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