Dreams of Fame and Honor: Late Medieval Icelandic Prose Fiction 1400-1700
International Conference -- 30th September-3rd October 2010
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Conference Program
Please note that the order of the papers might be subject to change.
Thursday, 30th September
16.45-17.15 | Introduction |
17.15-18.00 |
Víglundar saga and Bósa saga as LMIR |
18.00-18.45 |
Coffee break |
18.45-19.30 |
Þorsteins saga bæjarmagns in the light of New Philology - One Genre or Two? |
19.30–20.15 |
Holy Adventures? The Co-Existence of Exempla and Romances in Late Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts and Society |
20.30 |
Dinner |
Friday, 1st October
9.45–10.30 |
Bósa saga ok Herrauðs as an Ironic Debate on Aristocratic Values |
10.30–11.00 |
Coffee break |
11.00–11.45 |
Escape to, or from, Albion? The Life of the Mind in Late Medieval Iceland |
11.45–12.30 |
Constructions of Honor in the Eggertsbók Riddarasögur and the Impulses Behind the Manuscript’s Late Fifteenth-Century Production |
12:30–14:00 |
Lunch |
14.00–14.45 |
Deep in the Stemma Woods: Editing Þorsteins saga bæjarmagns |
14.45–15.30 |
The Hypertextuality of Þorsteins saga bæjarmagns |
15.30–16.00 |
Coffee break |
16.00–16.45 |
Authority and Power in the LMIR and the King’s sagas |
16.45–17.30 | The Longer Version of Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar in AM 152 fol. and the Virtues of Kings and Queens – Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (Oxford, UK) |
17.30–18.00 |
Coffee break |
18.00–18.45 |
Dragon Slayer Variations: the Relationship between Knight and Dragon |
18.45–19.30 |
Exploration and Displacement in Nítíða saga |
20.30 |
Dinner |
Saturday, 2nd October
09.00–9.45 | How Does Fame Spread? The Development and Diffusion of Riddarasögur, 1400–1700 |
9.45–10.30 |
Variant Redactions and the Development of Fiction in Late Medieval Iceland |
10.30–11.15 |
Coffee break |
11.15–12.00 |
On the Scholarly Quest to Spread Fame and Honor: the Swedish Manuscripts of Sörla saga sterka – Silvia Hufnagel (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
11.45–12.30 |
Sagan af Tístran og Indíönu – Matthew Driscoll (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
12.45–14.30 |
Lunch |
14.30–15.30 |
Optional: Augustinermuseum |
15.50–17.30 |
Guided city tour |
20.00 |
Dinner |
Sunday, 3rd October
09.00–9.45 | Christian Instruction in Bærings saga and Dámusta saga |
9.45–10.30 |
Rémundar saga keisarasonar and the Legend of Prester John |
10.30–11.15 |
Coffee break |
11.15–12.00 |
Bede's Cowherd in Iceland: Hallbjörn hali and his Acquisition of the Poetic Gift |
12.00–12.30 |
Conclusive discussion |
Directions from Freiburg Central Station
Contact
Dr. Jens Eike Schnall
Skandinavisches Seminar
Platz der Universität 3
D-79085 Freiburg
phone: +49 761 203-3365
fax: +49 761 203-3366