[Gandur] Ráðstefna 19. september

[Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir]

„Út vil ek“
Frá skosku eyjunum til Íslands og annarra í norðri.
Ráðstefna um menningarleg tengsl milli skosku eyjanna og Norðurlanda  
frá miðöldum til dagsins í dag.
Norræna húsið í Reykjavík
19. september 2009


Dagskrá


09:00 - 09:30
Norræna húsið opnar með morgunkaffi

09.30 - 09:40
Ráðstefna sett: Þorvaldur S. Þorvaldsson

09:40 - 09:50
Katrín Jakobsdóttir ráðherra menningar- og menntamála ávarpar  
ráðstefnugesti

09.50 - 10:20
Terry Gunnell: Goats, Grýla, Gruleks and Skeklers: Shetland Disguise  
Traditions and their Nordic and Gaelic Connections
The lecture will contain a brief review of the nature and role of  
disguise traditions (guising/ mumming traditions) that are still  
practised in certain parts of Shetland at certain seasonal festivals  
(Halloween, Christmas and New Year) and also at weddings. As will be  
noted, these traditions offer a cultural bridge between the Nordic and  
Gaelic cultural worlds, offering not only early connections with the  
Icelandic figure of Grýla and the Faroese grýlur, but also close  
connections with the Irish strawboys traditions and other Nordic  
traditions centring around goat figures.

10.20 - 10:50
Bo Almqvist: The Seal Woman Legend – a Folklore Link between the  
British Isles and the West Nordic area.
Exchanges of folk traditions between the Scandinavian countries and  
the British Isles have been intensive and go far back. Not least does  
this hold true about migratory legends (flökkusagnir), In this lecture  
a look will be taken at one such legend, The Seal Woman (Selkonan).  
and an attempt will be made to trace its migration from the \Western  
World  to the Northern World and the development it underwent in the  
process.

10.50 - 11:10
Kaffihlé

11:10 - 11:40
Þorvaldur Friðriksson: Mountains and Valleys in Iceland Carry Gaelic  
Place Names
Many terms employed in Icelandic are not to be found in Danish,  
Norwegian or Swedish. Examples include important words such as strákur  
(boy) and stelpa (girl). Many Icelandic words seem to originate in  
Gaelic, and on close inspection appear more numerous than previously  
estimated. Words of Gaelic origin are found in Iceland as place names  
for bayous, mountains, rivers, farms and  estates.

11.40 - 12:00
Umræður

12.00 - 13:30
Hádegisverður
13.30 - 14:00
Eyðun Andreassen: The Captured Princess and her Secret Knowledge.
The part of the girl to be rescued in fairy tales seems often to be  
underestimated and her role in her own rescue even ignored. In many  
tales she plays a key role even if she is not mentioned up to the very  
moment, when she is found in the giant’s cave or in similar places.  
Then she reveals secret knowledge, necessary for the boy to fulfill  
this part of his quest. In my lecture I shall discuss aspects of her  
part in the tales and how it is treated in scholarly literature.
14.00 -14:30
Rosemary Power: Theft, Faith and Fraud: A View of the Norse -Gaelic   
Hebrides in the Early Thirteenth Century.
This paper examines three incidents in the early thirteenth-century  
Hebrides as recounted from Scandianiavian and Gaelic perspectives. It  
considers how the writers received their information and whether they  
knew of each other’s accounts.

14.30 - 14:40
Kaffihlé

14:40 - 15:10
John Shaw: The Return Song Theme with Special Reference to Scottish  
Gaelic and Nordic Traditions
This presentation will provide a brief comparative background of the  
Return Song Theme followed by a survey with commentary of its  
distribution and variants in Scotland, Ireland and the Nordic countries.

15.10 - 15:40
Gísli Sigurðsson: Salmon fishing and Gaelic influence in Iceland
In my presentation, I shall look at stories and memories about people  
in the settlement period in Iceland who came from the Gaelic parts of   
the British Isles and are associated with successful salmon-fishing  
in  places where those who came from Norway caught nothing. In  
connection with that, I will discuss the places settled by people from  
the British Isles in relation to salmon rivers in Iceland.

15.40 - 16:00
Umræður

16:00 – 16:50
Brynhildur Guðjónsdóttir leikkona og Pétur Grétarsson tónlistarmaður  
flytja gallísk lög ásamt hundheiðnu efni úr Hávamálum, Rígsþulu,  
Alvíssmálum og Grímnismálum allt úr leikritinu Brák.

16.50 - 17:30
Ráðstefnuslit og móttaka.

Ráðstefnustjóri: Ragnheiður H. Þórarinsdóttir


Ráðstefnan er öllum opin og fer fram á ensku.
Vinsamlegast skráið ykkur á norden at norden.is

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