IMC 2015: Sessions

Session 1242: Sagas of Icelanders: Making and Mending

Sponsor:	Viking Society for Northern Research
Organiser:	Alison Finlay, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Haki Antonsson, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London
Paper 1242-a	Twisted Mirror Twins: Grettir the Strong and Þorgeirr Hávarsson in Each Other's Light (Language: English) Slavica Rankovic, Independent Scholar, Leeds Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 1242-b	The Lacunae in Bjarnar saga Hítdoelakappa (Language: English) Alison Finlay, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 1242-c	Lacuna in Vápnfirðinga saga: A (Post-)Medieval Curio and Text-Editing Practices of the First Half of the 20th Century (Language: English) Ilya Sverdlov, Independent Scholar, Helsinki Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	The session focuses on saga construction. The first paper deals with verbal echoes and thematic overlaps in Fóstbræðra saga and Grettis saga; the second and third discuss sagas with serious lacunae, from the point of view of reconstructing the missing content in one case, and of editorial strategies towards the missing text.