The project PI, Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, was invited to present at Göteborgs universitet (The University of Gothenburg) on 22 April, 2021. Her lecture, held online, addressed the medieval concept of pain and its various manifestations in Old Norse literature (titled ‘Pain, Love and the Embodiment of Emotion in Old Norse Literature’). Amongst other things, it considered the relationship between pain and ideological values, the physiological and psycho-somatic dimensions of pain and, ultimately, the function of pain as an emotion. In the lecture, Sif further suggested that pain in Old Norse literature is intimately interlinked with the notion of interior emotionality and its physical manifestation, i.e. the self – its emotive potentiality and its embodiment. Additional information about the lecture can be found here.
