Lecture "Islands, Narrative and Feelings, with special reference to Sámsey"

Faculty of Humanities invites you to the lecture "Islands, Narrative and Feelings, with special reference to Sámsey" by Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford).

Abstract: Islands are, by definition, particularly marked-out spaces in the landscapes of Norse imaginative literature. They feature prominently in certain sagas, are absent in others, and as I will argue have a particular role in heroic and mythological poetry. Certain events happen on islands, or symbolic representations of islands, and these have particular emotional resonances for participants and readers. In this session I will present some ideas about Sámsey as one such site, and we will workshop an extension of the arguments to other islands in other Old Norse narrative forms.

Dr. Carolyne Larrington teaches medieval English literature at St John`s College, ranging from the earliest Old English to the beginning of the Renaissance period. Dr Larrington's research interests are in Old Icelandic literature, medieval women's writing, European Arthurian literature, and, most recently, medieval emotion.