Laity, Religion and Literature in the Medieval North
Conference organized by the University of Iceland and Snorrastofa
Reykholt November 29-30 2024
Friday November 29th
10:00 - 12:00
13:00 - 13:30 13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 – 15:00 15:00 - 15:30 15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30 16:30 – 17:00
19:00 - 21:00
November 30th
9:00 - 9:30 9:30 – 10:00 10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00 13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14.00 14.30 - 15.30
16:00 - 18:00
Travel to Reykholt Lunch
The organizers Richard North
Natalie Van Deusen Haraldur Hreinsson
Coffee Break
Piergiorgio Consagra Brooklyn Arnot Emily Cremins
Dinner
Síân Grønlie Haki Antonsson Gregorz Bartusik
Coffee Break
Tiffany White Jan van Nahl
Lunch
Jonas Wellendorf Torfi H. Tulinius
Return to Reykjavík
Departure from Edda, Arngrímsgata 5, 107 Reykjavík.
Opening remarks
Seeing things in Grettis saga: Grettir and Oddr munkr Snorrason
Mirrors of Virtue: The Lives of the Saints in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry.
The ‘Religious’ and the ‘Secular’ in Literary Historical Scholarship on Medieval Iceland
Two medieval Icelandic exempla and their secular sources
A Story of Redemption: Parallels between Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks and Old Testament Narrative
Somewhere Beyond the Sea: a reading of Egill’s lausavísa 43
The cutting edge: Translating Samson for lay Icelanders
Lay and Ecclesiastical Law in Njáls saga
Biblical conceptual metaphors and the building of a Christian community in medieval Iceland
Hagioscaping Kjalnesinga saga
Old Norse mythology, thirteenth-century theology, and twentieth-century scholarship
The Tale of the Duke’s Son in Iceland, Denmark and Elsewhere
Exegesis, skaldic poetry, and saga writing. Discussion: The future of our project.
Visitor’s Reception’s Opening Hours
1 May – 31 August:
every day 10 – 17
1 Sept. – 30 April:
weekdays 10 – 17
Otherwise by arrangement.