The Thirteenth International Saga Conference

The Thirteenth International Saga Conference
Durham / York
6—12 August 2006

The Fantastic in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
Sagas and the British Isles

The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature: Preprint Papers of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham and York 6th-12th August 2006, I-II, ed. John McKinnell, David Ashurst and Donata Kick (Durham: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006).

  1. Sirpa Aalto: Categorizing otherness in Heimskringla.
  2. Christopher Abram: Snorri’s invention of Hermóðr’s helreið.
  3. Lesley Abrams: Viking Northumbria — the non-saga evidence (abstract).
  4. Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir: On supernatural motifs in the fornaldarsǫgur.
  5. Carolyn B. Anderson: Fantasy in Njal’s saga: History as spectral past (abstract).
  6. T.M. Andersson: The earliest Íslendinga saga: Another candidate.
  7. Emily Archer: It is generally thought that you are rather too poor: Saga Iceland, a marriage proposal, rejection and the reasons why (abstract).
  8. Ármann Jakobsson: The good, the bad and the ugly: Bárðar saga and its giants.
  9. David Ashurst: Imagining paradise.
  10. Ásdís Egilsdóttir: The fantastic reality: Hagiography, miracles and fantasy (Plenary paper).
  11. Auður Ingvarsdóttir: Hafði eg ór hvorri er framar greindi: Þróun í ritun Landnámabókar.
  12. Massimiliano Bampi: Between tradition and innovation: The story of Starkaðr in Gautreks saga.
  13. Bjørn Bandlien: Cultural contacts between England and Norway after the Conquest.
  14. Geraldine Barnes: Margin vs. centre: Geopolitics in Nitida saga (A cosmographical comedy?).
  15. Simonetta Battista: Blámaðr, djǫflar and other representations of evil in Old Norse translation literature.
  16. Karen Bek-Pedersen: Are the spinning nornir just a yarn? A closer look at Helgakviða Hundingsbana I 2-4.
  17. Chiara Benati: The fantastic and the supernatural in the Saga Ósvalds konúngs hins helga: Patterns and functions.
  18. Yvonne S. Bonnetain: Riding the tree.
  19. Ingvil Brügger Budal: A translation of the fantastic.
  20. Trine Buhl: Illusions of mimesis (abstract).
  21. Jesse Byock: Recent excavations in Mosfellsdalur (abstract).
  22. H.C. Carron: History and Þórðar saga kakala.
  23. Marlene Ciklamini: Folklore and hagiography in Arngrímr’s Guðmundar saga Arasonar.
  24. Margaret Clunies Ross: Poetry and fornaldarsǫgur.
  25. Jamie Cochrane: Land-spirits and Iceland’s fantastic pre-conversion landscape.
  26. Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan,: Contextualizing Old Norse-Icelandic bodies.
  27. Elín Bára Magnúsdóttir: An ideological struggle: An interpretation of Eyrbyggja saga.
  28. Alexey Eremenko: The dual world of the fornaldarsǫgur.
  29. Thor Ewing: í litklæðum: Coloured clothes in medieval Scandinavian literature and archaeology.
  30. Oren Falk: Fragments of fourteenth-century Icelandic folklore.
  31. Fulvio Ferrari: Gods, warlocks and monsters in Ǫrvar-Odds saga.
  32. Alison Finlay: History and fantasy in Jómsvíkinga saga.
  33. Frog: Recognizing mythic images in fantastic literature: Reading Baldrs draumar 12-14.
  34. Kari Ellen Gade: Hǫðr … sonr Óðins — but did Snorri know that?
  35. Gísli Sigurðsson: The mental map of the British Isles in the Icelandic sagas.
  36. Gísli Pálsson and Astrid E.J. Ogilvie: Weather and witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders.
  37. Galina Glazyrina: Dragon motifs in Yngvars saga víðfǫrla.
  38. Siân Grønlie: Miracles, magic and missionaries: The supernatural in the conversion þættir.
  39. Guðrún Nordal: To dream or not to dream? A question of method.
  40. Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: The origin of Icelandic script: Some remarks.
  41. Fernando Guerrero: Supernatural drinking horns (abstract).
  42. Terry Gunnell: How elvish were the álfar?
  43. Natalya Gvozdetskaya: The myth of Valkyries and the female characters of the heroic lays of the Elder Edda (abstract).
  44. Jan Ragnar Hagland: As you like it? Narrative units recycled: Norðimbraland in sequences of saga writing.
  45. Odd Einar Haugen: On the diplomatic turn in editorial philology.
  46. Eldar Heide: Spirits through respiratory passages.
  47. Helgi Skúli Kjartansson: English models for King Harald fairhair?
  48. Helgi Þorláksson: The fantastic fourteenth century.
