20 May 2016
University College London
Institute of Advanced Studies
Wilkins Building, South Wing
10:00 - 10:30 Arrival & Registration
10:30 - 11:30 Session 1
Chair: Louisa Taylor (UCL)
Amy Faulkner (Oxford), “ Mere-hus and maðm-horda mæst : Depictions of the Ark in Genesis A and Exodus ”
Respondent: Tony Harris (Cambridge)
Arendse Lund (UCL) , “Doubting the Virgin Mary in Guðmundar saga biskups ”
Respondent: Rebecca Merkelbach (Cambridge)
11:30 - 12:00 Refreshments
12:00 - 1:00 Session 2
Chair: Rebecca Merkelbach (Cambridge)
Jonathan Hui (Cambridge), “The Matter of the Austrvegr : The Russiabased Subset of Fornaldarsögur ”
Respondent: Erin Goeres (UCL)
Francesco Colombo (Cambridge), “Interpreting Reginsmál and Fáfnismál : an Analysis of a Semantic Field”
Respondent: Brian MacMahon (Oxford)
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Session 3
Chair: Caitlin Ellis (Cambridge)
Tony Harris (Cambridge), “The Obfuscations in the Perpetual Table of the
Easter Computus in MS Bodley 309 f.165v”
Respondent: Louisa Taylor (UCL)
Kit Richards (Birmingham), “Size Matters: Reading Disability in Old Norse”
Respondent: Jonathan Hui (Cambridge)
Caroline Batten (Oxford), “ Strengði hon elfi : Female Reactions to Male
Violence in Eddic Poetry”
Respondent: Pete Sandberg (UCL)

3:30 - 4:00 Refreshments
4:00 - 5:00 Session 4
Chair: Pete Sandberg (UCL)
Jon Wright (Cambridge), “ Ex marginibus : Marginalia written (out) by
Gissur Einarsson (*1512 †1548)”
Respondent: Arendse Lund (UCL)
Emma Knowles (Cambridge), “Approaching the Old English Exodus
Ecocritically”
Respondent: Caroline Batten (Oxford)
5:00 Reception
7:00 Conference Dinner at the Somers Town Coffee House, Chalton Street
Hosted by the Department of
Scandinavian Studies
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