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The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature / Edited by John Mckinnell, David Ashurst and Donata Kick ; CONTENTS Volume 1 Sirpa Aalto (University of Joensuu, Finland): 'Categorizing "Otherness" in Heimskringla' 15 Christopher Abrant (University College London): 'Snonri's Invention of Hermodr's helreid' 22 Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford): 'Viking Northumbria - the Non-Saga Evidence' (Abstract) 32 Adalheidur Gudmundsddttir (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar, Haskoli Islands): 'On Supernatural Motifs in the FornaldarsQgur' 33 Carolyn B. Anderson (University of Wyoming): 'Fantasy in Njal's Saga: History as Spectral Past' (Abstract) 42 ty be T.M. Andersson (Indiana University, Emeritus): bljc 'The Earliest Islendinga saga: Another Candidate' 43 by any Emily Archer (University of East Anglia / Inst. of Hist, Research, London): '"It is generally thought that you are rather too poor": Saga Iceland, a Marriage Proposal, Rejection and the Reasons Why' (Abstract) 52 Armann Jakobsson (Haskoli Islands, Reykjavik): 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bardar saga and Its Giants' 54 Asdfs Egilsdottir (Haskoli Islands, Reykjavik): 'The Fantastic Reality: Hagiography, Miracles and Fantasy' (Plenary) 63 )00- one David Ashurst (University of Durham): eworld. 'Imagining Paradise' 71 Audur Ingvarsdottir: '"HafSi eg pad or hvorri er framar greindi". I?r6un i ritun Landndmabokar' 81 Massimiliano Bampi (Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia): 'Between Tradition and Innovation: the Story of Starkadr in Gautreks saga' 88 Bjern Bandlien (Universitetet i Oslo): 'Political and Cultural Relations between Norway and England after the Conquest' 97 Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney): 'Margin vs. Centre: Geopolitics in Nitida saga (a Cosmographical Comedy?)' 104 Simonetta Battista (Ordbog over det norrane prosasprog, Kjabenhavns Universitet): 'Bldmenn, djgftar and Other Representations of Evil in Old Norse Translation Literature' 113 Karen Bek-Pedersen (University of Edinburgh): 'Are the Spinning Nornir just a Yarn? A Closer Look at Helgakvida Hundingsbana 12-4' 123 Chiara Benati (Universita degli Studi di Genova): 'The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Saga Osvalds konungs hins helga: Patterns and Functions' 130 Yvonne S. Bonnetain (Schulmeistrat): 'Riding the Tree' 140 Ingvil Briigger Budal (Universitetet i Bergen): 'A Translation of the Fantastic' 149 Trine Buhl (Arhus Universitet): 'Illusions of Mimesis' (Abstract) 159 Jesse Byock (University of California, Los Angeles): 'Recent Excavations in Mosfellsdalur: The Mosfell Archaeological Project' (Abstract) 160 H.C. Carron (Emmanuel College Cambridge): ' History and Pordar saga kakala' 161 Marlene Ciklamini (Rutgers University - The State Univ. of New Jersey): 'Folklore and Hagiography in Arngrimr's Gudmundar saga Arasonaf 171 Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney): 'Poetry and FornaldarsQguf 180 Jamie Cochrane: 'Land-Spirits and Iceland's Fantastic Pre-Conversion Landscape' 188 Amy C. Eichhorn-Mulligan (University of Memphis): 'Contextualizing Old Norse - Icelandic Bodies' 198 Elm Bara Magnusd6ttir (Universitetet i Bergen): 'An Ideological Struggle: An Interpretation of Eyrbyggja saga' 208 Alexey Eremenko (State University of Humanities, Moscow): 'The Dual World of the Fomaldarspguf 217 Ther Ewing : ''/ litklcedum': Coloured Clothes in Medieval Scandinavian Literature and Archaeology' 223 Or en Faik (Cornell University): 'Fragments of Fourteenth-century Icelandic Folklore' 231 Fulvio Ferrari (Universita degli Studi di Trento): 'Gods, Warlocks and Monsters in the Qrvar-Odds saga' 241 Alison Finlay (Birkbeck College, University of London): 'History and Fantasy in Jomsvikinga saga' 248 Frog (University College London): 'Recognizing Mythic Images in Fantastic Literature: Reading Baldrs draumar 12-14' 258 Kari Ellen Gade (Indiana University): "'Ho6r ... sonr Qdins" - but did Snorri know that?' 268 GisSS Sigtirdsson (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a Islandi, Reykjavik): 'Mynd Islendingasagna af Bretlandseyjum' 278 Galina Glazyrina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): 'Dragon Motifs in Yngvars saga vidfprla' 288 Slan Granite (St Anne's College, Oxford): 'Miracles, Magic and Missionaries: The Supernatural in the Conversion poettir' 294 Gudrun Nordal (Haskoli islands, Reykjavik): 'To Dream or Not to Dream: A Question of Method' 304 GudvarSur M&r Gunnlaugsson (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a islandi, Reykjavik): 'The Origin of Icelandic Script: Some Remarks' 314 Fernando Guerrero (University of York): 'Supernatural Drinking Horns' (Abstract) 320 Terry Gunnell (Haskoli Islands, Reykjavik): 'How Elvish were the AlfarV 321 Natalya Gvozdetskaya (University of Bydgoszcz-Ivanovo): 'The "Myth of Valkyries" and the Female Characters of the Heroic Lays of the Elder Edda' (Abstract) 329 Jan Ragnar Hagiand (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Trondheim): 'As you like it? Narrative units recycled: Nordimbraland m sequences of saga writing' 331 Odd Einar Haugen (University of Bergen): 'On the diplomatic turn in editorial philology' 340 Eldar Heide (Universitetet i Bergen): 'Spirits Through Respiratory Passages' 350 Helgi Skuli Kjartansson (Kennarahaskoli Islands, Reykjavik): 'English Models for King Harald Fairhair?' 