  49. Pernille Hermann: The Icelandic sagas and the real: Realism in Þorláks saga.
  50. Kate Heslop: Assembling the Olaf-archive? Verses in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta.
  51. Ann-Dörte Heynoldt: Draumar mínir villa oss: On the use of the first person plural in contexts of individuals in skaldic stanzas.
  52. Bengt Holmström: Ego Cnuto — a Winchester document with Scandinavian implications.
  53. Lise Hvarregaard: Sagatræ i Einar Már Guðmundssons Universets engle.
  54. Ingunn Ásdísardóttir: Frigg and Freyja: One great goddess or two?
  55. Tatjana N. Jackson: The fantastic in the Kings’ sagas.
  56. Judith Jesch: Norse myths and legends in medieval Orkney.
  57. Karl G. Johansson: Hervarar saga’s stanzas and the manuscript that met the reader (abstract).
  58. Vera Johanterwage: The use of magic spells and objects in the Icelandic riddarasögur: Rémundar saga keisarasonar and Viktors saga ok Blávus.
  59. Jon Gunnar Jørgensen: Thormod Torfæus og det fantaskiske i sagalitteraturen.
  60. Marianne Kalinke: The genesis of fiction in the north (Plenary paper).
  61. Merrill Kaplan: Out-Thoring Thor in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta.
  62. Kári Gíslason: The fantastic in the Family sagas: Implications for saga authorship.
  63. John Kennedy: The Íslendingasǫgur and Ireland.
  64. Donata Kick: Old Norse translations of Ælfric’s De falsis diis and De auguriis in Hauksbók (abstract).
  65. Kjartan G. Ottósson: Árni Magnússons samling av skaldedikt i AM 761 a — b 4to.
  66. Jana Krüger: fara í vestrvíking: Wikingfahrten mit dem Ziel britische Inseln in den altnordischen Konungasǫgur.
  67. Annette Kruhøffer: Thorkell the tall — A key figure in the story of King Cnut.
  68. Hans Kuhn: Þórðr hreða in saga and rímur.
  69. Henning Kure: Drinking from Odin's pledge: On an encounter with the fantastic in Vǫluspá 28-29.
  70. Carolyne Larrington: Loki’s children.
  71. Annette Lassen: Hrafnagaldur Óðins / Forspjallsljóð — Et antikvarisk digt?
  72. Philip Lavender: The translation of prophetic imagery in Merlínusspá (abstract).
  73. Christina Lee: Cast a cold eye on life, on death: Disease in the sagas (abstract).
  74. Emily Lethbridge: Curses! Swords, spears and the supernatural in the versions of Gísla saga Súrssonar.
  75. Shannon Lewis-Simpson: The role of material culture in the literary presentation of Greenland.
  76. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Kungaideologin i Sverris saga.
  77. Maria Cristina Lombardi: The travel of a homily in space and time: The Old Norse translation of Ælfric’s De falsis diis.
  78. Lars Lönnroth,: Sverrir’s dreams.
  79. Emily Lyle: A temporal triad in three sagas.
  80. Rikke Malmros: Kristne fyrsteskjaldes syn på samfundet.
  81. Teodoro Manrique Antón: Vinr em ek vinar míns: Guðrún Gjúkadóttir in Gísla saga and Íslendinga saga.
  82. Tommaso Marani: The Roman itinerary of Nikulás of Munkaþverá: Between reality and imagination.
  83. Edith Marold: Tannhäuser im Norden?
  84. Marteinn H. Sigurðsson: The fantastic feats of Master Perus of Arabia (abstract).
  85. Inna Matyushina: Magic mirrors, monsters, maiden-kings: The fantastic in riddarasögur.
  86. Bernadine McCreesh: Elements of the pagan supernatural in the Bishops’ sagas.
  87. Rory McTurk: Kings and kingship in Viking Northumbria.
  88. John Megaard: Hva skrev Snorri?
  89. Stephen Mitchell: Perceptions of the supernatural and other elements of the fantastic in the fornaldarsögur.
  90. Jakub Morawiec: Vinða myrðir, Vinðum háttr: Viking raids on the territory of Slavs in the light of skaldic poetry.
  91. Else Mundal: The treatment of the supernatural and the fantastic in different saga genres.
  92. Agneta Ney: The edge of water in Old Norse myth and reality.
  93. Ólafía Einarsdóttir: The venerable Bede: Father of the western world’s chronology, and grandfather of Icelandic historical writing.
  94. Carl Phelpstead: Historicizing plausibility: The anticipation of disbelief in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar.
  95. Cyril de Pins: The fantastical theology of Snorri Sturluson: A reading of the Prologue of Snorra Edda.
  96. Russell Poole: Counsel in action in Hrafnkels saga.
  97. Edel Porter: Skaldic poetry: Making the world fantastic.
  98. Rosemary Power: Gaelic love tales in Iceland: A case of multiple introduction?
