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Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir - Assistant Professor

Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir

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Hugvísindasvið

Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir

Assistant Professor

of Icelandic Literature

Location
Edda
Phone
525 - 4496
Email
brynjath [at] hi.is

Unit
Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website
https://english.hi.is/staff/brynjath
Published Work
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir - published work

Curriculum Vitae
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-5604
Research portal – Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir

Published works

2024

„Ég er enn að hugsa um að byrja aftur“: Ástæður brotthvarfs meðal háskólanema í Íslensku sem öðru máliNetla
Jóns saga leiksveins: A Text and Translation
„Ég er enn að hugsa um að byrja aftur“: Brotthvarf meðal háskólanema í Íslensku sem öðru máliHugvísindaþing 2024
Quantifying Feelings: Data on Emotive Words in Saga PoetryDHNB2024 Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
Quantifying FeelingsDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications

2023

Emotive Bodily Imagery in the Poetry of the ÍslendingasögurWhy Prosimetrum?
Tilfinningar, gróteska og trúarlærdómur í íslenskum miðaldasögumHugvísindaþing 2023
Grotesque Emotions in Old Norse Literature: Swelling Bodies, