Á austrvega: Saga and East Scandinavia. Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, 9th-15th August 2009

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In August 2009, Uppsala University hosted the 14th International Saga Conference. The conference was hosted by and arranged through: Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University, University of Gävle, Institute for Language and Folklore, Isländska sällskapet. Here is a list of English-language papers which have been published in full in this volume: Mirrors of the Self – Deconstructing Bipolarity in the Late Icelandic Romances, by Hendrik Lambertus Troll and Ethnicity in Egils saga, by Paul S. Langeslag Stjúpmoeðrasögur and Sigurðr's Daughters, by Carolyne Larrington Scribal Presence in Eggertsbók and Modern Editorial Attitudes, by Emily Lethbridge Gendered memory – Rune stones, early Christian grave monuments and the Sagas, by Cecilia Ljung The Gutnic runkalender and the ancient system of time calculus, by Maria Cristina Lombardi Óðinn's Role as a Guarantor of Law and Order in Norse Texts, by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo Royal Descent from Odin, by Emily Lyle "Archaic" Assonance in the Strophes of Ragnarr Loðbróks Family and Other Early Skalds, by Mikael Males The kauphús of Peter the Apostle in leiðarvísir: A Market or a Scribal Error?, by Tommaso Marani Kenn mér réttan veg til þess kastala er Artús konungr sitr í: References to Kingship in the Old French Conte du Graal and its Old Norse and Middle English Adaptations, by Suzanne Marti The Valtari story in Þidriks Saga af Bern: sources and parallels, by Inna Matyushina Overcoming Óðinn: the Conversion Episode in Njáls saga, by Bernadine McCreesh Alu and hale II: 'May Thor bless', by Bernard Mees Óláfr soenski and his skalds in Old Norse tradition, by Jakub Morawiec Time-reckoning, ritual time and the symbolism of numbers in Adam of Bremen’s account of the great sacrifice in Old Uppsala, by Andreas Nordberg Imagining the Kalmar union: Nordic politics as viewed from a late 15th-century Icelandic manuscript, by Hans Jacob Orning Runic Literacy and Viking-age Orality, by Rune Palm West Slavic toponyms in Knýtlinga saga: orthographic adaptations or orthographic mistakes?, by Aleksandra Petrulevich The East as a Model for the West: Translation Method and Aims in Alexanders saga, by Jonatan Pettersson Hair Loss, the Tonsure, and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland, by Carl Phelpstead The Thidrekssaga and the birth of the first Russian state, by Alessio Piccinini Suffering a sea-change: poetic justice in Egill's Sonatorrek, by Debbie Potts Betrothal and betrayal: the eddic tradition's treatment of Sigurðr, by Judy Quinn Grettir the Deep: Traditional Referentiality and Characterisation in the Íslendingasögur, by Slavica Ranković The women and Óðinn, by Margareta Regebro A Hagiographical Reading of Egils saga, by Philip Roughton Coming to Grips with the Beast, by Carrie Roy Brenna at Upsälum: the Denial of Cosmos, by Giovanna Salvucci The "Wild East" in Late Medieval Icelandic Romances – Just a Prop(p)?, by Werner Schäfke Man as the Measure of All Things: The Relationship Between Mankind and the Gods in Eddic Wisdom Poetry, by Brittany Schorn Germanic alliteration and oral theory, by Michael Schulte Saga Accounts of Violence-motivated Far-travel, by John Shafer Per sortes ac per equum. Lot-casting and hippomancy in the North after saga narratives and medieval chronicles, by Leszek P. Słupecki Fornaldarsögur and the concept of literacy, by Terje Spurkland Aspects of editing skaldic verse: The case of Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings, by Rolf Stavnem Sigurðr Fáfnisbani as commemorative motif, by Marjolein Stern Is Óðinn really 'alles fader'?, by Mathias Strandberg Though this be madness, yet there's method in't: aspects of word order in skaldic kennings, by Ilya V. Sverdlov Centre and Periphery in Icelandic Medieval Discourse, by Sverrir Jakobsson The Versions of Böglunga saga, by Þorleifur Hauksson Magic in sagas: the curses of Katla and Glámr, by Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen Earl Hákon of Orkney's Journey to Sweden, by Maria-Claudia Tomany "Ærið gott gömlum og feigum." Seeking death in Njáls saga, by Torfi H. Tulinius Sturla the trickster, by Úlfar Bragason The Genealogies of West-Icelandic Family Sagas and their relation to the Sturlung family, by Jens Ulff-Møller From the History of the Obscene: Evident and concealed meanings of the nickname Þambarskelfir, by Fjodor Uspenskij Hrólfs saga kraka – A History of Editing, by Tereza Vachunová The Archaeological Material Culture behind the Sagas, by Helena Victor The reproduction of Old Icelandic close front rounded vowels in a 17th c. manuscript (AM 105 fol) of a part of Hauksbók (AM 371 4to), by Francesco Vitti Further Remarks on Ohthere's Beormas, by Vilmos Voigt Estranged Bedfellows: Saga Scholarship and Archaeological Research in Iceland, by Elisabeth Ida Ward Kormáks saga and the naming of Scarborough – a likely story?, by Diana Whaley The Development of Skaldic Language, by Tarrin Wills Parody and genre in sagas of Icelanders, by Kendra Willson Towards a Diachronic Analysis of Old Norse-Icelandic Color Terms: The Cases of Green and Yellow, by Kirsten Wolf Kenning construal as a criterion for the stemmatic analysis of the Codex Upsaliensis in the transmission of Snorra Edda, by Bryan Weston Wyly Hildibrandr húnakappi and Ásmundr kappabani in Icelandic sagas and Faroese ballads, by Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir-Yershova Håkon Jarl Ivarsson and Roðr, by Torun Zachrisson On the symbiosis of orality and literacy in some Christian rune stone inscriptions, by Kristel Zilmer