IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 707: Female Saints in the Nordic Region

Sponsor:	Norse Hagiography Network
Organiser:	Tiffany White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair:	Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
Paper 707-a	The Saints of Heilagra meyja drápa and Their Cult in Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 707-b	Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir and the Penitent Women Saints: Overlap, Influence, and Function (Language: English) Natalie van Deusen, Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies University of Alberta Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 707-c	The Saint and the Sea: St Ursula and Female Migration in Pre-Modern Icelandic Literature (Language: English) Katelin Marit Parsons, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract	This panel addresses the several understudied female vitae, both in prose and verse, that are extant in the Old Norse-Icelandic corpus. The main focus throughout is the Icelandicization of non-Icelandic saints, both in hagiographic material and so-called secular literature.