Death, Otherworld and Afterlife in Ancient Scandinavia 2019
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
2nd floor, room 200
09:30-10:00 Sebastian Schindlbeck: Viking Age and Medieval Conceptions of Otherworld Journeys in Scandinavia
10:00-10:30 Andreas Kappelmaier: Where the heroes feast – Valhall, the hall of the dead
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Caitlin Allard: “Weaving the Web of Battle” Valkyries, Norns and Textiles in Norse Mythology
11:30-12:00 Johann Levin: Death Mountain: an afterlife in Iceland and beyond
12:00-12:30 Johanna Stowasser: She’s a Hel of a Woman – the ruler of the norse underworld and her sources
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:30 Kieran Sweeney: Germanic Burial Rituals in Literature
14:30- 15:00 Sophia Feigenbutz: A Million Ways to Die in the North! Death and Dying in the Sagas of Icelanders
15:00- 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Kristýna Králova: „For die we must.“ Foreshadowing Death and Afterlife in Various Saga Genres
16:00- 16:30 Jan Marek Sík: “Who killed Lemminkäinen?” An Example of Narrative Construction in the New Kalevala
18:00 Attendee Get-Together - (A)void Floating Gallery
Wednesday, May 29th, 2018
2nd floor, room 200
09:30-10.00 Josef Jürgens: The way is shut. It was made by those who aren’t Dead. And the Dead keep it. Some peculiarities within the Scandinavian sepulchral culture
10.00-10:30 Saskia Klose: Commemoration of the Dead
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Pauline Wagenknecht: Suicide and death wish in Old Icelandic Literature
11:30-12:00 Lucie Korecká: “The dead are not dead.”Revenants in the sagas and in Icelandic folktales
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:30- 13:30 Magda Králová: The Suicide of the ‘Historical’ Oðinn in English Literary Adaptions on the Turn of the 18th and 19th century
13:30-14:00 Barbora Hlavatá: “The Victorians and the Valkyries” The Choosers of the Slain in 19th Century British Literature
14.00 Final discussion / Summary
20:00 Attendee Get-Together - Kolkovna Savarin
Thursday, May 30th, 2019
09.15 Meeting at the National Library
09.30-11.30 Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department at the National Library
12.00-13.00 Guided tour through the Historic Locations of the National Library
Downloads
- Commemoration of the Dead - Saskia Klose (8 MByte)
- Viking Age and Medieval Conceptions of Otherworld Journeys - Sebastian Schindlbeck (1 MByte)
- Death and Dying - Sophia Feigenbutz (2 MByte)
- Death Mountain - Johann Levin (2 MByte)
- Deviant Graves - Josef Jürgens (4 MByte)
- For die we must - K.Kralova (592 KByte)
- Germanic burial rituals in literature - Kieran Sweeney (619 KByte)
- The dead are not dead - Korecka (384 KByte)
- She's a hel of a woman - Johanna Stowasser (1 MByte)
- Suicide and death wish in Old Icelandic Literature - Pauline Wagenknecht (533 KByte)
- The Suicide of the Historical Odinn - M.Kralova (1 MByte)
- Who killed Lemminkäinen - Sik (329 KByte)
- Valhall, the Hall of the Dead - Andreas Kappelmaier (890 KByte)
- The Victorians and the Valkyries - Hlavata (12 MByte)
- Weaving the Web of the Battle - Allard (41 MByte)
- Programm Prag 2019 (425 KByte)