Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference
Edited by Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2009
In August 2009, Uppsala University hosted the 14th International Saga Conference. Papers from the conference have now been made available online and can be downloaded as PDF files in two parts:
Here is a list of English-language papers which have been published in full in this volume:
Part 1
Karelia, Finland and Austrvegr, by Sirpa Aalto and Ville Laakso
Dancing Images from Medieval Iceland, by Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Outlaws, women and violence. In the social margins of saga literature, by Joonas Ahola
The Formation of the Kings’ Sagas, by Theodore M. Andersson
Why be afraid? On the practical uses of legends, by Ármann Jakobsson
Writing origins: the development of communal identity in some Old Norse foundation-myths and their analogues in Guta saga, by Robert Avis
Individuality and Iconography: Jakob Sigurðsson’s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v, by Patricia A. Baer
St. Óláfr and his Enemies in the Saga Tradition, by Sverre Bagge
“Gofuct dýr ec heiti”: Deer Symbolism in Sigurðr Fáfnisbani?, by Massimiliano Bampi
Muslims in Karlamagnúss saga and Elíss saga ok Rósamundar, by Bjørn Bandlien
Byzantium in the riddarasögur, by Geraldine Barnes
The World West of Iceland in Medieval Icelandic Oral Tradition, by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
What do the norns actually do?, by Karen Bek-Pedersen
Ásmund á austrvega: The Faroese Oral Tradition on Ásmund and its Relation to the Icelandic Saga, by Chiara Benati
The ‘Other’ and the Noble Heathen: Ambiguous Representations of Grettir and Finnbogi, by Lisa Bennett
The Good, the Bad and the Devil! On rewriting a Religious Motif in some Virgin Martyr Legends, by Kjersti Bruvoll
Negotiations of Space and Gender in Brennu-Njáls Saga, by Katrina Burge
The Secret Lives of Lawspeakers: the portrayal of lögsögumenn in the Íslendingasögur, by Hannah Burrows
Vatnsdoela saga and Onomastics: the case of Ingimundr Þorsteinsson, by Jörg Büschgens
Sagas and Archaeology in the Mosfell Valley, Iceland, by Jesse L. Byock
An Icelandic Genesis, by Betsie A.M. Cleworth
Poets and Ethnicity, by Margaret Clunies Ross
Passing Time and the Past in Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar, by Jamie Cochrane
Editing the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, by Matthew J. Driscoll
Anatomies off the Map: “Secret and distant freaks” and the Authorization of Identity in Medieval Icelandic and Irish Literature, by Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan
Which came first – the smith or the shaman? Volundarkviða, craftspeople and central place complexes, by Leif Einarson
Love affairs versus Social Status: A Theme in Kormáks saga?, by Elín Bára Magnúsdóttir
The ethical map of the Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, by Alexey Eremenko
Reception and function of stories about the East, by Stefka G. Eriksen
From saga to Chronicle: Motif Migration inside Medieval Scandinavia, by Fulvio Ferrari
Narrative Trajectories between Nodal Points in the Cultural Landscape – The Eriksgata of King Ingjald, by Svante Fischer
Snorri Sturluson and oral traditions, by Frog
The Good, the Bad and the Undead: New Thoughts on the Ambivalence of Old Norse Sorcery, by Leszek Gardeła
Sensory deceptions. Concepts of mediality in the Prose Edda, by Jürg Glauser
On the Reception of Eastern Europe in Pre-Literate Iceland, by Galina Glazyrina
Saintly Exile: the commemoration of King Óláfr inn helgi in the poetry of Heimskringla, by Erin Goeres
