University of Helsinki
09:00–09:30 Tallinn opening of the conference
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Marika Mägi
Vice-Rector for Research Katrin Niglas, Tallinn University
Daniel Sävborg
Ambassador of Norway to Estonia Else Berit Eikeland
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09:30–10:30 Keynote lecture
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Haukur Þorgeirsson
The vernacular scribe in medieval Iceland: On the transmission of texts in a living language vs. “relic texts”
Haraldur Bernharðsson
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10:30–11:00 Coffee (Astra, Scientific Forum)
11:00–12:40 Session 8A – Roundtable – The new ONP: Multifaceted approaches to medieval texts (in three parts)
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Tarrin Wills
How it’s made: A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
Simonetta Battista & Tarrin Wills
Ever changing, ever growing: Editing and expanding ONP
Ellert Þór Jóhannsson & Johnny F. Lindholm
An Old Norse multitool: Using the digital ONP
Tarrin Wills & Pernille Ellyton
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11:00–12:40 Session 8B – Perspectives on Jómsvíkinga saga I
Astra, Room A121
Chair: Lee Colwill
Kinship, community and gender relations in the Saga of the Jómsvikings and in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
Annette Volfing
Alternative models of community formation in Jómsvíkinga saga
Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes
Jómsborg as a heterotopia: Law in Jómsvíkinga saga
Roland Scheel
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11:00–12:40 Session 8C – A look at cosmologies
Astra, Room A046
Chair: Manu Braithwaite-Westoby
Polaris and the world pillar in Northern tradition – and the god Heimdallr
Eldar Heide
Encircling serpents: Cosmological timelines and the example of the world serpent
Jesse Barber
Disenchanting the world: Euhemerism and the Old Norse cosmology
Jules Piet
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11:00–12:40 Session 8D – New theoretical approaches to the interpretation of saga literature (pre-organized session)
Astra, Room A402
Chair: Jonas Zeit-Altpeter
Sagas in the digital age: Comments on the digital interpretation of saga literature
Gregory Gaines
First-person feuds: A digital humanities approach to the use of medieval Icelandic literature in video games
Luca Panaro
Putting the past on display: Museological approaches to the interpretation of the past in saga literature
Olivia Elliott Smith
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11:00–12:40 Session 8E – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
12:40–14:00 Lunch (Astra, Scientific Forum)
14:00–15:40 Session 9A – From society to the supernatural
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Olivia Elliott Smith
Bolli’s choice: Female inciters and social constraint in thirteenth-century Iceland
Torfi Tulinius
Eitt sinn skal hverr deyja: On the relationship between kinship duties and the cursed treasure in Vǫlsunga saga
Mario Matín Páez
Bones, back-breaking and magical creatures
Maria Cristina Lombardi
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14:00–15:40 Session 9B – Perspectives on Jómsvíkinga saga II
Astra, Room A121
Chair: Sirpa Aalto
Nú er at segja frá: Narratorial comments in Jómsvíkinga saga
Anna Katharina Heiniger
Jómsvíkinga saga: Constructing a memory of the past
Lucie Korecká
Presenting Jómsvíkinga saga (and Stýrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa) to an English-speaking audience
John Kennedy
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14:00–15:40 Session 9C – Law I
Astra, Room A046
Chair: Natalie Van Deusen
Law: What is it good for?
Ela Sefcikova
Norse notions of labour
Santiago Barreiro
Assembly sites and non-violent intercultural interaction in the viking diaspora
Alexandra Sanmark & Irene García Losquiño
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14:00–15:40 Session 9D – Between Latin and vernacular
Astra, Room A402
Chair: Ellert Jóhannsson
Writing classical antiquity in mediæval Iceland: The interpolations of Trójumanna saga
Malo Adeux
The first and second life of a trilingual psalter palimpsest: Latin, French and Icelandic in AM 618 4to
Tom Lorenz
Adam of Bremen’s Descriptio: Is it just an ethnic-geographic portrayal of Scandinavia?
Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski
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14:00–15:40 Session 9E – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
15:45–16:15 Coffee (Astra, Scientific Forum)
16:15–17:55 Session 10A – Geography, movement & character construction
Astra, Auditorium Maximum (A002)
Chair: Sabine Heidi Walther
Narratological functions of geography in Göngu-Hrólfs saga
Kathrin Chlench-Priber
What it takes to make a knight: Modes of representation and narrative function of the Baltic regions in Sigurðar saga þögla
Michael Micci
The travels of Haraldr Sigurðarson: Gamanvísur and other stories
Erin Goeres
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16:15–17:55 Session 10B – Skaldic poetry
Astra, Room A121
Chair: Mikael Males
Skáld, vates, איבנ) poet, seer, prophet): A cross-cultural study of separate charismatic traditions
David Ashurst
Ok þá kvað hann vísu: Sagas and the ongoing history of skaldic reception
Ben Chennells
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16:15–17:55 Session 10C – Settlement
Astra, Room A046
Chair: Reynir Eggertsson
High seat pillars and settlement: Fact, fake news or folklore
Terry Gunnell
Kolskeggur hinn fróði og landnám: Bera formúlukenndar landnámsfrásagnir merki um upphaflegt mót?
Auður Ingvarsdóttir
Garðarshólmr: Exploring the social networks of eastern Scandinavians in Landnámabók
Cassidy Croci
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16:15–17:55 Session 10D – Reception of the Fantastic
Astra, Room A402
Chair: Stephen Mitchell
Representations of the witch: The ongoing narrative of Scandinavian nation building
Clare Mulley
King Redbad of the Frisians: A posthumous Viking
Simon Halink
Murder in the baðstofa
Katelin Parsons
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16:15–17:55 Session 10E – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society