CRASSH

Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period

Friday, 13 March 2009 to Sunday, 15 March 2009
Location: Faculty of English

Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period

Programme

Location : Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Date: 13-15 March 2009

	On Thursday 12 March the conference is preceded by the Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse, and Celtic's Annual Chadwick Lecture to be delivered by Professor Richard Sharpe (Faculty of History University of Oxford) at 17.00.
Friday 13 March
8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	Official opening by Professor Simon Franklin, Department of Slavonic Studies and Chairman of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge
9.15-10.00 10.00-10.45	Panel 1: Vikings Abroad Dr Clare Downham, Department of Celtic, University of Aberdeen Political interaction between Vikings and Irish: the location of Viking camps Dr Colmán Etchingham, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth The Sea Stallion of Glendalough; the significance of ‘Skuldelev 2’ in the development of Viking ship technology
10.45-11.15	Tea/coffee Break
11.15-12.00 12.00-12.45	Panel 2: The Literary Tradition Dr Ralph O’Connor, Department of History, University of Aberdeen Transforming tradition: lustful stepmothers in insular narrative Professor Jan-Erik Rekdal, Institute for Linguistics and Nordic Studies, University of Oslo Fianna bátar i nEmain and Ynglingatal revisited
12.45-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.45 14.45-15.30	Panel 3: Maritime Contacts Professor John Hines, School of History and Archaeology, University of Cardiff The Development of Navigation in and around the Bristol Channel, 9th to 11th Centuries Professor Judith Jesch, School of English, University of Nottingham From the Minch to Man: Norse poetry and the Hebrides
15.30-16.00	Tea/coffee Break
16.00-16.45	Panel 4: Gaelic-Scandinavian Relations Dr Fiona Edmonds, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge Hiberno-Scandinavian influence east of the Pennines
16.45-17.30	Dr David Griffiths, Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford Landscape, symbolism and identity around the Viking-Age Irish Sea

Saturday 14 March
9.15-10.00	Panel 3: Orkney Dr James Barrett, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge Power, conversion and the Viking-Age diaspora: Orkney in its insular context
10.00-10.45	Professor Russell Poole, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada Irish elements in the ideology of the early Orkney earldom
10.45-11.15	Tea/coffee Break
11.15-12.00 12.00-12.45	Panel 6: Runes Professor Terje Spurkland, Institute for Linguistics and Nordic Studies, University of Oslo Rune stones in an Anglo-Saxon-Norse and Norse-Celtic perspective Dr Cathy Swift, Director of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick The riddle of the runes: Ogam Lochlannach and Gallogam
12.45-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.45 14.45-15.30	Panel 7: Comparing Old Norse and Medieval Irish Literatures Mr Michael Chesnutt, Rome Caoilte in Iceland – Gaelic folklore in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar Professor Rudolf Simek, Institute for Germanic and Scandinavian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany An Irish princess in Norway and her German 0rigins
15.30-16.00	Tea/coffee Break
16.00-16.30 16.45-17.30	Round Table Discussion Based on the paper of Professor Erich Poppe, Department of Comparative Linguistics and Celtic Studies, University of Marburg, Germany: The Insular versions of Dares's "De excidio Troiae historia: some similarities and some differences

Sunday 15 March
10.45-10.45	Panel 8: Numismatics Dr Mark A.S. Blackburn, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge The impact of the Vikings on monetary circulation in Ireland and Britain
10.45-11.15	Tea/coffee Break
11.15-12.00 12.00-12.45	Panel 9: The Twelfth Century and Beyond Dr Ian Beuermann, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo Dynasty, túath and God’s grace: Manx kingship in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge Across the divide: the transformation of 'Vikings' in twelfth and thirteenth-century literary texts
12.45-14.00	Lunch
14.00- 14.45 14.45-15.30	Concluding Session Professor Jón Vidar Sigurdsson, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo The View from the North Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford The View from the West
	Other Events Viking Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum: Dr Mark Blackburn has offered to show elements of the collection of Viking coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum to delegates on Thursday, March 12th at 3pm and on Monday, March 16th at 11am. If you would like to join either of the tours, please contact Dr Blackburn directly at mab1001@cam.ac.uk. Dr Debby Banham will take delegates on a walking tour of Anglo-Saxon and medieval Cambridge on Sunday, March 15th, leaving the Faculty of English, 9 West Road after the conference proceedings have finished. If you would like to join this tour, please let one of the organisers or student helpers know. Conference Dinner For those who have registered for the conference dinner, it will be held in the Wordsworth Room, St John’s College, on Saturday, March 11th, at 19.00 for 19.30 (dinner).