IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1045: Borders of the Possible: Exploring Conceptual Boundaries in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, I - Gendered Boundaries
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Old Norse Network of Otherness (ONNO) |
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| Organiser: | Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1045-a | Meinblandinn mjǫðr: Gender, Agency, and Drink in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1045-b | 'As though the wall, the hills, must melt away': Anchoritic Boundaries of Gender and Enclosure in Laxdæla saga (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1045-c | Crying on the Edge: The Borders of Gendered Emotive Behaviour in the Íslendingasögur (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | Situated in the context of new research into medieval Icelandic literature and culture that challenges long-held notions of binary opposition, this series of sessions intends to open up inquiry into the existence - or absence - and the nature (fixedness, permeability) of boundaries relating to gender, generic, and ontological transformation, the construction of identity and alterity, and geography, culture, and the natural world, as they are depicted, interrogated, problematised across Old Norse-Icelandic literature. This first session examines boundaries of gender and gendered behaviour across the corpus, showing that these boundaries are permeable, and that binary divisions cannot be upheld. |