University of Helsinki
09:00–10:40 Session 4A – Gender and Emotions
Metsätalo, Hall 1
Chair: Carolyne Larrington
“En þat þickir mer askorta er ek se þik eigi”: Emotions, gender, and the body in the Old Norse translation of Partonopeu de Blois
Meritxell Risco de la Torre
Hér er bleikr kallaðr hræddr, þvíat bliknan kemr eptir hræzlu—Fearless to fearful: Reconstructing fear in Old Norse literature
Teodoro Manrique Antón
‘A sorrowful stone of the shore of thought’: Exploring concepts of heart, mind and emotion in skaldic diction
Edel Porter
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09:00–10:40 Session 4B – The other II
Metsätalo, Hall 2
Chair: David Ashurst
Troll culture: Alterity and the shifting spatiality of the paranormal in the ‘post-classical’ Íslendingasögur
Rebecca Merkelbach
The prophecies of Drauma-Finni: Queer indigenous relationality in Finnboga saga ramma
Basil Arnould Price
The othered woman: Language changes in the translation of the supernatural in Rómverja saga
Natasha A J Bradley
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09:00–10:40 Session 4C – From motifs to geography
Metsätalo, Hall 6
Chair: Jonathan Y. H. Hui
Of vinðr and vargar – Exploring a motif in medieval literary tradition
Carina Damm
Extremes of the Austrvegr: Cultural diversity between the Circum-Baltic and Byzantium
Agni Agathi C. Papamichael
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09:00–10:40 Session 4D – Odin’s Mead and Myths
Metsätalo, Hall 4
Chair: Leszek P. Słupecki
Óðinn’s ale-bearers: Masculinity and the mead of poetry
Ann Sheffield
Disruption in Hárbarðsljóð
Manu Braithwaite-Westoby
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09:00–10:40 Session 4E – Travels and literature
Porthania, P673
Chair: Johnny Lindholm
“I travel around in the West”-fjords: Fóstbræðra saga as a mapping device
Gísli Sigurðsson
Resonant motion in the poems of Eyvindr Skáldaspillir Finnsson
Isobel Boles
Yngvar’s expedition to Serkland: From historical event to cultural memory to fantastic literature in 15th-century Iceland
Sabine Heidi Walther
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09:00–10:40 Session 4F – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
Metsätalo, Room 12
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10:40–11:00 Coffee (Porthania, lobby, & Metsätalo, lobby)
Sponsored by the Kone Foundation project Ownership, Language and Cultural Heritage: Ideologies of Folk Poetry in Finland, the Republic of Karelia and Estonia (2017–2022) of the University of Helsinki
11:00–12:40 Session 5A – Monsters
Metsätalo, Hall 1
Chair: Jesse Barber
Learned and imagined geographies in the fornaldarsögur
T. P. Rowbotham
Mun aldri fyrnask í þýðverskri tungu ok á Norðrlöndum: Centering Denmark and erasing the Baltic through supernatural geographies in Völsunga saga and Ragnars saga Loðbrókar
Adam Bierstedt
Tertiary worlds of the Eddas: Imaginary space and narrative in Norse legend and myth
Timothy Liam Waters
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11:00–12:40 Session 5B – International mobility and contacts
Metsätalo, Hall 2
Chair: Andrea Meregalli
Kinsmen, friends or mercenaries? Problematising the existence of ‘international’ forces in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavia
Beñat Elortza Larrea
The long road home: Veteran identity and the Varangian guard
Rue Taylor
Scandinavians and muslims in the mediterranean: A case study of Orkneyinga saga
Eduardo Ramos
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11:00–12:40 Session 5C – Imagining the world
Metsätalo, Hall 6
Chair: Marta Rey-Radlińska
Heroes, trolls, and ‘fan fiction’: Saga characters in the landscape of folklore
Matthias Egeler
Shaping courtly identity: The transformation of the werewolf in Old Norse-Icelandic adaptations of Marie de France’s Bisclavret
Matthew Malone
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11:00–12:40 Session 5D – Bishops and miracles I
Metsätalo, Hall 4
Chair: Úlfar Bragason
“Alheil(l)”: Miracles, cures, and constructions of disability in the byskupa sǫgur
Natalie M. Van Deusen
Death and burial in the Biskupasögur: The cases of Oddr and Solveig
Ryder Patzuk-Russell
Die Interrelationen der Guðmundar sögur mit besonderem Fokus auf Guðmundar saga C
Magnús Hauksson
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11:00–12:40 Session 5F – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
Metsätalo, Room 12
