Conference organized by the University of Iceland and Snorrastofa
Reykholt November 29-30 2024

Program

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.