Sif Ríkharðsdóttir gave the keynote lecture at the conference ‘Love and Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Patterns, Formulae, Reality’ held at the University of Tartu 27-29 January 2022. The title of the talk was ‘”Þeim var ek verst er ek unna mest“: The Concept of Love in Old Norse Literature’.
Photo credit: University of Tartu photographer (University of Tartu website)
Please welcome our newest team members!
Bridget C. Leary is one of the project’s MA students. She holds a BA in Classics from University College London and is currently working on her MA thesis for the Viking and Medieval Norse Studies programme at the University of Iceland. Her thesis will analyse emotionality in the poem Sonatorrek when removed from the narrative of Egils saga in which it is now typically embedded. Her work will compare emotive scripting in the poem with other examples from the thirteenth-century emotive canon, and use the resulting evaluation as an inroad into the controversy around the date of the poem’s original composition. Her overall aim is to assess the implications that placing the poem’s composition in a thirteenth-century context would have for understandings of medieval self and identity both constructed (through the poem) and revealed (through the process of construction).
Maximillian Jesiolowski is an MA student in the Viking and Medieval Norse Studies program at the University of Iceland and holds a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and Ancient History from Monash University in Australia, with minors in Music and History. For his MA thesis, he aims to examine emotional states and communal and individual identities in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar and how these concepts are reflected in the portrayal of landscape and natural environment in the saga.
We look forward to working with them and welcome them to our team!