The Icelandic Family Sagas: New Trends and Inevitable Questions

One-day conference, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics & Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen, 16th April 2015; room: 15A.0.13

  • 9:15-9:20 Welcome
  • 9:20-10:00 Gísli Sigurðsson: The relevance of the oral background for the eddas and sagas
  • 10:00-10:40 Pernille Hermann: Sagaer og erindring
  • 10:40-11:00 Coffee/tea
  • 11:00-11:40 Torfi Tulinius: Trauma and the Sagas. Thinking about literature in troubled times
  • 11:40-12:20 Annette Lassen: Kaos og kapital: Et tredje mønster?
  • 12:20-13:20 Lunch
  • 13:20-14:00 Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir: The symbiosis of sagas and manuscripts: Some thoughts on scribes and scholars
  • 14:00-14:40 Carol Clover: Finding Facts in Njáls saga
  • 14:40-15:00 Coffee/tea
  • 15:00-15:40 Erik Skyum-Nielsen: Handlingens rum, hændelsens sted. Sagalæsning som geo-kritik
  • 15:40-16:20 Thomas Bredsdorff: At undervise i sagaer: Glæder og problemer