Dream? The Varying Role of the Fantastic in the Rewriting of Sturlunga saga
Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Origin of Icelandic Script: Some Remarks
Fernando Guerrero (University of York) : Supernatural Drinking Horns
Terry Gunnell (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : How Elvish were the Álfar?
Elena Gurevich (Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Fantastic in Íslendinga þættir, with Special Emphasis on Þorsteins þáttr forvitna
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Jan Ragnar Hagland (NTNU Trondheim) : As You Like It? Narrative Units Recycled: Norðimbraland in Sequences of Saga Writing
Odd Einar Haugen (University of Bergen) : On the Diplomatic Turn in Editorial Philology
Eldar Heide (Universitetet i Bergen) : Spirits through Respiratory Passages
Helgi Skúli Kjartansson (Kennaraháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : English Models for King Harald Fairhair?
Helgi Þorláksson (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Fourteenth Century
Pernille Hermann (University of Aarhus) : The Icelandic Sagas and the Real: Realism in Þorláks saga
Kate Heslop (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) : Assembling the Olaf-archive? Verses in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
Ann-Dörte Heynoldt (University of Kiel) : 'Draumar mínir villa oss': On the Use of the First Person Plural in Contexts of Individuals in Skaldic Stanzas
Bengt Holmström : 'Ego Cnuto' - a Winchester Document with Scandinavian Implications
Lise Hvarregaard (Københavns Universitet) : Sagaspor: Saga-intertekstualitet i Einar Már Guðmundssons forfatterskab
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Ingunn Ásdísardóttir : Frigg and Freyja: One Great Goddess or Two?
J
Tatjana N. Jackson (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Fantastic in the Kings' Sagas
Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham) : Norse Myths and Legends in Orkney
Karl G. Johansson (Universitetet i Oslo) : Hervarar Saga's Stanzas and the Manuscript that Met the Reader - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Vera Johanterwage (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) : The Use of Magic Spells and Objects in the Icelandic Riddarasögur
Jon Gunnar Jørgensen Universitetet i Oslo): Thormod Torfæus and his Use of Sagas in Historiæ Rerum Norvegicarum, 1711
K
Marianne Kalinke (University of Illinois) : The Genesis of Fiction in the North Plenary Paper
Merrill Kaplan (University of California, Berkeley) : Out-Thoring Thor in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
Kári Gíslason (Kopavógur College) : The Fantastic in the Family Sagas: Implications for Saga Authorship
John Kennedy (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga) : The lslendingasögur and Ireland
Donata Kick (University of Durham) : Old Norse Translations of Ælfric's De Falsis Diis and De Auguriis in Hauksbók
Kjartan G. Ottósson (Universitetet i Oslo) : Árni Magnússons samling av skaldedikt i AM 761 a - b 4to
Jana Krüger (Universität Kiel) : fara í vestrvíking: Wikingfahrten mit dem Ziel britische Inseln in der altnordischen Literatur
Annette Kruhøffer : Thorkell the Tall
Hans Kuhn (Australian National University) : Þórðr hreða in Saga and Rímur
Henning Kure : The Doom of Ragnarok
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Carolyne Larrington (St. John's College, Oxford) : Loki's Children
Annette Lassen (Københavns universitet) : Hrafnagaldur Óðins / Forspjallsljóð - a Medieval Eddic Poem?
