The Icelandic Family Sagas: New Trends and Inevitable Questions
One-day conference organized by the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics & Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen.
9:15 - 9:20 Welcome
9:20 - 10:00 The relevance of the oral background for the eddas and sagas
Gísli Sigurðsson
10:00 - 10:40 Sagaer og erindring (in Danish)
Pernille Hermann
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00 - 11:40 Trauma and the Sagas. Thinking about literature in troubled times
Torfi Tulinius
11:40 - 12:20 Kaos og kapital: Et tredje mønster? (in Danish)
Annette Lassen
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 14:00 The symbiosis of sagas and manuscripts: Some thoughts on scribes and
scholars
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
14:00 - 14:40 Finding Facts in Njáls saga
Carol Clover
14:40 - 15:00 Coffee/tea
15:00 - 15:40 Handlingens rum, hændelsens sted. Sagalæsning som geo-kritik
(in Danish)
Erik Skyum-Nielsen
15:40 - 16:20 At undervise i sagaer: Glæder og problemer (in Danish)
Thomas Bredsdorff
Everybody's welcome.