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.