Recreating Tradition: Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Víkingarvísur and Óttarr svarti’s Hofuðlausn, by Jonathan Grove
Alternative criteria for the dating of the sagas of Icelanders, by Guðrún Nordal
Ansgar’s Conversion of Iceland, by Terry Gunnell
Egill Skalla-Grímssonr on the Library Site in Trondheim?, by Jan Ragnar Hagland
More inroads to pre-Christian notions, after all? The potential of late evidence, by Eldar Heide
A Short Report from the Project on Codex Upsaliensis of Snorra Edda, by Heimir Pálsson
Law recital according to Old Icelandic law: Written evidence of oral transmission?, by Helgi Skúli Kjartansson
Hjarta sjónir. Ekphrasis and medium in Líknarbraut, by Kate Heslop
The Herjólfr Legend from Härjedalen and Its Resemblances to the Stories of Landnámabók, by Olof Holm
Sörla saga sterka and Rafn’s edition, by Silvia Hufnagel
Odin – an immigrant in Scandinavia?, by Anders Hultgård
The Gosforth Fishing-Stone and Hymiskviða: An Example of Inter-Communicability between the Old English and Old Norse Speakers, by Tsukusu Itó
Aldeigjuborg of the sagas in the light of archaeological data, by Tatjana N. Jackson
The Sea-Kings of Litla Skálda, by Judith Jesch
Royal Women and the Friðgerðarsaga Episode, by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Biörner’s edition of the Friðþjófs saga ins froekna, by Vera Johanterwage
Where Old West and Old East Norse literature meet. A project outline, by Regina Jucknies
Sweden of the Sagas, by Kári Gíslason
Sweden and the Swedes in English language surveys of the Viking period, by John Kennedy
Celtic and Continental handicraft traditions; Template use on Gotlandic Picture Stones analysed by 3D-scanning, by Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt
When small words make a big difference: On adaptation and transmission of texts in Late Medieval
manuscripts, by Elise Kleivane
Rune stones and Saga, by Lydia Klos
Sverris saga in Uppsala De la Gardie 3, by James E. Knirk
When was the Battle of Helgeå?, by Annette Kruhøffer
Frithjof and Röde Orm: Two Swedish Viking impersonations, by Hans Kuhn
Part 2
Mirrors of the Self – Deconstructing Bipolarity in the Late Icelandic Romances, by Hendrik Lambertus
Troll and Ethnicity in Egils saga, by Paul S. Langeslag
Stjúpmoeðrasögur and Sigurðr’s Daughters, by Carolyne Larrington
Scribal Presence in Eggertsbók and Modern Editorial Attitudes, by Emily Lethbridge
Gendered memory – Rune stones, early Christian grave monuments and the Sagas, by Cecilia Ljung
The Gutnic runkalender and the ancient system of time calculus, by Maria Cristina Lombardi
Óðinn’s Role as a Guarantor of Law and Order in Norse Texts, by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo
Royal Descent from Odin, by Emily Lyle
“Archaic” Assonance in the Strophes of Ragnarr Loðbróks Family and Other Early Skalds, by Mikael Males
The kauphús of Peter the Apostle in leiðarvísir: A Market or a Scribal Error?, by Tommaso Marani
Kenn mér réttan veg til þess kastala er Artús konungr sitr í: References to Kingship in the Old French Conte du Graal and its Old Norse and Middle English Adaptations, by Suzanne Marti
The Valtari story in Þidriks Saga af Bern: sources and parallels, by Inna Matyushina
Overcoming Óðinn: the Conversion Episode in Njáls saga, by Bernadine McCreesh
Alu and hale II: ‘May Thor bless’, by Bernard Mees
Óláfr soenski and his skalds in Old Norse tradition, by Jakub Morawiec
Time-reckoning, ritual time and the symbolism of numbers in Adam of Bremen’s account of the great sacrifice in Old Uppsala, by Andreas Nordberg
Imagining the Kalmar union: Nordic politics as viewed from a late 15th-century Icelandic manuscript, by Hans Jacob Orning
Runic Literacy and Viking-age Orality, by Rune Palm
