15th International Saga Conference, Literatura
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The 15th International Saga Conference
Sagas and the Use of the Past
5th –11th August 2012, Aarhus University
Preprint of Abstracts
Edited by
A. Mathias Valentin Nordvig and Lisbeth H. Toring
with Pernille Hermann, Jens Peter Schjødt and Ulla Loumand
Sponsored by:
A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene
Formaal; 15. juni Fonden; Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommuni-
kation (FKK); Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur;
Letterstedtska Föreningen; Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University; The De-
partment of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University; The
Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University; Salling; Bryg-
geriet Sct. Clemens.
Published by
Department of Aesthetics and Communication
Department of Culture and Society
Faculty of Arts
SUN-Tryk
Fællestrykkeriet for Sundhedsvidenskab og Humaniora, Aarhus Universitet
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Copyright © 2012, the Contributors.
ISBN: 978-87-995444-0-0
http://sagaconference.au.dk/ileadmin/sagaconference/Pre-print.pdf
The cover image is the so-called “Aarhus Mask”, a depiction on a ru-
nestone found in the district of Hasle in Aarhus. It has been dated to the
period 970-1020.
Design by Nichlas Tougaard, Det Nye Sort.
Preface
The theme of the 15th International Saga Conference, the 5th to the 11th of August,
2012, Aarhus University, is Sagas and the Use of the Past. Papers at the conference will
be presented in one of the following categories: Memory and Fiction, Myth and Reality,
Textuality and Manuscript Transmission, Genre and Concepts of History, Oral Tradi-
tion, The Christianisation of Denmark and Eastern Scandinavia, The Use of Sagas and
Eddas in the 21st Century and Open Session
Apart from the keynote lectures, orally-presented papers are organized in up to
6 parallel sessions on each day of the conference, in addition to which there are poster
presentations, which are presented on Thursday afternoon. The Preprint Publication is
principally meant to be a tool to assist participants in deciding which papers/posters to
attend.
Altogether the Preprint Publication includes abstracts of 4 keynote lectures, 3
individually themed sessions, 16 poster presentations and 201 papers. The word-limit
on abstracts for papers is 800 words, and for poster abstracts it is 2000. In the process
of editing, it has been the editors’ express purpose to retain the original formatting and
text of each contribution as it was intended by its author. The editors have only stan-
dardized titles, data on the contributors and the lay-out of the contributions, so that the
paper abstracts of 800 words will it on max. 2 pages and poster abstracts of 2000 words
it on max. 5 pages. The abstracts have not been proofread, nor has the language been
checked. The responsibility for each abstract rests solely with its author.
Aarhus University, June 2012
The editors
Contents
Keynotes
Driscoll, Matthew James
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Why Should We Care about rímur ?
.................................................................................................................14
Mitchell, Stephen
(Harvard University, USA)
Representing the Past in the Sagas: Relique or Blank Slate?
............................................................................16
Ney, Agneta
(University of Gävle, Sweden)
The Margins of the Bayeux Tapestry as a Source of the Past
...........................................................................18
Steinsland, Gro
(University of Oslo, Norway)
Myth, Memory and Rulership
...........................................................................................................................20
Posters
Baer, Trish
(University of Victoria, Australia)
Historical, Mythological, Pedagogical: MyNDIR and Illustrations of Norse Gods
.........................................22
Battista, Simonetta
(Københavns Universitet, Denmark)
Making New Texts from Old: The Use of Sources in the Old Norse Jóns saga postola
..................................23
Ciesielski, Łukasz
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Memory at the Cemeteries of Przeworsk Culture
.............................................................................................27
Crouwers, Iris
(University of Bergen, Norway)
Cross Monuments and the Christianization of Norway
....................................................................................31
Ellert Þór Jóhansson
(Københavns Universitet, Denmark)
Fixed Expressions, Variation and Change in Old Icelandic Diplomas
............................................................36
Ferreira, Annemari
(University of Oxford, England)
Power, Praise and Posterity – Oral Narratives of Naming in Viking Age Scandinavia
.................................37
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
(University of Iceland, Iceland) and
The Master Class of the Arnamagnean Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2008
(Iceland)
Editing
Þorsteins saga bæjarmagns
..................................................................................................................38
Leslie, Helen F.
