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Conference

The 14th Bergen International Postgraduate Symposium In Old Norse Studies 2023

The international symposium for postgraduate students of Old Norse studies is hosted annually by the University of Bergen, now back after a break due to the pandemic.

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Foto/ill.:
Zuzana Stankovitsová

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We're looking forward to three days of papers and one day of excursion. The details of the excursion will be announced shortly.

The conference will take place at Auditorium (Jusbygg II, Jektevikesbakken 31, Room 145)

The programme and abstract booklet is available for download as PDF below. There is a map of the locations in the booklet on p. 11.

Monday 17th April

Auditorium (Jusbygg II, Jektevikesbakken 31, Room 145)

10:15-10:30 Welcome

10:30-11:30 Keynote Lecture

Chair: Helen Leslie-Jacobsen (Universitetet i Bergen)

Irene Baug (Universitetet i Bergen)

Viking Age Urbanisation and Long-Distance Trade

11:30-12:30  Lunch

12:30-14:00 Session 1: Prophecies

Chair: Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge)

12:30-13:00 Francesca Squitieri (Durham University)

The Weaving of Threads: Towards a Collectivist Understanding of Fate in Scandinavian Culture

13:00-13:30 Saskia Cowan (Universitetet i Bergen)

Prophecies of Doom in Three Íslendingasögur

13:30-14:00 Samuel Masters (University of Nottingham)

Deceptive Dreams: Truth and Oraculum Structure in Gísla saga Súrssonar

14.00-14:30 Coffee

14:30-16:00 Session 2: Religious Discourses

Chair: David Ashurst (Durham University)

14:30-15:00 Natalia Radziwillowicz (University of Nottingham)

Religion as a Point of Neighbourly Contention: Christian and Heathen Entanglements between Scandinavians and Their Slavic Neighbours During the Tenth - Thirteenth Centuries

15:00-15:30 Davide Salmoiraghi (University of Cambridge)

A Neglected Church Father in the History of the Nordic Middle Ages: The Presence and Influence of St Ambrose of Milan in Medieval Iceland

15:30-16:00 Tom Hughes (Durham University)

Demonic Foresight in Antóníuss saga in Relation to Óðinn’s Hamfǫr in Ynglinga saga and the Gandus Episode of the Historia Norwegiæ

16.00-16:30 Coffee

16:30-17:30 Session 3: Legal Cultures

Chair: Jens Eike Schnall (Universitetet i Bergen)

16:30-17:00 Nikolaus Frenzel (University of Suffolk)

Legal Identity in Scandinavian-Scotland

17:00-17:30 Michele Roncarati (University of Nottingham)

Dogs and Wolves in Old Norse Law: A Matter of Agency

Tuesday 18th April

09:00-10.30 Session 4: Old Norse Myth and Reality I

Chair: David Ashurst (Durham University)                                        

09:00-09:30 Hilkea Blomeyer (Universität Tübingen)

Fylgði þér einn hvítabjarnarhúnn - The Mystery Behind the Polar Bear in Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts

09:30-10:00 Adrian Rodriguez (University of Cambridge)

Beyond the Textual Error: The Child Tor and the Karlavagn

10:00-10:30 Konstantinos Georgakopoulos (University of Innsbruck)

Rewriting the Magical Past as a Form of Conversion in Old Norse Literature

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:00 Session 5: Linguistic Approaches

Chair: Jens Eike Schnall (Universitetet i Bergen)

11:00-11:30 Celine Weisenfeld (Universitetet i Bergen)

The Development of the Gender System of the Bergen Dialect

11:30-12:00 Katrine Andersen (Universitetet i Bergen)

Quantity in Medieval Icelandic Poetic-Grammatical Literature

12:00-13:00   Lunch

13:00-15:00 Session 6: Old Norse Cultures I

Chair: Stefan Drechsler (Universitetet i Bergen)

13:00-13:30 Tom Fairfex (University of Nottingham)

The Forgotten Dynasty of Rǫgnvaldr Kolsson

13:30-14:00 Ambra Ventura (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Cold Counsel and Hot Bodies of Law: An Analysis of Women and Transgression in the Íslendingasögur

14:00-14:30 Josie Fairley Keast (University of Cambridge)

‘What's Life Got To Do With It?: Autobiographical Verse in Ǫrvar-Odds saga

14:30-15:00   Carla Schäffler (Universitetet i Bergen)

Place and Characterisation in the Translated Riddarasögur

15:00-15:30 Coffee

15:30-16:30 Session 7: Manuscripts

Chair: Helen Leslie-Jacobsen (Universitetet i Bergen)

15:30-16:00 Robert K. Paulsen (Universitetet i Bergen)

MenotaBlitz: A Private Passion Project Attracts Academic Attention

16:00-16:30 Hadrian Harms (University of Cambridge)

Compiling the Past in Iceland's Legendary Saga Manuscripts

Wednesday 19th April 

Manuskript og Librarsamlingen (HF-bygget, Sydneshaugen 7, 1. etasje)

09:00-10:00 University Library Special Collections exhibition

 

10:00-10:30   Walk to Auditorium (Jusbygg II, Jektevikesbakken 31, Room 145)

 

10:30-12:00 Session 8: Old Norse Myth and Reality II

Chair: Helen Leslie-Jacobsen (Universitetet i Bergen)

10:30-11:00 Sebastian Pohland (Universitetet i Bergen)

Monstrosity in Eddic Poetry

11:00-11:30 Emily Deag (University of Cambridge)

Bound by Blood: Old Norse Blood-Brotherhood and Sworn Oath in Myth and Reality

11:30-12:00 Adele Kreager (University of Cambridge)

Consumption, Cognition and Culpability in the Sigurðr-Cycle

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30  Session 9: Old Norse Cultures II

Chair: Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge)

13:00-13:30 Jonas Zeit-Altpeter (Universität Bonn)

Putting Norway on the Map. Discourses on Natura and the Old Norwegian Speculum Regale

13:30-14:00 Elizabeth Windisch (University of Aberdeen)

The Saga of Beer and Beef: Old Norse Feasting Culture and the Icelandic Settlement Story

14:00-14:30 Rebecca Drake (University of York)

‘Í valnum í fjörunni’ [‘Among the slain on the beach’]: Reading Beached Whales and Humans in Gríms saga Loðinkinna 

14.30-15:00 Coffee

15:00-16:00 Session 10: Charters

Chair: Stefan Drechsler (Universitetet i Bergen)

15:00-15:30 Tonje H. Waldersnes (Universitetet i Bergen)

Patterns in Writing- A Paleographic Analysis of Selected Norwegian Charters from 1300 to 1500.

15:30-16:00 Embla Aae (Universitetet i Bergen)

Sálugjafir and Sáluhjǫlp within the Medieval Church Province of Níðaróss: An Analysis of the Motivation and Documentation of Pious Provision, c. 1200–1537