West Slavic toponyms in Knýtlinga saga: orthographic adaptations or orthographic mistakes?, by Aleksandra Petrulevich
The East as a Model for the West: Translation Method and Aims in Alexanders saga, by Jonatan Pettersson
Hair Loss, the Tonsure, and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland, by Carl Phelpstead
The Thidrekssaga and the birth of the first Russian state, by Alessio Piccinini
Suffering a sea-change: poetic justice in Egill’s Sonatorrek, by Debbie Potts
Betrothal and betrayal: the eddic tradition’s treatment of Sigurðr, by Judy Quinn
Grettir the Deep: Traditional Referentiality and Characterisation in the Íslendingasögur, by Slavica Ranković
The women and Óðinn, by Margareta Regebro
A Hagiographical Reading of Egils saga, by Philip Roughton
Coming to Grips with the Beast, by Carrie Roy
Brenna at UpsÄlum: the Denial of Cosmos., by Giovanna Salvucci
The “Wild East” in Late Medieval Icelandic Romances – Just a Prop(p)?, by Werner Schäfke
Man as the Measure of All Things: The Relationship Between Mankind and the Gods in Eddic Wisdom Poetry, by Brittany Schorn
Germanic alliteration and oral theory, by Michael Schulte
Saga Accounts of Violence-motivated Far-travel, by John Shafer
Per sortes ac per equum. Lot-casting and hippomancy in the North after saga narratives and medieval chronicles, by Leszek P. Słupecki
Fornaldarsögur and the concept of literacy, by Terje Spurkland
Aspects of editing skaldic verse: The case of Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings, by Rolf Stavnem
Sigurðr Fáfnisbani as commemorative motif, by Marjolein Stern
Is Óðinn really ‘alles fader’?, by Mathias Strandberg
Though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t: aspects of word order in skaldic kennings, by Ilya V. Sverdlov
Centre and Periphery in Icelandic Medieval Discourse, by Sverrir Jakobsson
The Versions of Böglunga saga, by Þorleifur Hauksson
Magic in sagas: the curses of Katla and Glámr, by Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen
Earl Hákon of Orkney’s Journey to Sweden, by Maria-Claudia Tomany
“Ærið gott gömlum og feigum.” Seeking death in Njáls saga, by Torfi H. Tulinius
Sturla the trickster, by Úlfar Bragason
The Genealogies of West-Icelandic Family Sagas and their relation to the Sturlung family, by Jens Ulff-Møller
From the History of the Obscene: Evident and concealed meanings of the nickname Þambarskelfir, by Fjodor Uspenskij
Hrólfs saga kraka – A History of Editing, by Tereza Vachunová
The Archaeological Material Culture behind the Sagas, by Helena Victor
The reproduction of Old Icelandic close front rounded vowels (, <ý> and ) in a 17th c. manuscript (AM 105 fol) of a part of Hauksbók (AM 371 4to), by Francesco Vitti
Further Remarks on Ohthere’s Beormas, by Vilmos Voigt
Estranged Bedfellows: Saga Scholarship and Archaeological Research in Iceland, by Elisabeth Ida Ward
Kormáks saga and the naming of Scarborough – a likely story?, by Diana Whaley
The Development of Skaldic Language, by Tarrin Wills
Parody and genre in sagas of Icelanders, by Kendra Willson
Towards a Diachronic Analysis of Old Norse-Icelandic Color Terms: The Cases of Green and Yellow, by Kirsten Wolf
Kenning construal as a criterion for the stemmatic analysis of the Codex Upsaliensis in the transmission of Snorra Edda, by Bryan Weston Wyly
Hildibrandr húnakappi and Ásmundr kappabani in Icelandic sagas and Faroese ballads, by Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir-Yershova
Håkon Jarl Ivarsson and Roðr, by Torun Zachrisson
On the symbiosis of orality and literacy in some Christian rune stone inscriptions, by Kristel Zilmer
Saga and East Scandinavia: Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference
