IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1623: Does Size Really Matter?: Scandinavian Aspects of 'Empire', V: New Approaches to Norwegian History
Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Edward Carlsson Browne, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen Paul Gazzoli, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Kerstin Hundahl, Historiska Institutionen, Lunds Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ian Peter Grohse, Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim |
| Paper 1623-a | Håkon the Good Reconsidered: A Comparative Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1623-b | The Baltic Frontier: Why No Norwegian Crusade in the Baltic? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1623-c | 'It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it': Narrative Differences between the Shorter and Longer Versions of Böglunga sögur (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This strand of six sessions was organised to provide a unified forum for the discussion of Scandinavian history, which last year had been divided into several scattered sessions, some of which conflicted. The fifth of the six sessions will examine questions particularly relating to Norway as it found itself caught between different empires in the earlier middle ages and later developed an empire of its own. The first paper will compare Frankish imperial influence in 9th-century Denmark with possible English influence in 10th-century Norway. The second will examine Norwegian participation (or lack thereof) in the Baltic where other Scandinavian powers were building empires. The third will address differences between two versions of an undervalued text for the understanding of Norwegian history. |