EMOTIONS AND MINDSETS IN OLD NORSE LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
9 June 2018
Durham University
Conference organisers
Alexander Wilson and Katie Harling-Challis
Postgraduate speakers
William Raybould (Durham) – ‘Homage in the Old Norse World: The Uses of Emotion and Ritual in Personal Bonds’
Heidi Synnøve Djuve (Aberdeen) – ‘Mindsets in the Transmission Process of Konungastyrelsen’
Timothy Rowbotham (York) – ‘The Historiographical “Mindsets” of Ragnars saga loðbrókar and Ragnarssona þáttr’
Eleonora Pancetti (Iceland) – ‘Constellations of Words of Sorrow: The Vocabulary of Negative Emotions in the Poetic Edda’
Grzegorz Bartusik (Katowice) – ‘Sá framr hirðir fróns: Dissemination of Biblical Latin Conceptual Metaphors in Old Norse-Icelandic Contexts as a Marker of Christianisation’
Michael Baker (Durham) – ‘“Now Flying Over the Hellmouth”: St Guðlac and Nordic Volcano Imagery’
Harriet Jean Evans (York) – ‘The Animal Effect: The Alternative Translation of Emotions Between Animal and Human?’
Becca Drake (York) – ‘Of Monsters and Men: Illegal Cookery in Ketils Saga Hængs and Örvar Odds Saga‘
Katie Harling-Challis (Durham) – ‘The Mediation and Creation of Emotion, Endurance, and World-Views in Translations of Eddic Poems Relating to Guðrún Gjúkadóttir’
Keynote address
Hannah Burrows (Aberdeen) – ‘Old Norse Poetry as a Mind-Altering Substance’
Conference photo gallery
All photos © Michael Baker (2018)
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