Our project’s Principal Investigator, Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, recently gave a talk on ‘Sorg og sársauki í Íslendingasögunum’ (‘Pain and Sorrow in the Icelandic Sagas’), which was delivered in a session organised by the Society for the History of Medicine at The Annual Meeting of the Icelandic Medical Association (18-22 January 2021). Vilhelmína Haraldsdóttir, Consultant of Internal Medicine and Hematology at the National University Hospital of Iceland, chaired the session. Other speakers included Óttar Guðmundsson, psychiatrist and author and Chair of the Society, Torfi H. Tulinius, Professor of Medieval Icelandic Literature, and Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Professor of Medieval Icelandic Literature. The conference was held in the concert and conference hall Harpan in Reykjavík city centre and streamed live to audiences.
