IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 228: Place and Identity in the Old Norse World
Monday 9 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Viking Society for Northern Research |
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Organiser: | Alison Finlay, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Pragya Vohra, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 228-a | Moving Bodies: An Archaeological Look at the Impact of Migration on Norse Society (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Social History |
Paper 228-b | Skalds on the Move: Icelandic Itinerant Poets at Alien Courts (Language: English) |
Paper 228-c | On Translating Valska (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
Abstract | This session deals with migration and boundaries within areas of medieval Scandinavian settlement. The approach is interdisciplinary and addresses attitudes of and to migrants and travellers in the Old Norse world, focusing on movement and colonization within areas of Scandinavian settlement, as well as the expression of the concept of foreignness in Old Norse texts. |