Edited by Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2009
In August 2009, Uppsala University hosted the 14th International Saga Conference. Papers from the conference have now been made available online and can be downloaded as PDF files in two parts:
Part 1 – pages 1 to 550
Part 2 – pages 551 to 1081
Here is a list of English-language papers which have been published in full in this volume:
Part 1
Karelia, Finland and Austrvegr, by Sirpa Aalto and Ville Laakso
Dancing Images from Medieval Iceland, by Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Outlaws, women and violence. In the social margins of saga literature, by Joonas Ahola
The Formation of the Kings’ Sagas, by Theodore M. Andersson
Why be afraid? On the practical uses of legends, by Ármann Jakobsson
Writing origins: the development of communal identity in some Old Norse foundation-myths and their analogues in Guta saga, by Robert Avis
Individuality and Iconography: Jakob Sigurðsson’s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v, by Patricia A. Baer
St. Óláfr and his Enemies in the Saga Tradition, by Sverre Bagge
“Gofuct dýr ec heiti”: Deer Symbolism in Sigurðr Fáfnisbani?, by Massimiliano Bampi
Muslims in Karlamagnúss saga and Elíss saga ok Rósamundar, by Bjørn Bandlien
Byzantium in the riddarasögur, by Geraldine Barnes
The World West of Iceland in Medieval Icelandic Oral Tradition, by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
What do the norns actually do?, by Karen Bek-Pedersen
Ásmund á austrvega: The Faroese Oral Tradition on Ásmund and its Relation to the Icelandic Saga, by Chiara Benati
The ‘Other’ and the Noble Heathen: Ambiguous Representations of Grettir and Finnbogi, by Lisa Bennett
The Good, the Bad and the Devil! On rewriting a Religious Motif in some Virgin Martyr Legends, by Kjersti Bruvoll
Negotiations of Space and Gender in Brennu-Njáls Saga, by Katrina Burge
The Secret Lives of Lawspeakers: the portrayal of lögsögumenn in the Íslendingasögur, by Hannah Burrows
Vatnsdoela saga and Onomastics: the case of Ingimundr Þorsteinsson, by Jörg Büschgens
Sagas and Archaeology in the Mosfell Valley, Iceland, by Jesse L. Byock
An Icelandic Genesis, by Betsie A.M. Cleworth
Poets and Ethnicity, by Margaret Clunies Ross
Passing Time and the Past in Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar, by Jamie Cochrane
Editing the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, by Matthew J. Driscoll
Anatomies off the Map: “Secret and distant freaks” and the Authorization of Identity in Medieval Icelandic and Irish Literature, by Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan
Which came first – the smith or the shaman? Volundarkviða, craftspeople and central place complexes, by Leif Einarson
Love affairs versus Social Status: A Theme in Kormáks saga?, by Elín Bára Magnúsdóttir
The ethical map of the Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, by Alexey Eremenko
Reception and function of stories about the East, by Stefka G. Eriksen
From saga to Chronicle: Motif Migration inside Medieval Scandinavia, by Fulvio Ferrari
Narrative Trajectories between Nodal Points in the Cultural Landscape – The Eriksgata of King Ingjald, by Svante Fischer
Snorri Sturluson and oral traditions, by Frog
The Good, the Bad and the Undead: New Thoughts on the Ambivalence of Old Norse Sorcery, by Leszek Gardeła
Sensory deceptions. Concepts of mediality in the Prose Edda, by Jürg Glauser
On the Reception of Eastern Europe in Pre-Literate Iceland, by Galina Glazyrina
Saintly Exile: the commemoration of King Óláfr inn helgi in the poetry of Heimskringla, by Erin Goeres