Philip Lavender (Jesus College, Oxford) : The Translation of Prophetic Imagery in Merlínusspá
Christina Lee (University of Nottingham) : 'Cast a cold eye on life, on death': Disease in the Sagas - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Emily Lethbridge (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) : Curses! Swords and Spears in the Versions of Gísla saga Súrssonar
Shannon Lewis-Simpson (Memorial University of Newfoundland) : The Role of Material Culture in the Literary Presentation of Greenland
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholms universitet): Kungaideologin i Sverris saga ("Royal Ideology in Sverris saga")
Maria Cristina Lombardi : The Travel of a Homily in Space and Time
Lars Lönnroth, (Göteborgs Universitet): Sverrir's Dreams
Emily Lyle (University of Edinburgh) : A Temporal Triad in Three Sagas
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Rikke Malmros (Aarhus Universitet) : Kristne fyrsteskjaldes syn på samfundet
Teodoro Manrique (Universidad de Salamanca) : 'Vinr em ek vinar míns': Guðrún Gjúkadóttir in Gísla saga and Íslendinga saga
Tommaso Marani (Università di Roma, 'La Sapienza') : The Roman Itinerary of Nikulás of Munkaþverá: between Reality and Imagination
Edith Marold (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) : Tannhäuser im Norden?
Marteinn H. Sigurðsson (Háskóli Íslands) : The Fantastic Feats of Master Perus of Arabia
Inna Matyushina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) : The Fantastic in Riddarasögur
Bernadine McCreesh (Université de Québec á Chicoutimi) : Elements of the Pagan Supernatural in the Bishops' Sagas
Rory McTurk (University of Leeds) : Kings and kingship in Viking Northumbria
John Megaard (Oslo) : Hva skrev Snorri?
Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University) : Perceptions of the Supernatural and Other Elements of the Fantastic in the Fornaldarsögur
Jakub Morawiec (University of Silesia, Katowice): Vinða myrðir, Vinðum háttr: Viking Raids on the Territory of Slavs in the Light of Skaldic Poetry
Else Mundal (Universitetet i Bergen) : The Treatment of the Supernatural and the Fantastic in Different Saga Genres
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Agneta Ney (University of Gävle) : Vatten som symbol och dikotomi i fornisländsk litteratur (The Edge of Water in Old Norse Literature)
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Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (University of Colorado at Boulder) : Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders ( with Gísli Pálsson)
Ólafía Einarsdóttir (Københavns Universitet) : The Venerable Bede: Father of the Western World's Chronology, and Grandfather of Icelandic Historical Writing
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Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University) : Historicizing Plausibility: The Anticipation of Disbelief in Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar
Cyril de Pins (Université de Paris 7, Denis-Diderot) : The Fantastical Theology of Snorri Sturluson: Something Strange about the Story…
Russell Poole (University of Western Ontario) : Counsel in Action in Hrafnkels saga
Edel Porter (University of Leeds) : Skaldic Poetry: Making the World Fantastic
Rosemary Power : Gaelic Love Tales in Iceland: a Case of Multiple Introduction?
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Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge) : The End of a Fantasy: Sôrla þáttr and the Rewriting of the Revivification Myth
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Reynir Þór Eggertsson (University College London) : The Griselda Story: The Transformation from 'the Patient Griselda' to 'Grishildur the Good' in Icelandic Tradition
Jonjo Roberts (University of Leeds) : Religious Visions and Christian Rule in Old Icelandic Romance
Gunnhild Røthe (Universitetet i Oslo) : The Fictitious Figure of Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr in the Saga Tradition
Philip Roughton (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : 'Þa syndi hann þeim mikinn skugga': Unmasking the Fantastic in the Postola Sögur
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe : Helpful Danes and Pagan Irishmen: Saga Fantasies of the Viking Age in the British Isles
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Giovanna Salvucci (University of Durham) : Between Heaven and Hell: the Konungasögur and the Emergence of the Idea of Purgatory
Christopher Sanders (Arnamagnæan Dictionary, Københavns Universitet) : Sturlaugs saga starfsama : Humour and Textual Archaeology
Jens Peter Schjødt (Aarhus Universitet) : The Notion of Berserkir and the Relation between Animals and Warriors
