Abstrakt
Section I (3 days) - Pre-Modern literature had the topic "Boundaries and transformations in Old Norse genres - synchronic and diachronic perspectives". Dealing with literary medieval text, genre question might by seen as crucial even if the genres are fluent categories interfering and overlapping each other .They might be important for understanding the topics and an useful tool of structuring the corpus of preserved literature.
Genres discussed were: lying saga and contemporary sagas, different genres of poetry and thaettir. The participants were literary scientists, historians and historians of religion.
Interdisciplinarity is a common phenomenon in the sphere of Old Norse research and might be fruitfull if it is reflected. Also in this context the theme that has been chosen can open new perspectives from both sides: an apeal to the history of religion that all the concepts we try to talk about are always abtractions from conrete literary texts and that the context incl. genre in what they appear should not be neglected - and on the other hand that there are some tendecies, similarities and differencies across/ behind the literary texts that are interesting and worth looking.
Theme for the Section II - Modern Scandinavian Literature (1 days) was "Modernity in Modern Scandinavian literature" and mostly the Danish Modernists were discussed.