Recreating Tradition: Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Víkingarvísur and Óttarr svarti’s Hofuðlausn, by Jonathan Grove
Alternative criteria for the dating of the sagas of Icelanders, by Guðrún Nordal
Ansgar’s Conversion of Iceland, by Terry Gunnell
Egill Skalla-Grímssonr on the Library Site in Trondheim?, by Jan Ragnar Hagland
More inroads to pre-Christian notions, after all? The potential of late evidence, by Eldar Heide
A Short Report from the Project on Codex Upsaliensis of Snorra Edda, by Heimir Pálsson
Law recital according to Old Icelandic law: Written evidence of oral transmission?, by Helgi Skúli Kjartansson
Hjarta sjónir. Ekphrasis and medium in Líknarbraut, by Kate Heslop
The Herjólfr Legend from Härjedalen and Its Resemblances to the Stories of Landnámabók, by Olof Holm
Sörla saga sterka and Rafn’s edition, by Silvia Hufnagel
Odin – an immigrant in Scandinavia?, by Anders Hultgård
The Gosforth Fishing-Stone and Hymiskviða: An Example of Inter-Communicability between the Old English and Old Norse Speakers, by Tsukusu Itó
Aldeigjuborg of the sagas in the light of archaeological data, by Tatjana N. Jackson
The Sea-Kings of Litla Skálda, by Judith Jesch
Royal Women and the Friðgerðarsaga Episode, by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Biörner’s edition of the Friðþjófs saga ins froekna, by Vera Johanterwage
Where Old West and Old East Norse literature meet. A project outline, by Regina Jucknies
Sweden of the Sagas, by Kári Gíslason
Sweden and the Swedes in English language surveys of the Viking period, by John Kennedy
Celtic and Continental handicraft traditions; Template use on Gotlandic Picture Stones analysed by 3D-scanning, by Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt
When small words make a big difference: On adaptation and transmission of texts in Late Medieval
manuscripts, by Elise Kleivane
Rune stones and Saga, by Lydia Klos
Sverris saga in Uppsala De la Gardie 3, by James E. Knirk
When was the Battle of Helgeå?, by Annette Kruhøffer
Frithjof and Röde Orm: Two Swedish Viking impersonations, by Hans Kuhn
Part 2
Mirrors of the Self – Deconstructing Bipolarity in the Late Icelandic Romances, by Hendrik Lambertus
Troll and Ethnicity in Egils saga, by Paul S. Langeslag
Stjúpmoeðrasögur and Sigurðr’s Daughters, by Carolyne Larrington
Scribal Presence in Eggertsbók and Modern Editorial Attitudes, by Emily Lethbridge
Gendered memory – Rune stones, early Christian grave monuments and the Sagas, by Cecilia Ljung
The Gutnic runkalender and the ancient system of time calculus, by Maria Cristina Lombardi
Óðinn’s Role as a Guarantor of Law and Order in Norse Texts, by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo
Royal Descent from Odin, by Emily Lyle
“Archaic” Assonance in the Strophes of Ragnarr Loðbróks Family and Other Early Skalds, by Mikael Males
The kauphús of Peter the Apostle in leiðarvísir: A Market or a Scribal Error?, by Tommaso Marani
Kenn mér réttan veg til þess kastala er Artús konungr sitr í: References to Kingship in the Old French Conte du Graal and its Old Norse and Middle English Adaptations, by Suzanne Marti
The Valtari story in Þidriks Saga af Bern: sources and parallels, by Inna Matyushina
Overcoming Óðinn: the Conversion Episode in Njáls saga, by Bernadine McCreesh
Alu and hale II: ‘May Thor bless’, by Bernard Mees
Óláfr soenski and his skalds in Old Norse tradition, by Jakub Morawiec
Time-reckoning, ritual time and the symbolism of numbers in Adam of Bremen’s account of the great sacrifice in Old Uppsala, by Andreas Nordberg
Imagining the Kalmar union: Nordic politics as viewed from a late 15th-century Icelandic manuscript, by Hans Jacob Orning
Runic Literacy and Viking-age Orality, by Rune Palm
