Edited by Anthony Faulkes and Richard Perkins, 1993, ISBN 978 0 903521 28 4
On 13-15th May 1992 the Viking Society for Northern Research celebrated its 100th anniversary with a Centenary Symposium in London. Distinguished speakers representing the major branches of Old Norse studies reviewed the state of the field. Their papers are reproduced in this volume.
Contents
CENTENARY REVALUATIONS
Knut Helle. ‘Norway, 800-1200’.
Gunnar Karlsson. ‘A Century of Research on Early Icelandic Society’.
Vésteinn Ólason. ‘The Sagas of Icelanders’.
Diana Whaley. ‘The Kings’ Sagas’.
Michael Barnes. ‘Norse in the British Isles’.
Christine Fell. ‘Norse studies: then, now and hereafter’.
CURRENT PROBLEMS (1): PAGAN BELIEFS AND CHRISTIAN IMPACT
Bjarne Fidjestøl. ‘The contribution of scaldic studies’.
Ursula Dronke. ‘The contribution of Eddic studies’.
Else Roesdahl. ‘Pagan beliefs, Christian impact and archaeology—a Danish view’.
Peter Foote. ‘Historical studies: conversion moment and conversion period’.
CURRENT PROBLEMS (2): SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY 800-1100
R. I. Page. ‘Scandinavian society, 800–1100: the contribution of runic studies’.
Judith Jesch. ‘Skaldic verse and Viking semantics’.
Preben Meulengracht Sørensen. ‘Historical reality and literary form’.
Bjørn Myhre. ‘The beginning of the Viking Age—some current archaeological problems’.
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