COLSONOEL 2013
Cambridge, Oxford & London Symposium in Old Norse, Old English and Latin
Friday 17th May 2013
Room FC 132, Foster Court, University College London
9.30am - 5pm
Programme
9.30 Arrival 10 - 11.30 Session 1
Chair: Lucy Keens
Tom Hoctor (UCL) Einar Ól. Sveinsson vs. Bishop Guðmundr Arason: The case for the defence
James Lloyd (CAMBRIDGE) Words of Power: Titles of Offices in 9th and 10th Century England
Stefany Wragg (OXFORD) A Trinity of Women, or Three Ladies Alone?
11.30 - 12 Tea break
12 - 1 Session 2
Chair: Louisa Taylor
Robert Gallagher (CAMBRIDGE) King Alfred, Christ and the End of the World: An Exploration of
the Themes of Two Anglo-Latin Acrostics
Samantha Berstler (OXFORD) ‘En þó munu vér þat bragðs taka’: Höskuldr’s Cloak, Christianity,
and the Ethos of Feud in Brennu-Njáls saga
1 - 1.45 Lunch 1.45 - 2.30
Poster Session
Louisa Taylor (UCL) ‘...hann gaf hverjum grið er þess beiddi’: Some observations on the treatment of
opponents during war in the Kings’ Sagas
Alex Franklin (OXFORD) ‘et hic defunctus est’: Edward the Confessor’s function in the Bayeux Tapestry
Lucy Keens (UCL) Loose tongues: sexual gossip and scandal in Íslendingasögur and samtíðasögur
2.30 - 3.30
Session 3
Chair: Tom Hoctor
Gareth Evans (OXFORD) Masculinist Bias in the Representations of the Icelandic landnám
Tim Flight (OXFORD) The Seafarer as Meditative Text
3.30 - 4
Tea break
4 - 5
Session 4
Chair: Louisa Taylor
Rebecca Merkelbach (CAMBRIDGE) The Outlaw and His Kin: The Role of the Family in Three
Icelandic Outlaw Sagas
Alice Hicklin (CAMBRIDGE) ‘He told him the whole story of his sufferings and exile’: The exilic experience
in Stephen of Ripon’s Vita sancti Wilfridi
5 Pub
Registration
Please email colsonoel2013@gmail.com to indicate your interest in attending along with any dietary restrictions.
Lunch, snacks and alcohol will be provided.
COLSONOEL 2013 is organised by Louisa Taylor, Tom Hoctor & Lucy Keens,
with generous support from the Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (FIGS).
colsonoel2013@gmail.com