Jens Eike Schnall (Universität Bonn) : Rationalizing the Fantastic
Katja Schulz (Universität Göttingen / Universität Frankfurt am Main) : Trollweiber, Hundsköpfige und heidnische Priesterinnen in der Sturlaugs saga starfsama
Tatiana Shenyavskaya (Lomonosov State University, Moscow) : Mythological Accounts of Land-Taking in the Icelandic Conception of History
Rudolf Simek (Universität Bonn) : The Fantastic in Eddic Poetry and the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Plenary paper) - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Leszek P. Slupecki (University of Warsaw) : Facts and Fancy in Jómsvíkinga saga
Rolf Stavnem(Københavns Universitet) : Fremstillingen af det fantastiske i Eyrbyggja saga - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Gro Steinsland (Universitetet i Oslo) : Den Fantastiske Fremtiden ('The Fantastic Future')
Nichole Sterling (University of California, Berkeley) : The North Sea Triangle: Iceland, England, and the Negotiation of Norway in the Sagas
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands) : Bede and his Disciples: The Development of Universal History in Iceland - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Ilya V. Sverdlov (Moscow State University) : Kenning Morphology: Towards a Formal Definition of the Skaldic Kenning, or Kennings and Adjectives
Sverrir Jakobsson (Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík) : On the Road to Paradise. 'Austrvegr' in the Icelandic Imagination
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Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen (Universitetet i Bergen) : Rethinking Eddic Orality Person and Performance in Völuspá and Hávamál
Clive Tolley : The Shamanic Seance Presented in the Historia Norwegiae
Torfi Tulinius (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Is Snorri goði an Icelandic Hamlet? On Dead Daddies and Fragmented Heroism in Eyrbyggja saga
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Úlfar Bragason (Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, Reykjavík) : 'Ekki er mark at draumum': The Fantastic in Íslendinga saga
Jens Ulff-Møller (St. Johns University, Queens, New York) : The Gaelic Impact on Churches in Iceland and Greenland
Fjodor Uspenskij (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) : The Category of Affinity (Mágsemð) in the Old Norse Model of Family Relations
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Vésteinn Ólason (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi, Reykjavík) : The Fantastic Element in the Íslendingasögur (Plenary paper) - preprint of paper not supplied - please see abstract
Vilmos Voigt (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészettudományi Kar) : Skaldic poetry everywhere? (Is there any influence from skaldic poetry on literatures in other European languages?)
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Herbert Wäckerlin (Universität Zurich) : The Silence of Sigurðr þögli - Vox Articulata, Vox Humana and Vox Animalia in Sigurðar saga þögla
Andrew Wawn (University of Leeds) : Whatever Happened to Úlfs saga Uggasonar?
Jonas Wellendorf (Universitetet i Bergen) : Visions and the Fantastic
Lars van Wezel (University of Leiden) : Myths to Play with: Bósa saga ok Herrauðs
Diana Whaley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) : Skaldic Flexibility: Discourse Features in Eleventh-Century Encomia
Tarrin Wills (University of Sydney) : The Anonymous Verses in the Third Grammatical Treatise
Kendra Willson (University of California at Berkeley) : Króka-Refs saga as Science Fiction: Technology, Magic and the Materialist Hero
Kirsten Wolf (University of Wisconsin-Madison) : The Color Blue in Old Norse - Icelandic
Bryan Weston Wyly (Université de la Vallée d'Aoste) : 'Heita·sk hellor flióta hvatt sem korn á vatne': a Paradigm for Paradox in Kormákr Ôgmundarson's lausavísur
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Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir (Yershova) (Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík) : Draumvísur and draugavísur in Icelandic Sagas: The Border between Fantasy and Reality
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Anna Zanchi (University College London) : The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic?
Kristel Zilmer (University of Tartu) : Icelandic Sagas and the Narrative Tradition of Travelogue
Anton Zimmerling (Russian University of the Humanities, Moscow) : Hví fara heiðnir menn hér? Christian and Pagan Allusions in the Skaldic Poetry of the Thirteenth Century
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Þorleifur Hauksson (Reykjavík Academy) : Sverris saga and Early Saga Style
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