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