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The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe aims to integrate research from historical, archaeological, literary and other traditions. Highly interdisciplinary in scope, the series embraces also gender, literary, manuscript, philosophical, religious, and textual studies, as well as sources for educational use. We welcome cuttingedge approaches that seek to engage with all of medieval Scandinavia: not only Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, but also regions of the world that were part of the Norse universe in the Middle Agessuch as Rus, Normandy, the Danelaw, Greenland. Comparative studies are also welcome, as long as there is a significant Northern focus.
Escandinávia. Uma região que envolve uma grande carga histórica e cultural, mas tradicionalmente tratada como marginal ou periférica na Medievalística de forma geral. No entanto, há algumas décadas, o interesse por essa região tem se ampliado de forma impressionante pelo mundo, e os estudos nórdicos têm crescido especialmente nos países de língua neolatina. Uma das últimas publicações do renomado medievalista Jacques Le Goff, por exemplo, foi um prefácio para a edição francesa de Viking Age Iceland. 1 A busca pelas narrativas das sagas islandesas, dos mitos nórdicos e das Eddas, da história das explorações nórdicas, entre outros aspectos, ultrapassa interesses unicamente escandinavistas e germanistas. A Escandinávia da Era Viking vem tornando-se cada vez mais popular devido ao cinema e à televisão, despertando um vívido interesse nas novas gerações de pesquisadores. Para captar essas tendências sociais e acadêmicas, empregamos uma noção abrangente de Escandinávia, incluindo as regiões da Islândia, Finlândia e as Ilhas Féroe. 2 O presente dossiê tem como interesse a expansão e os confrontos, as relações e o intercâmbio histórico e cultural dos povos nórdicos com outras áreas geográficas do mundo, como o Mediterrâneo, o Báltico, o Leste Europeu, o Oriente Médio, as Américas e as Ilhas Britânicas. 3 As propostas podem tratar de temas da Literatura, História, Iconografia, Arqueologia, Mitologia e Religiosidade, Política e Cultura. O período abarcado pode envolver o início das migrações germânicas (século IV d.C.) até o apogeu da Liga Hanseática (séc. XV d.C.). A revista também aceitará contribuições acerca das ressignificações, representações e/ou imaginários que têm a Escandinávia (ou os temas nórdicos) como objeto na escrita da História, na Arte, na mídia e no entretenimento, desde o Medievo até os dias atuais. As submissões podem adentrar estudos comparativos, História do Imaginário, História Social e Cultural, análises literárias e linguísticas, traduções, análise do discurso, cultura material e visual, hibridismo cultural, História das Ideias e Política, entre outras áreas. Desse modo, este dossiê (2017/1) da Revista Roda da Fortuna (ISSN 2014-7430) tem o propósito de reunir pesquisas que envolvam diferentes perspectivas acerca da Escandinávia Medieval e dos estudos nórdicos. Os prazos para o envio de artigos, resenhas, entrevistas e traduções são: -envio de propostas: até 30/04/2017 -aceite dos trabalhos: junho de 2017 -publicação do Dossiê: julho de 2017 As propostas devem ser enviadas para o
New Norse Studies, edited by Jeffrey Turco, gathers twelve original essays engaging aspects of Old Norse–Icelandic literature that continue to kindle the scholarly imagination in the twenty-first century. The assembled authors examine the arrière-scène of saga literature; the nexus of skaldic poetry and saga narrative; medieval and post-medieval gender roles; and other manifestations of language, time, and place as preserved in Old Norse–Icelandic texts. This volume will be welcomed not only by the specialist and by scholars in adjacent fields but also by the avid general reader, drawn in ever-increasing number to the Icelandic sagas and their world. Table of Contents Preface; Jeffrey Turco, volume editor: Introduction; Andy Orchard: Hereward and Grettir: Brothers from Another Mother?; Richard L. Harris: “Jafnan segir inn ríkri ráð”: Proverbial Allusion and the Implied Proverb in Fóstbrœðra saga; Torfi H. Tulinius: Seeking Death in Njáls saga; Guðrún Nordal: Skaldic Poetics and the Making of the Sagas of Icelanders; Russell Poole: Identity Poetics among the Icelandic Skalds; Jeffrey Turco: Loki, Sneglu-Halla þáttr, and the Case for a Skaldic Prosaics; Thomas D. Hill: Beer, Vomit, Blood and Poetry: Egils saga, Chapters 44-45; Shaun F. D. Hughes: The Old Norse Exempla as Arbiters of Gender Roles in Medieval Iceland; Paul Acker: Performing Gender in the Icelandic Ballads; Joseph Harris: The Rök Inscription, Line 20; Sarah Harlan-Haughey: A Landscape of Conflict: Three Stories of the Faroe Conversions; Kirsten Wolf: Non-Basic Color Terms in Old Norse-Icelandic
2019
This is the first of the three presentations that I give within the course "Vikingatida och medeltida skandinavisk historia" at the University of Gothenburg. The 60-minute lecture (40+20 minutes) is followed by group work in which students try their hand in source criticism, working on excerpts on the Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings from two written sources.
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2021
The Háskoli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was established in 2011 as an annual international and interdisciplinary forum for graduate students of Old Norse and broadly defined Medieval Scandinavia including but not limited to Archaeology, History, (Comparative) Literature, Old Nordic Religion, Linguistics, Editing and Digitisation, Codicology, Manuscript Transmission, Gender and Queer Studies, Ludology, and Modern Reception Studies. The conference is organised by Early Career Researchers and postgraduate students and at the University of Iceland. In recent years, the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North has become a successful event with a steadily growing number of attendees. As the conference was held for the tenth time from April 15–17, 2021, we were delighted to expand the conference to a three-day online event on Zoom and Twitch and to introduce several new initiatives including a virtual exhibition of 14 posters, two keynote lectures, a m...
The paper addresses the failure and, perhaps, even unwillingness of many present-day Scandinavian scholars – in contrast to their predecessors – to acknowledge that Scandinavia at least from the early ninth century onwards was receptive to multiple influences from Byzantium as a result of the many contacts with the Byzantine world that existed both directly and via the Scandinavian-founded Rus’ polity. This also applies to aspects of early Christianity in Scandinavia.
Our most recent and thorough publication is written in English (2001), but was pubished in German a year later ("Die Welt der Wikinger"). We have been encouraged to make this work available in English and here are the the first chapters. A list of references will follow soon.
A review of P. H. Sawyer's book written for the 'Histories & Cultures of the Nordic Region' course in 2014.
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