Talk at The Saga Heritage Foundation Conference on Flateyjarbók in Den Norske Klub in London on June 6, 2018.

Workshop on the electronic editing of Old Norse texts, May 23–24, 2018. — A group of former and current Medieval Icelandic Studies and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies students spent some quality time editing a 14th-century manuscript of Njáls saga in XML. Thank you all for a very successful workshop! From left: Haraldur Bernharðsson, Greg Gaines, Ermenegilda Müller, Kristine Mærsk Werner, Eric Blue, Paul Martino, Holly Frances, Lea Pokorny, Jan Martin Juergensen, Barbara Laconi, Jaka Cuk og Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir.

At least fifteen graduates of the Medieval Icelandic Studies and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies programs at the University of Iceland attended the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 10–13, 2018. What a wonderful reunion! Haraldur Bernharðsson, Xan Stepp, Eduardo Ramos, Ryder Patzuk-Russell, Christine Schott, Miriam Maybird, Vanessa Iacocca, Melissa Mayus, Jonathan Correa, Jesse Barber, Aaryn Smith, Eirik Westcoat og Suzanne Valentine.

April 13, 2018 — Last day of classes! 35 students are finishing their second semester of Medieval Icelandic Studies and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies at the University of Iceland with course work on Old Icelandic language, Eddas and sagas, medieval history, manuscripts, religion and archeology. Thank you all for a wonderful year!

Welcome back! Viking and Medieval Norse Studies students return to Iceland after their 3rd semester in Aarhus, Copenhagen, or Oslo to unite with their fellow students in Reykjavík on January 12, 2018. This will be a good spring semester!

The semester is over!

Learn about the Icelandic Sagas, the characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland comprising roughly 40 texts.

The Medieval Icelandic Sagas is an introductory course on the single most characteristic literary genre of Medieval Iceland. Mainly written in the 13th century, the Icelandic Sagas are comprised of roughly 40 texts of varying length.

In this course, you will learn about three Sagas, written at different times, with the aim of giving an overview of the writing period and the genre as a whole. These are Eyrbyggja Saga, Njáls Saga and Grettis Saga. We will explore the landscape and archaeology of Iceland to see how they can add to our understanding of the Sagas as well as take an in-depth look at the most memorable characters from the Sagas.

Participants will have opportunities to engage with an online community of Icelandic and international scholars, learners and others to explore topics relating to Icelandic and Nordic Medieval history beyond the course curriculum.

• What you'll learn
• The history of Saga research since the 19th century.
• The fundamentals of Old Norse textual criticism.
• The benefits of exploring landscape and archaeological finds when reading the Sagas.
• Some of the most important character archetypes that reoccur in the Sagas.
• The interplay of Norse mythology and Christianity in the Sagas.
• Aspects of the supernatural in the Sagas.

Take this course for free on edx.org

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