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Violence and Aggression in Old Norse Literature, 2015

Programm 2015

Friday, 5th June 2015

  • 9.30 Jiří Starý, Wilhelm Heizmann: Violence and Aggression in Old Norse Literature
  • 10.00 Ondřej Vaverka: From berbeinn brautingi to dáðlauss svikari ragr: An Attempt at a Typolo-gy of Verbal Aggresion in Selected Old Norse Sources
  • 10.45 Stefanie Poschlod: Between Beast and Man – The berserkir as violent warriors
  • 11.30 Coffee break
  • 12.00 Michaela Plavjaniková: Peaceful Men, Vengeful Women: Gender Perspective on Aggression in Sagas of Icelanders
  • 12.45 Johann Levin: Keeping it in the Family – Domestic violence in Njáls saga, Grettis saga and Bárðar saga
  • 13.30 Lunch break
  • 15.00 Sophie Heier: Doing the Inevitable – the Concept of brenna in Old Norse Sagas
  • 15.45 Coffee break
  • 16.15 Lucie Korecká: Eitt sinn skal hverr deyja: Aggressors, Victims, Death and Heroism in Íslendinga saga
  • 17.00 Katharina Winter: Aggression and cru-elty in Sturlunga saga

Saturday, 6th June 2015

  • 10.00 Daniela Hahn: Þeir gerðu þar mikit hervirki í ránum ok manndrápum. Robbers, Assassins and Highwaymen in Family Sagas
  • 10.45 Magda Králová: Crudelitas barbarica. Descriptions of Violence in the Verse Passages of Gesta Danorum
  • 11.30 Coffee break
  • 12.00 Andreas Schmidt: Brute force vs. sly words. Forms and concepts of violence in Færeyinga saga
  • 12.45 David Šimeček: Verbal Aggression in Magic
  • 13.30 Lunch break
  • 15.00 Florian Deichl: Non-stop violence. ‘Potestas’ as a method of hierarchical structuring in Völsunga saga and Nibelungenlied
  • 15.45 Coffee break
  • 16.15 Jan Marek Šík: Then, sir, since I fail in wisdom, with the sword I offer battle. Cruelty and Aggressiveness in Old Norse Mythological Poems and Lönnrot’s Kalevala
  • 17.00 Kristýna Králová: Blueish blades of spears, waves turning red from blood. Depiction of Violence in the Modern Literary Adaptations of Old Norse Sagas

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