Research Areas

• Concept of Body in the Old Norse Literature

• Scandinavia Ballads

• Translation Theory and Praxis – Focus on Rendering Proper Names

• Genre Differences among Icelandic Saga Genres

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Education

• 2014–2018: PhD. studies, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Natural Sciences, Charles University

• 1992–1998: Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University

• 1993–1999: Norwegian language and literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Stays Abroad

• 2020: University in Wien, 1 months (concept of hamr)

• 2016: University of Iceland, 2 months (Shape-changing in ON literature)

• 2015: University of Zurich, German Dept., 7 months (Concept of body in ON literature)

• 1999: Museum of Natural Sciences, Paris, 6 months (research on early theories of evolution, 6 months)

• 1998: Danish Folklore Institute, Copenhagen, 6 months (research and translation of Scandinavian medieval ballads)

• 1995–1996: University of Iceland, 10 months, (studies of Old Norse and modern Icelandic language)

Memberships

• Research Council Faroe Islands: reviewer expert (since 2025)

• The Icelandic Research Fund: reviewer expert, panel "Humanities and arts" (since 2022)

• International Saga Society (member of Advisory Board, 2012-2022 )

• Viking society for Northern research (member since 2013)

• Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages FF UK (member since 2017)

• CMS – Fellow since 2022.

• UNCE: University Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Ancient and Medieval Thought Tradition (team member since 2018)

• Překladatelé Severu (member since 2018)

• RVVI – Evaluation Panel of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation (member of panel 02 SHVb - Humanities 2014-2017)

Selected publications

• Relation of Soul and Body, in: Nordvig, M. V., Torfing, L. H. (eds.), The 15^th International Saga Conference, Sagas and the Use of the Past, Aarhus University: Aarhus 2012, pp. 244-246.

• Novotná, M., Starý, J.: Rendering Old Norse names in translation into West-Slavic Languages. Scripta Islandica 65 (2014), pp. 213-236.

• Hamr of the Old Norse body, in: Glauser, J. et al. (eds), The 16^th International Saga Conference, Sagas and Space, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Skandinavische Studien: Zurich and Basel 2015, pp. 223-224.

• Islandské rodové ságy, in: Staroislandské ságy, Praha: Garamond 2015, pp. 7-17. /Icelandic Family Sagas/

• Adaptation of foreign words into Czech: the case of Icelandic proper names. Orð og tunga 18 (2016), pp. 111–129

• Body description as a genre marker: Jómsvíkinga saga, in: Müller-Wille K., Heslop K., Richter A. K., Rösli L. (eds.), Skandinavische Schriftlandschaften, Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie bd. 59, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2017, pp. 68-71.

• Role of the Body - Scandinavian Ballads vs. Old Norse Literature, in: Malan Marnersdóttir et al. (eds.), Ballads. New approaches, Tórshavn: Faroe University Press, 2018, pp. 293-305.

• Psychosomatické jevy v staroseverské literatuře. Revue pro psychoanalytikou psychoterapii a psychoanalýzu 20 (2018), pp. 48-64. /Psychosomatic phenomena in Old Norse Literature/

• Pojetí těla v staroseverské literatuře, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2019. /Concept of Body in Old Norse Literature/

• Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory , Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica, 2020/1, pp. 9-22

• Novotná, M.- Vilímová, J.- Štys, P., Nymphal development and diagnostics, and biology of three European Ceratocombidae and Dipsocoridae species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha), Zoologischer Anzeiger, 2872 (2020), pp. 77-94.

• Riskující čarodějky aneb hrozba ztráty tváře, in: Bažant, Vojtěch, Dynda, Jiří, Šorm, Martin, Šimeček, David (eds.), Staré baby ve středověku. Ženy a čas ve středověké Evropě, Praha:NLN, 2020, pp. 189-198.

• Sága o svatém Óláfovi: vznik, kontext a tradice, in: Sága o svatém Óláfovi, Praha: Garamond, 2021, pp. 7-19. /Óláfs saga helga: composition, context and tradition/.

• Spásná strašidla starých Seveřanů, in: Novotná, M., Tulka, J. (eds.), Hrdinství starých, Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2021, pp. 13-20.

• Novotná, Marie,Tulka, J. (eds.), Hrdinství starých, Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2021, 181p.

• Křesťanská dějeprava a nauka, in: Starý J. et al (eds.), Jen pekla se bojím! Staroseverská křesťanská literatura, Praha: FF UK, 2021, pp. 657-663. / Old Norse Christian literature/

• Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: Between the Monster and the Man, Preternature, 12/2, 2023, 193-196

• Concept of Health in Old Norse Narrative Literature, Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 28, 2023, pp. 221-235.

• Between Body and Soul in Old Norse Literature. Emotions and the Mutability of Form. Turnhout: Brepols. 2024, 221 p.

• Sága o jómských vikinzích. Praha: Vydavatelství FF UK. 2025.

• Finlay Alison, Morawiec, Jakub a Novotná, Marie, eds. Studies in Jómsvíkinga saga. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026.

• The role of the body in Jómsvíkinga saga. In: Finlay Alison, Morawiec, Jakub a Novotná, Marie, eds. Studies in Jómsvíkinga saga. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2026, 99–120.