Border Crossings and Liminal Experiences in the Old Norse Tradition, 2016
Friday, 27th May 2016
Rites of Passage
- 9:30-10:20 Johanna Schreiber: Kiósa mæðr frá mǫgom - Birth Rituals in the Medieval North
- 10:20-11:10 Sophie Heier: Managing Puberty – Becoming an Adult in Medieval Iceland
- 11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
- 11:30-12:20 Markéta Ivánková: Proving Yourself Worthy in the Riddarasǫgur- Why or What and of Whom?
Not Only Geographical Borders…
- 12:20- 13:10 Michaela Plavjaniková: Women on the Move and Their Border-Crossing Possibilities: Gender Perspective of Borders in the Sagas of Icelanders
- 13:10- 14:30 Lunch Break
- 14:30- 15:20 Kristýna Králová: The Impact of Border Crossing as a Narrative Device: The Case of þættir
- 15:20-16:10 Andreas Schmidt: (Fear?) The Walking Dead: Færeyinga saga Chapter 40 in Anthropological and Narratological Perspective
- 16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
Liminality and the Limits of Man
- 16:30- 17:20 Courtney Burrell: Religious-Ecstatic Experiences and the In-Between: Otto Höfler’s Sacred Bands and the Old Norse Tradition
- 19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 28th May 2016
- 9:30-10:20 Nikola Macháčková: Emotions While Meeting the Supernatural: Borders of This and the Other in Family vs. Legendary Sagas
- 10:20-11:10 Sophie Fendel: The State of In-Between: The Physicality of the Old Icelandic draugar
- 11:10-11:30 Discussion
- Excursion to Rosenheim: ‘Wikinger!’ Exhibition at Lokschuppen
Downloads
- Schreiber_Birth Rituals (2 MByte)
- Heier_Puberty (561 KByte)
- Ivánková_Riddarasögur (9 MByte)
- Plavjaniková_Gender Perspective (1 MByte)
- Králová_þættir (469 KByte)
- Schmidt_Walking Dead (710 KByte)
- Burrell_Sacred Bands (141 KByte)
- Macháčková_Emotions (293 KByte)