Symposium · 5 recorded panels
Transforming Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
A Symposium- When
- Friday, March 12, 2021 · 9:00 am – 3:30 pm CST (3:00 – 9:30 pm GMT)
- Recordings
- All five panels below
Panel 1
Old Norse Literature and Realism · 9:00 am
Chair
Andrew McGillivray
Ármann Jakobsson — “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Medieval Iceland: Saga Realism and the Sworn Brothers”
Heather O’Donoghue — “Madness, Mythology and Mitteleuropa: Günter Grass’s Transformation of Old Norse Myth in The Tin Drum”
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Panel 2
Old Norse Literature and Medievalism · 10:20 am
Chair
P. J. Buchan
Tom Shippey — “The Old Gods Return”
Meghan Korten — “Old Norse women, feminism and textiles: the post-medieval representation of traditional femininity”
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Panel 3
Illusions of Perspective · 11:40 am
Panel 4
New Norse Creations · 1:00 pm
Chair
Ryan E. Johnson
Mackenzie Stewart — “The Creation of Midgard from Ymir the giant”
Ainsley Bloomer — “A Viking Legend: The Power of Love”
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Panel 5
Connections to the Land of Giants · 2:20 pm
Chair
Katrín Níelsdóttir
Amélie Roberts — “The Giantess as ‘Other’ in The Poetic Edda, Ynglinga Saga, and Gerður Kristný’s Bloodhoof”
Zlata Odribets — “The Meaningful Minimalism of Bloodhoof”
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Credits
Event organization: Dustin Geeraert, Karla King, Mackenzie Stewart. Video editing: Karla King. Web editing: Ryan E. Johnson. Presented with the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba. Image: Walter Crane, “The Viking Ship” (University of Manitoba Archives’ copy of William Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain, Kelmscott Press, 1894; see JWMS, 2012).