IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 806: Monasteries in Iceland: In Memoriam of Kjell Lundquist
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, National Museum of Iceland / Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
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Moderator/Chair: | Inger Larsson, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet, Stockholms Universitet |
Paper 806-a | Medieval Icelandic Plant-Names in a European Context (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 806-b | Flora and Vegetation at Icelandic Medieval Monastic Sites: Cultural and Possible Relict Plants (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Science |
Paper 806-c | On the Edges of the Medieval Monastic World: Skriðuklaustur Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Monasticism |
Abstract | During the summer of 2009, four medievalists travelled around Iceland to visit the sites of the nine monasteries that operated there during the Middle Ages. In the group there was a landscape architect and garden historian, Kjell Lundquist, a linguist and specialist in vernacular plant-names, Inger Larsson, a botanist and specialist in surviving plants on monastic grounds, Per Arvid Åsen, and a medieval archaeologist, Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir. The aim was to search for the exact placing of the monasteries through ruins, landscape and written evidence of plant-names but also to search for surviving monastic plants on their grounds. The survey certainly provided new information about the monasteries in Iceland, not least as this was the first holistic investigation that was made on all of their grounds. In 2010 some additional research was undertaken. Late in 2010 Kjell Lundquist developed cancer and he died September 9th 2011. This session is held in the memory of Kjell by presenting the results of these investigations in Iceland. Other contributions about investigations on monastic gardens are most welcome as this was Kjell's field of speciality. |