9:00–10:00 Keynote lecture
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Jürg Glauser
Revisiting “Folkminnesforskning och filologi”
Stephen A. Mitchell
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10:00–10:30 Coffee (Astra, Scientific Forum)
10:30–12:45 Session 11A – Archaeology and literature
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Kristo Siig
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
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10:30–12:45 Session 11B – Motif and style of sagas
Astra, Room A121
Chair: Rudolf Simek
Riddarasögur and saga style
Daniel Sävborg
Motif as a form of the representation of the past in the legendary sagas
Elena Melnikova
Morphology of the saga: André Jolles on the Sage as a “simple form”
David Nee
Redemption in the Rus’: The motif of the lost-and-found hand and ring in three medieval Icelandic romances
Jonathan Y. H. Hui
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10:30–12:45 Session 11C – Mosaic of manuscripts
Astra, A046
Chair: Jakub Morawiec
The archaeological eye: Antiquarianism and medievalism in Icelandic paper manuscripts of the Prose Edda
Friederike Richter
The mode of retelling: Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa in Bæjarbók á Rauðasandi
Daria Glebova
Mediums of storytelling in late fifteenth-century Iceland: A study of AM 586 4to and AM 589a-f 4to
Alisa Valpola-Walker
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10:30–12:45 Session 11D – Skalds and discourse
Astra, Room A402
Chair: Tarrin Wills
‘Least moved out of place’ (sízt ór stað fœrð): Writing down the skalds
Kate Heslop
Towards a literary history of the court skalds
Eirik Westcoat
How formulaic is a skaldic formula?
Bianca Patria
Representations of poetical performances in the skáldsögur: A review from a pragmatical approach
Inés García López
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10:30–12:45 Session 11E – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
12:45–14:00 Lunch (Astra, Scientific Forum)
14:00–15:40 Session 12A – Perspectives on Knýtlinga saga (pre-organized session)
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002
Chair: Reynir Eggertsson
What is Knýtlinga saga and why does it matter?
Alexandra Petrulevich
Knýtlinga saga as source for political and military encounters in the Danish/German/Slavonic borderland
Jakub Morawiec
How good is king Magnús? The picture of the King in Knýtlinga saga and Heimskringla
Marta Rey-Radlińska
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14:00–15:40 Session 12B – Law II
Astra, Room A121
Chair: John Kennedy
Morality, communal action and pre-Christian religion in the North
Declan Taggart
Hurtful words: Verbal and physical dimensions of wounding in Old Norse laws and sagas
Sean Lawing
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14:00–15:40 Session 12C – Human and animal relations
Astra, Room A046
Chair: Maria Cristina Lombardi
Man’s best friend? Re-evaluating canine-human relationships in Viking-Age multispecies communities
Harriet Evans Tang
‘Eg hørde på dæn hundegaul i míne langsomme dagar’: The otherworldly dogs of Medieval Europe
Ashley Castelino
Fettered by feathers: The bird transformations of Völundr and Óðinn
Jan Kozák
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14:00–15:40 Session 12D – Networking in the Baltic
Astra, Room A402
Chair: Joonas Ahola
Relationship and exchange between the northern elites in the Viking and medieval Baltic area: The case for the Baltic psalteries’ origins
Andris Mucenieks
Birgitta: Study of her political and religious influence in the Baltic world in the 14th and 15th centuries
Ella Le Peltier-Foschia
Loki the blood-sibling of Óðinn in Japanese interpretations: A lean and lithe, philosophical and mutable, father-mother figure of monsters
Tsukusu Jinn Itó
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14:00–15:40 Session 12E – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
15:45–16:15 Coffee (Astra, Scientific Forum)
16:15–17:15 Business meeting
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Led by Sirpa Aalto and Daniel Sävborg
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19:30–23:00 Conference dinner at Seaplane Harbour