West Slavic toponyms in Knýtlinga saga: orthographic adaptations or orthographic mistakes?, by Aleksandra Petrulevich
The East as a Model for the West: Translation Method and Aims in Alexanders saga, by Jonatan Pettersson
Hair Loss, the Tonsure, and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland, by Carl Phelpstead
The Thidrekssaga and the birth of the first Russian state, by Alessio Piccinini
Suffering a sea-change: poetic justice in Egill’s Sonatorrek, by Debbie Potts
Betrothal and betrayal: the eddic tradition’s treatment of Sigurðr, by Judy Quinn
Grettir the Deep: Traditional Referentiality and Characterisation in the Íslendingasögur, by Slavica Ranković
The women and Óðinn, by Margareta Regebro
A Hagiographical Reading of Egils saga, by Philip Roughton
Coming to Grips with the Beast, by Carrie Roy
Brenna at UpsÄlum: the Denial of Cosmos., by Giovanna Salvucci
The “Wild East” in Late Medieval Icelandic Romances – Just a Prop(p)?, by Werner Schäfke
Man as the Measure of All Things: The Relationship Between Mankind and the Gods in Eddic Wisdom Poetry, by Brittany Schorn
Germanic alliteration and oral theory, by Michael Schulte
Saga Accounts of Violence-motivated Far-travel, by John Shafer
Per sortes ac per equum. Lot-casting and hippomancy in the North after saga narratives and medieval chronicles, by Leszek P. Słupecki
Fornaldarsögur and the concept of literacy, by Terje Spurkland
Aspects of editing skaldic verse: The case of Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings, by Rolf Stavnem
Sigurðr Fáfnisbani as commemorative motif, by Marjolein Stern
Is Óðinn really ‘alles fader’?, by Mathias Strandberg
Though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t: aspects of word order in skaldic kennings, by Ilya V. Sverdlov
Centre and Periphery in Icelandic Medieval Discourse, by Sverrir Jakobsson
The Versions of Böglunga saga, by Þorleifur Hauksson
Magic in sagas: the curses of Katla and Glámr, by Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen
Earl Hákon of Orkney’s Journey to Sweden, by Maria-Claudia Tomany
“Ærið gott gömlum og feigum.” Seeking death in Njáls saga, by Torfi H. Tulinius
Sturla the trickster, by Úlfar Bragason
The Genealogies of West-Icelandic Family Sagas and their relation to the Sturlung family, by Jens Ulff-Møller
From the History of the Obscene: Evident and concealed meanings of the nickname Þambarskelfir, by Fjodor Uspenskij
Hrólfs saga kraka – A History of Editing, by Tereza Vachunová
The Archaeological Material Culture behind the Sagas, by Helena Victor
The reproduction of Old Icelandic close front rounded vowels (, <ý> and ) in a 17th c. manuscript (AM 105 fol) of a part of Hauksbók (AM 371 4to), by Francesco Vitti
Further Remarks on Ohthere’s Beormas, by Vilmos Voigt
Estranged Bedfellows: Saga Scholarship and Archaeological Research in Iceland, by Elisabeth Ida Ward
Kormáks saga and the naming of Scarborough – a likely story?, by Diana Whaley
The Development of Skaldic Language, by Tarrin Wills
Parody and genre in sagas of Icelanders, by Kendra Willson
Towards a Diachronic Analysis of Old Norse-Icelandic Color Terms: The Cases of Green and Yellow, by Kirsten Wolf
Kenning construal as a criterion for the stemmatic analysis of the Codex Upsaliensis in the transmission of Snorra Edda, by Bryan Weston Wyly
Hildibrandr húnakappi and Ásmundr kappabani in Icelandic sagas and Faroese ballads, by Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir-Yershova
Håkon Jarl Ivarsson and Roðr, by Torun Zachrisson
On the symbiosis of orality and literacy in some Christian rune stone inscriptions, by Kristel Zilmer
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