{"id":13,"date":"2019-01-11T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:14:58","slug":"research-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/jvannahl\/research-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Research & Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My research<\/strong> at the moment is focused on:<\/p>\n

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    1. night and darkness in the Sagas of Icelanders<\/strong> as narrative devices which render the medieval Icelanders' dealing with these phenomena ambiguous if not ambivalent (read more<\/a>); this project is funded by the Ranns\u00f3knasj\u00f3\u00f0ur H\u00e1sk\u00f3la \u00cdslands with 1.4 million \u00cdSK (9.000 EUR). Read an interview (2021) on this project here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. the impact of the so-called 12th<\/sup>-century renaissance<\/strong> in Europe on the writing of the Kings' sagas<\/strong>, with my topic of interest being the handling of contingency and chance in history<\/strong> from the point of view of historiography, narratology and anthropology (read more<\/span>)<\/a>; the results of this project have been published in my book \"Kontingenz und Zufall in den altisl\u00e4ndischen K\u00f6nigssagas<\/a>\" with de Gruyter (2021).<\/li>\n
    3. the history of scholarship<\/strong> in (German) medieval studies in the post-war 20th century, with one focus being on the possible benefits of using digital tools<\/strong> in analysing reception history (see most recently here<\/span><\/a>).<\/li>\n
    4. the experience of foreignness<\/strong> in the Kings' sagas, with particular interest in how childhood exile shape the character of later rulers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      In 2021\/22<\/strong> I supervised and participated in the project:<\/p>\n

      \"Night and Darkness in the Sagas of Icelanders\"<\/strong>
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      This project is funded by the Ranns\u00f3knasj\u00f3\u00f0ur H\u00cd with 1.4 million \u00cdSK (9.000 EUR). Read an interview<\/strong> (2021) on this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      The results are currently prepared for publication.<\/p>\n

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      In 2020<\/strong> I supervised and participated in the project:<\/p>\n

      \"Kr\u00f3ka-Refs saga \u2013 A Problem Case in Translation & Reception\"
      \n<\/strong>(in collaboration with Lea Pokorny, M.A.)
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      This project was funded by the Ranns\u00f3knasj\u00f3\u00f0ur H\u00cd with 700.000 \u00cdSK (5000 Euro). The translation is going to be part of \"Die Isl\u00e4ndersagas. Deutsche Gesamtausgabe\" (Sagaforlag, eds. Anita Sauckel & Rebecca Merkelbach).<\/p>\n

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      My publications <\/strong>include:<\/p>\n

      2023<\/strong><\/p>\n