  99. Judy Quinn: The end of a fantasy: Sǫrla þáttr and the rewriting of the revivification myth.
  100. Reynir Þór Eggertsson: The Griselda story: The transformation from the patient Griselda to Gríshildur the good in Icelandic tradition.
  101. Jonjo Roberts: Religious visions and Christian rule in Old Icelandic romance.
  102. Gunnhild Røthe: The fictitious figure of Þorgerðr Hǫlgabrúðr in the saga tradition.
  103. Philip Roughton: Þa syndi hann þeim mikinn skugga: Unmasking the fantastic in the Postola sögur.
  104. Elizabeth Ashman Rowe: Helpful Danes and pagan Irishmen: Saga fantasies of the Viking Age in the British Isles.
  105. Giovanna Salvucci: Between heaven and hell: The konungasǫ;gur and the emergence of the idea of Purgatory.
  106. Christopher Sanders: Sturlaugs saga starfsama: Humour and textual archaeology.
  107. Jens Peter Schjødt: The notion of berserkir and the relation between Óðinn and animal warriors.
  108. Jens Eike Schnall: Rationalizing the fantastic (abstract).
  109. Katja Schulz: Trollweiber, Hundsköpfige und heidnische Priesterinnen — Vom fantastischen Spiel mei Literarischen Genres in der Sturlaugs saga starfsama.
  110. Tatiana Shenyavskaya: Mythological accounts of land-taking in the Icelandic conception of history (abstract).
  111. Rudolf Simek: The fantastic in Eddic poetry and the renaissance of the twelfth century (Plenary paper, abstract).
  112. Leszek P. Slupecki: Facts and fancy in Jómsvíkinga saga.
  113. Blazej Stanislawski: Jómsvíkinga saga and archaeology: The presence of Scandinavians in Wollin as source for the legends (abstract).
  114. Rolf Stavnem: Fremstillingen af det fantastiske i Eyrbyggja saga (abstract).
  115. Gro Steinsland: The fantastic future and the Norse sibyl of Vǫluspá.
  116. Nichole Sterling: The North Sea triangle: Iceland, England and the negotiation of Norway in the sagas.
  117. Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir: Bede and his disciples: The development of universal history in Iceland (abstract).
  118. Ilya V. Sverdlov: Kenning morphology: Towards a formal definition of the skaldic kenning, or kennings and adjectives.
  119. Sverrir Jakobsson: On the road to Paradise: Austrvegr in the Icelandic imagination.
  120. Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen: The double scene in performance: Deictic blending in Völuspá?
  121. Clive Tolley: The Historia Norwegiae as a shamanic source.
  122. Torfi Tulinius: Is Snorri goði an Icelandic Hamlet? On dead fathers and problematic chieftainship in Eyrbyggja saga.
  123. Úlfar Bragason: Ekki er mark at draumum: Fantasía í Íslendinga sögu.
  124. Jens Ulff-Møller: The Celtic impact on the church in Iceland and Greenland.
  125. Fjodor Uspenskij: The category of affinity (Mágsemð) in the Old Norse model of family relations.
  126. Vésteinn Ólason: The fantastic element in the Íslendingasögur (Plenary paper, abstract).
  127. Vilmos Voigt: Skaldic poetry everywhere? Is there any influence from skaldic poetry on literatures in other European languages?
  128. Herbert Wäckerlin: The silence of Sigurðr þǫgli — Vox articulata, vox humana and vox animalia in Sigurðar saga þǫgla.
  129. Andrew Wawn: Whatever happened to Úlfs saga Uggasonar?
  130. Jonas Wellendorf: Visions and the fantastic.
  131. Lars van Wezel: Myths to play with: Bósa saga ok Herrauðs.
  132. Diana Whaley: Skaldic flexibility: Discourse features in eleventh-century encomia.
  133. Tarrin Wills: The anonymous verse in the Third grammatical treatise.
  134. Kendra Willson: Króka-Refs saga as science fiction: Technology, magic and the materialist hero.
  135. Kirsten Wolf: The color blue in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.
  136. Bryan Weston Wyly: Heita·sk hellor flióta hvatt sem korn á vatne: A paradigm for paradox in Kormákr Ǫgmundarson’s lausavísur.
  137. Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir: Draumvísur and draugavísur in Icelandic sagas: The border between fantasy and reality.
  138. Anna Zanchi: The colour green in Medieval Icelandic literature: Natural, supernatural, symbolic?
  139. Kristel Zilmer: Icelandic sagas and the narrative tradition of travelogue.
  140. Anton Zimmerling: Hví fara heiðnir menn hér? Christian and pagan allusions in the skaldic poetry of the thirteenth century.
  141. Þorleifur Hauksson: Sverris saga and early saga-style.

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