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12:40–14:00 Lunch (Porthania, Unicafe)
Sponsored by the Kalevala Society
14:00–15:40 Session 6A – Emotion, body and language (pre-organized session of the Old Norse Emotions Network)
Metsätalo, Hall 1
Chair: Carolyne Larrington
Gerður Halldóra Sickness and emotion in Old Norse prose: Exploring somatic experience
Caroline Batten
Involuntary physical manifestations of emotions: implications for concept of the body and saga style
Marie Novotná
The negation of male sexual volition in Old Norse-Icelandic depictions of rape: The case of Adonias saga
Matthew Roby
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14:00–15:40 Session 6B – Writing the saga
Metsätalo, Hall 2
Chair: Pernille Hermann
Textual and oral re-composition: The case of the younger Bósa saga
Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir
Fóstbrœðra saga and its author, Ingimundr Einarsson (†1170)
Yves Lenzin
Trouble will find me: Narrative structure and character development in Króka-Refs saga
Zuzana Stankovitsová
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14:00–15:40 Session 6C – Stratified sources
Metsätalo, Hall 6
Chair: Frog
Where did Þórólfur go? Multicultural interactions and genre development in Egils rímur and the “Younger Egla”
Nikola Macháčková
Place-making in the codex – The geographies of *Vatnshyrna and Pseudo-Vatnshyrna
Nora Kauffeldt
The death year of Óláfr Eiríksson and its influence on the dating of Yngvarr’s expedition
Annett Krakow
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14:00–15:40 Session 6D – Bishops and miracles II
Metsätalo, Hall 4
Chair: Natalie M. Van Deusen
The backgrounds and early careers of Swedish bishops in the late Middle Ages
Michael Frost
St. Óláfr’s Miracula in Eastern Europe revisited
Daria Segal
Code-switching and other kinds of Latin – Old Icelandic language contacts in the Bishops’ Sagas
Yekaterina Yakovenko
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14:00–15:40 Session 6 – Poster presentations
Porthania, lobby
Opened by: Jesse Barber
From Bálagarðssíða to undirheimr: The fantastic journey of Þorstein bæjarmagn from the Baltic Sea region to the underworld and beyond
Valerie Broustin
Body and cosmos: The logic of mythical transformation in Old Norse religion
Jan Kozák
Liturgical fragments of Medieval Iceland (1056–1402)
Tom Lorenz
Sagas aus der Vorzeit: Producing a German translation of the fornaldarsögur
Valerie Broustin and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter
14:00–15:40 Session 6F – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Metsätalo, Room 12
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society
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15:45–16:15 Coffee (Porthania, lobby, & Metsätalo, lobby)
16:15–17:20 Session 7A – Round table – Conceptualising emotions and bodies in Old Norse (organized by the Old Norse Emotions Network)
Metsätalo, Hall 1
Carolyne Larrington Caroline Batten, Marie Novotná, Edel Porter & Teodoro Manrique Antón
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16:15–17:20 Session 7B – Language and cultural relations in the Baltic
Metsätalo, Hall 2
Chair: Sirpa Aalto
Finland and Poland in the margins of Scandinavian runic culture
Kendra Willson
Språk- og kulturmøter i østerled
Gunhild Kværness
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16:15–17:20 Session 7C – Sacred objects
Metsätalo, Hall 6
Chair: Neil Price
Pendant figurines and pocket deities: Material culture as marker of public and private beliefs
Nancy L. Wicker
Severed heads as sacred objects
Timothy Nancarrow
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16:15–17:20 Session 7D – Mythic discourse in Gotland
Metsätalo, Hall 4
Chair: Eldar Heide
Some comments on the construction of Guta saga
Viktória Gyönki
Three sons in the third generation: A cosmogonic genealogy echoing through history
Frog
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16:15–17:20 Session 7E – Mythic agents & the Baltic Sea
Porthania, P673
Chair: T. P. Rowbotham
From Circum-Baltic brothers to Atlantic antagonists: Orcadian and Norwegian agendas in the Frá Fornjóti ok hans ættmönnum origin tradition
Ben Allport
The sea(s) in Old Icelandic sagas and Circum-Baltic folklore: The case of Rán/rán and the rå
Jonas Koesling
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16:15–17:20 Session 7F – Why are Finnic traditions interesting for Old Norse research?
Metsätalo, Room 12
Exhibit sponsored by the Kalevala Society