Thursday, 23 March 2017
08:30 Registration
09:00 Introduction
A. Narrating Law: Legal Texts - Narrative Texts - Contexts
09:30-10:15 Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (Oslo): How can Differences in the Representation of Norms Between Legal and Narrative Texts in the Icelandic Free State be Explained?
10:15-11:00 Jenny Benham (Cardiff): Resolving Conflict in England and Scandinavia: Law, Narration and Practice
11:30-12:15 Hans Jacob Orning (Oslo): Between Fact and Fiction: Disputing in Law, History and Legend
12:15-13:00 Jens Eike Schnall (Bergen): Framing Law in Old Norse Literature
B. Laws of Narration: Narratological Approaches
14:30-15:15 Hartmut Bleumer (Göttingen): Power, Violence, and the Poetics of Injustice in German Heroic Epics
15:15-16:00 Hannah Burrows (Aberdeen): Court Poetry: Narrating Law and Justice in Skaldic Verse
16:30-17:15 Roland Scheel (Göttingen): Text Structure and Legal Norm: Composition and Ethical Values in Saga Literature
17:15-18:00 Kyle Hughes (Dublin): What is 'Good Law'? Law as Communal Performance in the Íslendingasögur
C. Narrating Law: Discourses on Social Norms
18:20-19:05 Mia Münster-Swendsen (Roskilde): Inventing Past Law for the Future: The Lex castrensis of Sven Aggesøn
Friday, 24 March 2017
09:00-09:45 Keith Ruiter (Aberdeen): Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normativity in Eyrbyggja Saga
09:45-10:30 Daniela Hahn (München): The Right of the Little Man? Trials for Thievery and Social Standing in the Sagas of Icelanders
D. Narrating Law: Mythological Traditions
11:00-11:45 Heike Sahm (Göttingen): Things and Justice. Material Objects in Retaliation Plots of Heroic Epic
11:45-12:30 Jiri Starý (Prague): History or Idea? The Legendary Laws of Old Norsemen
13:30-14:15 Anne Irene Riisøy (Buskerud/Vestfold): Law in Old Norse Poetry
14:15-15:00 Matthias Teichert (Erlangen/Göttingen): Týr, Fenrir, and the Brísingamen. Tales of Law, Crime, and Violence in Eddic Mythology and their Indo-European Subcontexts
15:30-16:15 Final Discussion