Rediscovering Saxo, in Iceland and Beyond
Thursday 13th July
Location: 27.3.53
- 09:30 Welcome and Coffee
- 10:00 Philip Lavender (Københavns Universitet): "Saxo’s Ambiguous Arrival in Iceland: Oddverjaannáll and Ambáles saga"
- 11:00 Teresa Dröfn Njarðvík (Háskóli Íslands): "From education towards entertainment - the development of Gorms saga gamla (Gormo) in Iceland"
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Visit to Royal Library (only for speakers)
Friday 14th July
Location: 27.3.53
- 10:30 Coffee
- 11:00 Santiago Íbañez Lluch (Translator of Gesta Danorum into Spanish): "Saxo in Spain: The Selvas Dánicas of Conde Don Bernardino de Rebolledo"
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Gottskálk Jensson (Københavns Universitet): "Hypothesis Islandica, or on the initially supportive but ultimately subversive impact of medieval Icelandic literature on the evaluation of Saxo Grammaticus as a historical authority in the sixteenth and seventeenth century"
- 14:30 Massimiliano Bampi (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia): "The legacy of heroic tradition: Starkaðar saga gamla and Saxo"
- 16:00 Reception
Organization and funding
The seminar is organized by PhD Philip Lavender, postdoc at the Arnamagnaean Institute, Department of Nordic Research.
Funding is provided by the