University of Helsinki
Monday 8 August
16:15–17:55 Session 3F – Constructing the saga
Unable to participate
Origins and impact of the first printed collections of sagas
Ermenegilda Müller
Tuesday 9 August
Session 4A – Gender and Emotions (09:00–10:40)
Trading places:
Matthew Roby, “The negation of male sexual volition in Old Norse-Icelandic depictions of rape: The case of Adonias saga” moved to Session 6A from 4A
Edel Porter, “‘A sorrowful stone of the shore of thought’: Exploring concepts of heart, mind and emotion in skaldic diction” moved from Session 6A to 4A
Session 4D – Odin’s Mead and Myths (09:00–10:40)
Unable to present:
Bob Oscar Benjamin van Strijen, Inspiration Between Two Worlds
Session 5C – Imagining the world (11:00–12:40)
Unable to participate
Harðar svefnfarar? Medieval Icelandic conceptions of unpleasant nocturnal experiences
Kirsi Kanerva
Session 6A – Emotion, Body and Language (14:00–15:40)
Trading places:
Edel Porter, “‘A sorrowful stone of the shore of thought’: Exploring concepts of heart, mind and emotion in skaldic diction” moved to Session 4A from 6A
Matthew Roby, “The negation of male sexual volition in Old Norse-Icelandic depictions of rape: The case of Adonias saga” moved from Session 4A to 6A
Thursday 11 August
Session 10B – Skaldic poetry (16:15–17:55)
Unable to participate
Hybridity and selfhood in Einarr Skúlason’s Geisli
Daniel Brielmaier
Friday 12 August
10:30–12:45 Session 11A – Archaeology and literature
Unable to participate
Judith Jesch, The archaeology of text: Digging into Orkneyinga saga
Moved to session:
Rebecca Drake, Maritime cultural geographies in Örvar-Odds saga and the alliterative Morte Darthure
CURRENT ORDER IN Session 11A:
A digital conversation: Applying data analysis to Viking Age symbols in archaeology and mythological literature
Katherine Beard
“Maðr þóttumk ek mennskr til þessa”: Rethinking “female” (?) warrior figures in medieval Norse sources: Material engagement, composite personhoods, and the value of archaeological theory for literary studies
Miriam Mayburd
Transpersonal identities: Old Norse childbirth in literature and life
Katherine Olley
Maritime cultural geographies in Örvar-Odds saga and the alliterative Morte Darthure
Rebecca Drake
10:30–12:45 Session 11C – Mosaic of manuscripts
Unable to present
Bjørn Bandlien
The mode of retelling: Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa in Bæjarbók á Rauðasandi
14:00–15:40 Session 12B – Law II
Unable to participate:
Anne Irene Riisøy, Útlegð – Outlaw(ry): A comparison between early Iceland and Norway
14:00–15:40 Session 12D – Networking in the Baltic
Unable to participate
Iceland, Baltic, Turkmenistan: The archaeological connections of the Mosfell excavations
Jesse Byock
Replaced with:
Loki the blood-sibling of Óðinn in Japanese interpretations: A lean and lithe, philosophical and mutable, father-mother figure of monsters
Tsukusu Jinn Itó