The Twelfth International Saga Conference
Bonn
28 July—2 August 2003

Scandinavia and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages: Papers of the 12^th International Saga Conference, Bonn/Germany, 28^th July—2^nd August 2003, ed. Rudolf Simek & Judith Meurer (Bonn, 2005).

1. Sirpa Aalto: Alienness in Heimskringla: Special emphasis on the Finnar.
2. Ármann Jakobsson: Two old ladies at Þváttá and history from below in the fourteenth century.
3. Sverre Bagge: Receiving, importing or producing culture? Research plan for the CoE on periphery and centre in Medieval Europe.
4. Geraldine Barnes: The drama of faith west of Iceland.
5. Simonette Battista: Old Norse hagiography and the question of the Latin sources.
6. Bergljót S. Kristjánsdóttir: Gunnlogi and Hræfrakki: Two ditties in the shorter version of the Saga of Gísli.
7. Régis Boyer: Bishop Guðmundr, once more!
8. Kersti Bruvoll: An Old Norse version of the legend of St. Margaret of Antioch.
9. Trine Buhl: Premises of literary history: On genre and narrative modes in the sagas.
10. Aleksandr Busygin: Sverrir and St Óláfr: Symbology of power in a saga dream.
11. Jesse Byock et al.: The Mosfell archaelogical project 2002 excavation.
12. David Clark: An eye for an eye?: The Church and revenge in saga literature.
13. Margaret Clunies Ross: Christian skaldic rhetoric in Einarr Gilsson’s Selkolluvísur.
14. Margaret Clunies Ross and Tarrin Wills: The skaldic project.
15. James Cochrane: Saying goodbye to the old religion: Dreaming of the rejected object of worship.
16. Carla Del Zotto: Vom rex iustus zum Märtyrer: Das Heldenparadigma der christlichen Könige zwischen Hagiographie und Geschichte in den mittelalterlichen Quellen über die Bekehrung Skandinaviens..
17. M. J. Driscoll: Postcards from the edge: An overview og marginalia in Icelandic manuscripts.
18. Alison Finlay: The garter of St Óláfr: Links between poets and kings.
19. Roberta Frank: Málsháttakvæði: A Norse poem from medieval Orkney.
20. Kari Ellen Gade: Norse attacks on England and Arnórr Jarlaskald’s Þórfinnsdrápa.
21. Richard Gaskins: Network dynamics in saga and society.
22. Galina Glazyrina: On Heliopolis in Yngvars saga víðfǫrla.
23. Gottskálk Þ. Jensson: The Latin fragments of Þorláks saga helga and their classical context.
24. Guðrún Nordal: Ars metrica and the composition of Egils saga.
25. Terry Gunnell: Höf, höll, goð(ar) and dvergar: Ritual space in the pagan Icelandic skáli.
26. Elena Gurevich: On a narrative device in some Íslendinga þættir.
27. Natalya Yu. Gvozdetskaya: Sanctity of a Christian king in Heimskringla in narratological perspective.
28. Jan Ragnar Hagland: On Rǫgnvalds þáttr ok Rauðs in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta and elsewhere.
29. Anna Hansen: The precocious child: A difficult thirteenth-century Icelandic saga ideal.
30. Helgi Þorláksson: Guðveldi og samtímasögur á 13. öld.
31. Bengt Holmström: Kring Skotkonungs landamäre.
32. Tatjana N. Jackson and Alexander V. Podossinov: The famous landvættir episode (ÓlTrygg33): A paradox of Icelandic religious consciousness?
33. Henrik Janson: What made the pagans pagans?
34. Judith Jesch: Old and new in Markús Skeggjason’s Eiríksdrápa.
35. Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson: Sonatorrek: Religious ideas and preservation.
36. Bengt R. Jonsson: Erik den Helige: Gammalt helgon i ny belysning.
37. Marianne Kalinke: Hendreks saga og Kunegundis and conselsuality in marriage.
38. John Kennedy: Scholarly book reviewing in the field of saga studies: Recent patterns and trends.
39. Henning Kure: In the beginning was the scream: Conceptual thought in the Old Norse myth and the pagan past.
40. Carolyne Larrington: Diet, defecation and the devil: Disgust and the pagan past.
41. Annette Lassen: Gud eller djævel? Kristningen af Odin.
42. Anatoly Liberman: Berserkir: A double legend.
43. Lars Lönnroth: The transformation of literary genres in Iceland form orality to literacy.
44. Inne Matyushina: On the imagery and style of riddarasögur.
45. Bernadine McCreesh: An examination of the prophecy motif in Old Icelandic literature.
46. John McKinnell: Völuspá and the feast of Easter (summary and examples).
47. John Megaard: The man who did not write the Edda: Sæmundr fróði and the birth of Icelandic literature.
48. Tomoaki Mizuno: Ring composition and circular narrative structure in Eddie poems.
49. Gunnar Nordanskog: The Volsung legend in Norwegian stave church portals — meaningless decoration or conscious use?
50. Richard North: Völuspá and the Book of Revelation.
51. Ólafía Einarsdóttir: Olaf Tryggvason — Rex Norwegiae 994-999: Christian ethics versus Teutonic heroism.
52. Carl Phelpstead: Masculinity and sexuality in sagas of Scandinavian royal saints.
53. Rosemary Power: Monks and politics in the Norse kingdom of the Isles.
54. Kees Samplonius: Glaðr Eggþér: Loki’s finest hour, or an outcast’s relief? Notes on the imagery of Vsp. 42-43.
55. Jens Peter Schjødt: Oðinn’s rolle og funktion i den nordiske mytologi.
56. Rolf Stavnem: Hvad er en sannkenning? Om en tvivlsom passage i Tredje Grammatiske Afhandling.
57. Daniel Sävborg: Medelhavskulturen och eddadiktningens forhistoria.
58. Matthew Townend: Like father, like son? Glælognskviða and the Anglo-Danish cult of saints.
59. Úlfar Bragason: Sturlunga’s text of Prestssaga Guðmundar góða.
60. Jens Ulff-Møller: The arithmetic in the royal land taxation of Iceland.
61. Fjodor B. Uspenskij: Christliche und heidnische Namen im mittelalterlichen Skandinavien: Magnus als Name für ein illegitimes Kind des Herrschers.
62. Vilmos Voigt: Hungarian glances to hagiography and the cult of saints in Scandinavia and in England.
63. Tarrin Wills: Theories of the antiquity of runes.
64. Kirsten Wolf: Kirkjubæjarbók: Codex AM 429 12mo.
65. Yelena Sesselja Helgadottir: Men’s laments: Christianization and the image of masculinity.
66. Kristel Zilmer: Representations of intercultural communication in the Sagas of Icelanders.
67. Anton Zimmerling: Bishop Guðmundr in Sturla Þórðarson’s Íslendinga saga: The cult of saints or the cult of personalities.