359 Helgi torlaksson (Haskoli islands, Reykjavik): 'The Fantastic Fourteenth Century' 365 Pernille Hermann (University of Aarhus): 'The Icelandic Sagas and the Real: Realism in Porldks saga' 372 Kate Heslop (Universitat Zurich): 'Assembling the Olaf-archive? Verses in Oldfs saga Tryggvasonar en mestd' 381 Ann-D6rte Heynoldt (University of Kiel): '"Draumar minir villa oss": On the Use of the First Person Plural in Contexts of Individuals in Skaldic Stanzas' 390 Bengt Holmstrom: '"Ego Cnuto" - a Winchester Document with Scandinavian Implications' 399 Lise Hvarregaard (Institut for Nordiske studiet og Sprogvidenskab, Kjabenhavns Universitet): 'Sagataek i Einar Mar Gudmundssons Universets engle1 407 Ingunn Asdisardottir (Reykjavik Academy): 'Frigg and Freyja: One Great Goddess or Two?' 417 Tatjana N. Jackson (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Professor II, University of Tromso, Norway): 'The Fantastic in the Kings' Sagas' 426 Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham): 'Norse Myth in Medieval Orkney' 435 Karl G, Johansson (Universitetet i Oslo): iHervarar saga's Stanzas and the Manuscript that Met the Reader' (Abstract) 445 Vera Johanterwage (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Minister): 'The Use of Magic Spells and Objects in the Icelandic Riddarasogur: Remundar saga keisarasonar and Viktors saga ok Bldvus" 446 Jon Gunnar JargeHsen (Universitetet i Oslo): 'Tormod Torfasus og det fantastiske i sagalitteraturen' 454 Marianne Kalinke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): 'The Genesis of Fiction in the North' (Plenary) 464 Merrill Kaplan (The Ohio State University): 'Out-Thoring Thor in Olafs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta' 479 Kari Gislason (Menntaskolinn i Kopavogi / Haskoli Islands): 'The Fantastic in the Family Sagas: Implications for Saga Authorship' 486 John Kennedy (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga): 'The Islendingasggur and Ireland' 495 Donata Kick (University of Durham): 'Old Norse Translations of ./Elfric's Defalsis diis and De auguriis in Hauksbok' (Summary) 504 Jana Kriiger (Universitat Kiel): "Fara i vestrviking: Wikingfahrten mit dem Ziel Britische Inseln in den altnordischen Konungaspguf 508 Annette Kruheffer: 'Thorkell the Tall- a Key Figure in the Story of King Cnut' 514 Hans Kuhn (Australian National University): ']?6r3ur hre6a in Saga and Rimuf 524 Henning Kure: 'Drinking from Odin's Pledge: On an Encounter with the Fantastic in Vgluspa 28-29' 533 Carolyne Larrington (St. John's College, Oxford): 'Loki's Children' 541 Annette Lassen (Haskoli Islands): 'Hrafnagaldur Odins I Forspjallsljod: Et antikvarisk digt?' 551 Philip Lavender (Jesus College, Oxford): 'The Translation of Prophetic Imagery in Merlinusspd" (Abstract) 561 Christina Lee (University of Nottingham): '"Cast a cold eye on life, on death": Disease in the Sagas' (Abstract) 562 Volume 2 Emily Lethbridge (Emmanuel College, Cambridge): 'Curses! Swords, Spears and the Supernatural in the Versions of Gisla saga Surssonar' 565 Shannon Lewis-Simpson (Memorial University of Newfoundland): 'The Role of Material Culture in the Literary Presentation of Greenland' 575 Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholms universitet): 'Kungaideologin i Sverris saga' 583 Maria Cristina Lombardi (University of Naples 'L'Orientale'): 'The travel of a text in space and time: the Old Norse Translation of iElfric's Homily Defalsis das'1 593 Lars L6nnroth (Goteborgs Universitet): 'Sverrir's Dreams' 603 Emily Lyle (University of Edinburgh): 'A Temporal Triad in Three Sagas' 613 Rikke Malmros (Aarhus Universitet): 'Kristne fyrsteskjaldes syn pa samfundet' 621 Teodoro Manrique Ant6n (Universidad de Salamanca): '"Vinr em ek vinar mins": Gudrun Gjukadottir in Gisla saga and Islendinga saga' 628 Tommaso Marani (Universita di Roma, 'La Sapienza'): 'The Roman Itinerary of Nikulas of Munkabvera: Between Reality and Imagination' 638 Edith Marold (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel): 'Tannhauser im Norden' 649 Marteinn H. Sigurdsson (Haskoli islands): 'The Fantastic Feats of Master Penis of Arabia' (Abstract) 659 Inna Matyusfaina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): 'Magic Mirrors, Monsters, Maiden-kings (the Fantastic in Riddarasogury 660 Beraadlne McCreesh (Universite de Quebec a Chicoutimi): 'Elements of the Pagan Supernatural in the Bishops' Sagas' 671 Rory McTurk (University of Leeds): 'Kings and Kingship in Viking Northumbria' 681 John Megaard (Universitetet i Oslo): 'Hva skrev Snorri?' 689 Stephen A, Mitchell (Harvard University):
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