<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">„Út vil ek“</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Frá skosku eyjunum til Íslands og annarra í norđri.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Ráđstefna um menningarleg tengsl milli skosku eyjanna og Norđurlanda frá miđöldum til dagsins í dag.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Norrćna húsiđ í Reykjavík </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">19. september 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><br>
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Dagskrá</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">09:00 - 09:30 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Norrćna húsiđ opnar međ morgunkaffi</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">09.30 - 09:40</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Ráđstefna sett: <b>Ţorvaldur S. Ţorvaldsson </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">09:40 - 09:50 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Katrín Jakobsdóttir</b> ráđherra menningar- og menntamála ávarpar ráđstefnugesti</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">09.50 - 10:20</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Terry Gunnell</b>: <i>Goats, Grýla, Gruleks and Skeklers: Shetland Disguise Traditions and their Nordic and Gaelic Connections </i></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana">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 <i>grýlur</i>, but also close connections with the Irish strawboys traditions and other Nordic traditions centring around goat figures.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">10.20 - 10:50 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Bo Almqvist</b>: <i>The Seal Woman Legend – a Folklore Link between the British Isles and the West Nordic area.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">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 (<i>flökkusagnir</i>), In this lecture a look will be taken at one such legend, The Seal Woman (<i>Selkonan</i>). 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.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">10.50 - 11:10</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Kaffihlé</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">11:10 - 11:40</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Ţorvaldur Friđriksson</b>: <i>Mountains and Valleys in Iceland Carry Gaelic Place Names</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Many terms employed in Icelandic are not to be found in Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. Examples include important words such as <i>strákur</i> (boy) and <i>stelpa</i> (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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">11.40 - 12:00</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Umrćđur</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">12.00 - 13:30</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Hádegisverđur</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">13.30 - 14:00 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Eyđun Andreassen</b>: <i>The Captured Princess and her Secret Knowledge.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">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<span style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman">’</span>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.<br>
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">14.00 -14:30</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Rosemary Power</b>: <i>Theft, Faith and Fraud: A View of the Norse -Gaelic Hebrides in the Early Thirteenth Century.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">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<span style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman">’</span>s accounts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">14.30 - 14:40</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Kaffihlé</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">14:40 - 15:10</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>John Shaw</b>: <i>The Return Song Theme with Special Reference to Scottish Gaelic and Nordic Traditions</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Courier New'; min-height: 11px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">15.10 - 15:40 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Gísli Sigurđsson</b>: <i>Salmon fishing and Gaelic influence in Iceland</i> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">15.40 - 16:00</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Umrćđur</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">16:00 – 16:50</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; "><b>Brynhildur Guđjónsdóttir</b> leikkona og <b>Pétur Grétarsson</b> tónlistarmađur flytja gallísk lög ásamt hundheiđnu efni úr Hávamálum, Rígsţulu, Alvíssmálum og Grímnismálum allt úr leikritinu Brák.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">16.50 - 17:30</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Ráđstefnuslit og móttaka.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ">Ráđstefnustjóri: <b>Ragnheiđur H. Ţórarinsdóttir</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Ráđstefnan er öllum opin og fer fram á ensku. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 13.5px/normal Garamond; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Vinsamlegast skráiđ ykkur á <span style="font: 10.0px Verdana; text-decoration: underline"><a href="mailto:norden@norden.is">norden@norden.is</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Verdana" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>