Á austrvega: Saga and East Scandinavia. Preprint papers of The 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, 9th-15th August 2009

Here is a list of English-language papers which have been published in full in this volume:

Mirrors of the Self – Deconstructing Bipolarity in the Late Icelandic Romances, by Hendrik Lambertus
Troll and Ethnicity in Egils saga, by Paul S. Langeslag
Stjúpmoeðrasögur and Sigurðr\'s Daughters, by Carolyne Larrington
Scribal Presence in Eggertsbók and Modern Editorial Attitudes, by Emily Lethbridge
Gendered memory – Rune stones, early Christian grave monuments and the Sagas, by Cecilia Ljung
The Gutnic runkalender and the ancient system of time calculus, by Maria Cristina Lombardi
Óðinn\'s Role as a Guarantor of Law and Order in Norse Texts, by Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo
Royal Descent from Odin, by Emily Lyle
\"Archaic\" Assonance in the Strophes of Ragnarr Loðbróks Family and Other Early Skalds, by Mikael Males
The kauphús of Peter the Apostle in leiðarvísir: A Market or a Scribal Error?, by Tommaso Marani
Kenn mér réttan veg til þess kastala er Artús konungr sitr í: References to Kingship in the Old French Conte du Graal and its Old Norse and Middle English Adaptations, by Suzanne Marti
The Valtari story in Þidriks Saga af Bern: sources and parallels, by Inna Matyushina
Overcoming Óðinn: the Conversion Episode in Njáls saga, by Bernadine McCreesh
Alu and hale II: \'May Thor bless\', by Bernard Mees
Óláfr soenski and his skalds in Old Norse tradition, by Jakub Morawiec
Time-reckoning, ritual time and the symbolism of numbers in Adam of Bremen’s account of the great sacrifice in Old Uppsala, by Andreas Nordberg
Imagining the Kalmar union: Nordic politics as viewed from a late 15th-century Icelandic manuscript, by Hans Jacob Orning
Runic Literacy and Viking-age Orality, by Rune Palm
West Slavic toponyms in Knýtlinga saga: orthographic adaptations or orthographic mistakes?, by Aleksandra Petrulevich
The East as a Model for the West: Translation Method and Aims in Alexanders saga, by Jonatan Pettersson
Hair Loss, the Tonsure, and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland, by Carl Phelpstead
The Thidrekssaga and the birth of the first Russian state, by Alessio Piccinini
Suffering a sea-change: poetic justice in Egill\'s Sonatorrek, by Debbie Potts
Betrothal and betrayal: the eddic tradition\'s treatment of Sigurðr, by Judy Quinn
Grettir the Deep: Traditional Referentiality and Characterisation in the Íslendingasögur, by Slavica Ranković
The women and Óðinn, by Margareta Regebro
A Hagiographical Reading of Egils saga, by Philip Roughton
Coming to Grips with the Beast, by Carrie Roy
Brenna at Upsälum: the Denial of Cosmos, by Giovanna Salvucci
The \"Wild East\" in Late Medieval Icelandic Romances – Just a Prop(p)?, by Werner Schäfke
Man as the Measure of All Things: The Relationship Between Mankind and the Gods in Eddic Wisdom Poetry, by Brittany Schorn
Germanic alliteration and oral theory, by Michael Schulte
Saga Accounts of Violence-motivated Far-travel, by John Shafer
Per sortes ac per equum. Lot-casting and hippomancy in the North after saga narratives and medieval chronicles, by Leszek P. Słupecki
Fornaldarsögur and the concept of literacy, by Terje Spurkland
Aspects of editing skaldic verse: The case of Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings, by Rolf Stavnem
Sigurðr Fáfnisbani as commemorative motif, by Marjolein Stern
Is Óðinn really \'alles fader\'?, by Mathias Strandberg
Though this be madness, yet there\'s method in\'t: aspects of word order in skaldic kennings, by Ilya V. Sverdlov
Centre and Periphery in Icelandic Medieval Discourse, by Sverrir Jakobsson
The Versions of Böglunga saga, by Þorleifur Hauksson
Magic in sagas: the curses of Katla and Glámr, by Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen
Earl Hákon of Orkney\'s Journey to Sweden, by Maria-Claudia Tomany
\"Ærið gott gömlum og feigum.\" Seeking death in Njáls saga, by Torfi H. Tulinius
Sturla the trickster, by Úlfar Bragason
The Genealogies of West-Icelandic Family Sagas and their relation to the Sturlung family, by Jens Ulff-Møller
From the History of the Obscene: Evident and concealed meanings of the nickname Þambarskelfir, by Fjodor Uspenskij
Hrólfs saga kraka – A History of Editing, by Tereza Vachunová
The Archaeological Material Culture behind the Sagas, by Helena Victor
The reproduction of Old Icelandic close front rounded vowels in a 17th c. manuscript (AM 105 fol) of a part of Hauksbók (AM 371 4to), by Francesco Vitti
Further Remarks on Ohthere\'s Beormas, by Vilmos Voigt
Estranged Bedfellows: Saga Scholarship and Archaeological Research in Iceland, by Elisabeth Ida Ward
Kormáks saga and the naming of Scarborough – a likely story?, by Diana Whaley
The Development of Skaldic Language, by Tarrin Wills
Parody and genre in sagas of Icelanders, by Kendra Willson
Towards a Diachronic Analysis of Old Norse-Icelandic Color Terms: The Cases of Green and Yellow, by Kirsten Wolf
Kenning construal as a criterion for the stemmatic analysis of the Codex Upsaliensis in the transmission of Snorra Edda, by Bryan Weston Wyly
Hildibrandr húnakappi and Ásmundr kappabani in Icelandic sagas and Faroese ballads, by Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir-Yershova
Håkon Jarl Ivarsson and Roðr, by Torun Zachrisson
On the symbiosis of orality and literacy in some Christian rune stone inscriptions, by Kristel Zilmer