(University of Bergen, Norway)
Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry: Snorra Edda and the
fornaldarsögur
...........................................................39
Narikawa, Takahiro
(Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan)
Dreams in Old Norse-Icelandic Royal Biographies as Representations of the Dynastic Identity:
The Case of the Fairhair Dynasty
......................................................................................................................44
Salvucci, Giovanna
(Università di Macerata, Italy)
; Maria Cristina Lombardi
(Università L’Orientale Napoli)
and
Simonetta Battista
(Københavns Universitet, Denmark)
Heimskringla
in Italian
.....................................................................................................................................49
Soffía Guðný Guðmundsdóttir
and
Laufey Guðnadóttir
(Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum and Námsgagnastofnun, Iceland)
Islandske middelalderhåndskrifter og norrøn kulturhistorie
.............................................................................50
Spejlborg, Marie Bønløkke
(Aarhus University, Denmark
)
Anglo-Danish Contacts c. 950-1100
.................................................................................................................51
Toring, Lisbeth Heidemann
(Aarhus University, Denmark)
Named Artefacts in the Sagas – a Remnant of the Past?
..................................................................................54
Watson, Matilda
(King’s College London, England)
Using Norwegian Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Period c. 1000-1300 to Study
Ecclesiastical Connections between England and Norway
...............................................................................55
Zeller, Peter
(University of Tübingen, Germany)
Social Change in the Archaic Greece and the Icelandic ’Free State’: Perspectives of a Diachronic
Comparison
......................................................................................................................................................57
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Zilmer, Kristel
(University of Bergen, Norway)
Parallel and Hybrid Uses of Runic and Roman Scripts
.....................................................................................58
Thematic Sessions
Battista, Simonetta, Alex Speed Kjeldsen
and
Þorbjörg Helgadóttir
(Ordbog over det norrøne
prosasprog/A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, Denmark)
Latest News from the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
......................................................................................59
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
(The Árni Magnússon Institute, Iceland);
Kristen Mills
(University of Toronto, Canada);
Elizabeth Walgenbach
(Yale University, USA);
Giselle Gos
(Harvard University, USA)
Gender in Medieval Scandinavian Texts: A Reevaluation
................................................................................60
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
,
Haraldur Bernharðsson
,
Ludger Zeevaert
,
Emily Lethbridge
,
Susanne M. Arthur
,
Margrét Eggertsdóttir
,
Þorsteinn Árnason Surmeli
and
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson
(Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Iceland)
The Variance of Njáls saga
................................................................................................................................62
Papers
Aalto, Sirpa
(University of Oulu, Finland)
The
Jómsvikinga saga
- Part of Old Norse Historiography?
............................................................................64
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
(University of Iceland, Iceland)
Of Wolves and Cranes in the Land of Geats
.....................................................................................................65
Ahola, Joonas
(University of Helsinki, Finland)
The Saga Outlaw and Conceptions of the Past
.................................................................................................66
Anderson, Joel
(Cornell University, USA)
Dispensation “By the Book:” Instrumentality and AM 671 4to
.......................................................................67
Andersson, Ted
(Indiana University, USA)
Sea Trafic in the Sagas
......................................................................................................................................69
Arkomani, Aliki-Anastasia
(University College London, England)
The
Humidum Radicale
and its Lexical Implications in Old Icelandic Texts
..................................................70
Arngrímur Vídalín
(Aarhus University/Háskóli Íslands, Denmark/Iceland)
The Supernatural Geography of the Middle Ages
............................................................................................71
Auður Ingvarsdóttir
Landnámabók
’s Contents and Character. Comparison of Narratives about Settlers and
their Offspring in
Landnámabók
and
Eyrbyggja saga
.....................................................................................72
Bagge, Sverre
(University of Bergen, Norway)
The Sagas and European Historiography
..........................................................................................................73
Baker, David
(University of Cambridge, England)
Learning from the Past: Knowledge, Memory, and the Use of the Legendary Past in
Háttalykill inn forni
..........................................................................................................................................74
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund
(University of Oxford, England)
Land-naming in the Migration Myth of Medieval Iceland: Constructing the Past in the Present and
the Present in the Past
.......................................................................................................................................76
Barreiro, Santiago
(CONICET - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Memory and Friendship: The Parting Gifts in
Egils saga
, Chapter 61
.............................................................77
Bek-Pedersen, Karen
(University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
The Sons of Síðu-Hallr
......................................................................................................................................78
Berg, Kirsten M.
(Åbo Universitet, Finland)
Viktorinsk innlytelse i den norrøne kirkedagsprekenen?
...............................................................................79
Bergdís Þrastardóttir
(Aarhus University, Denmark)
Deining the Medieval Icelandic
þættir
............................................................................................................81
Bertell, Maths
(Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Erik or Jonas? Taking in the New Faith and Mapping Christianity
..................................................................83
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