The 13th Bergen International Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies 2019
The symposium for postgraduate students of Old Norse is hosted annually by the University of Bergen. Initiated by Professor Else Mundal under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, it is now organized by the Old Norse section of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.
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Each year MA and PhD students are invited from Bergen and several other universities to present their research to their peers, gaining experience in writing papers and public speaking, and getting the opportunity to meet students at the equivalent academic stage.
The academic programme will take place on the 8th to the 10th of April at the University of Bergen. The location for all three days is the Law Faculty (Jusbygget, Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1), Auditorium 3.
On Thursday the 11th April there will be an excursion to museums in Bergen to which all speakers are invited.
All are welcome to listen to the papers and participate in the discussion free of charge. For registration please fill out the following form https://forms.gle/9BEMyzfPoMPpwnfe8
For current weather forecast see https://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Hordaland/Bergen/Bergen/langtidsvarsel.html
Monday 8th April
08.30 - 09.00: Registration
09.00 - 09:15: Opening address by Jørgen Sejersted, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
1. Manuscript Witnesses I – Heather O’Donoghue
09.15 - 09.45 Zuzana Stankovitsová (Bergen), Adjust and Adapt: Post-Medieval Revisions to the Medieval Saga Text
09.45 - 10.15 Alisa Valpola-Walker (Cambridge), Memory, Intertextuality and Geography in Göngu-Hrólfs saga
10.15 - 10.45 Tom Lorenz (Bergen), Did Danish nuns pray in Middle Low German? – Material, Textual and Linguistic Composition of AM 70 4to
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
2. Manuscript Witnesses II – Odd Einar Haugen
11.15 - 11.45 Sven Kraus (Frankfurt/Berlin), Pamphilus Saga: Provenance and Mode of Translation
11.45 – 12.15 Nina Stensaker (Bergen), Bits and Pieces: A Study of Scribes in a Corpus of Old Norse Literary Fragments
12.15 – 12.45 Paola Peratello (Venice), Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo): A Pilot Project for Encoding a Runic Manuscript
12.45 - 14.30 Lunch in Christie Café, Muséplassen 3
3. Magic and Rituals – David Ashurst
14.30 - 15.00 Paul Tan (Durham), Foretelling in the fornaldarsögur
15.00 - 15.30 Sam Ashby-Crane (Oxford), Eating Hearts and Drinking Blood: Saga Heroes and the Abject in Hrólfs saga kraka and Völsunga saga
15.30 - 16.00 Jennifer Hemphill (Aberdeen), Weather Magic in the Medieval Far North
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
4. Mythology – Jan Kozák
16.30 - 17.00 Kara Kersh (Aberdeen), Truly Tricky? Examining the Role of Loki as a Trickster Character
17.00 - 17.30 William Brockbank (Oxford), Þeir er miðgarð, mœran, scópo: Re-shaping our Understanding of Norse Cosmic Space
17:30 - 18:00 MSCA - Information about Individual Fellowship call 2019
Tuesday 9th April
5. Norsemen on the Move – Lesley Abrams
09.00 - 09.30 Nicola Shearer (Aberdeen), The political structures of Viking Age North Britain in comparison with Scandinavian political structures
09.30 - 10.00 Cassidy Croci (Nottingham), A New Method for the (Land)-taking: Social Network Analysis and Landnámabók
10.00 - 10.30 Ingrid Hegland (Aberdeen), The Vikings in Ireland: Barbarians or Economically Strained Leaders and Businessmen?
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
6. Northern Identities – Helen F. Leslie
11.00 - 11.30 Solveig M. Wang (Aberdeen), Indigenous Presence, Spatial Relations and Questions of Identity: Some Observations from Egils saga Skallagrímssonar
11.30 - 12.00 Patrick Farrugia (Bergen), Breta Sögur: Why Claim the Trojans Were in Thule?
12.00 - 12.10 Short break
7. Words of Love - Ruarigh Dale
12.10 - 12.40 Isabella Clarke (Oxford), Women as Lovers and Warriors in Old Norse Literature
12.40 - 13.10 Lee Colwill (Cambridge), Poetic Identity and Poetic Address: The Function of Mansöngvar in Medieval Rímur
13.10 - 14.30 Lunch
8. Anger and Strife – Judy Quinn
14.30 - 15.00 George Manning (Oxford), Ekki hǫfu vér kvenna skap […] at vér reiðimsk við ǫllu: Anger and Femininity in the Íslendingasögur
15.00 - 15.30 Bond West (Oxford), Fraternal Strife and Northern History and World History
15.30 - 16.00 Kathryn Haley-Halinski (Cambridge), 'Bear Your Devil Yourself': The Raven Banner in Medieval Literature
16.00 - 18.30 Free Time
18.30 Conference Dinner (Zupperia, Vaskerelven 12 - vegetarian and vegan menu available)
Wednesday 10th April
9. A Distant Mirror – Jens Eike Schnall
09.15 - 09.45 Will Raybould (Durham), Konungs skuggsjá and the Norwegian Aristocracy
09.45 - 10.15 Juliane Tiemann (Bergen), The Object Position in Old Norwegian: Examining Information Structural Influence on Word Order Variation in the KoNoKs-Corpus
10.15 - 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 11.00 Walk over to the Special Collections
11.00 – 12.30 Visit to the Special Collections
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
10. Poetry I – Hannah Burrows
14.00 - 14.30 Francesco Colombo (Cambridge), The Prosimetrum of the Helgi and the Young Sigurðr Sections of the Codex Regius
14.30 - 15.00 Leiv Olsen (Bergen), When Did Unstressed Prefixes Disappear in Old Norse?
15.00 - 15.30 Katie Harling-Lee (Durham), The Creative Possibilities of Guðrún's Emotional Ambiguity in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Translations of the Poetic Edda
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
11. Poetry II – Brittany Schorn
16.00 - 16.30 Christopher Mawford (Nottingham), Death and Wisdom: A study of their proximity in Hávamál
16.30 - 17.00 James McIntosh (Cambridge), An Overgenerous Lord? Irony and the Kennings of Plácitusdrápa
17.00 - 17.30 Matthew Gan (Durham), Old Norse Literature and the Art of Vomiting
