The First International Saga Conference
Edinburgh
21—29 August 1971

Proceedings of the First International Saga Conference, University of Edinburgh, 1971, ed. by Peter Foote, Hermann Pálsson and Desmond Slay (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1973).

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• Preface.

1. Régis Boyer: The influence of Pope Gregory’s Dialogues on Old Icelandic literature.
2. Michael Chesnutt: Popular and learned elements in the Icelandic saga tradition.
3. George Clark: Beowulf and Njáls saga.
4. Robert Cook: The sagas of Icelanders as dramas of the will.
5. Christine Fell: The Old Norse version of the Book of Joshua.
6. Peter Hallberg: The concept of gipta—gæfa—hamingja in Old Norse literature.
7. Andrew Hamer: Legendary fiction in Flateyjarbók.
8. Jónas Kristjánsson: Elements of learning and chivalry in Fóstbræðrasaga.
9. Robert Kellogg: Sex and the vernacular in medieval Icelandic.
10. Hallvard Magerøy: The literary background of the account of Óspakr’s revenge in the Bandamanna saga.
11. Marina Mundt: Observations on the influence of Þiðriks saga on Icelandic saga writing.
12. John M. Simpson: Eyrbyggja saga and nineteenth-century scholarship.
13. Stefán Karlsson: Icelandic lives of Thomas à Becket: Questions of authorship.
14. A. B. Taylor: Orkneyinga saga — patronage and authorship.
15. R. George Thomas: Men and society in Hranfkels saga Freysgoða.
16. John van der Westhuizen: The sagas of Icelanders — possibilities of ethical criticism.

• List of participants.
• Minutes of the General meeting.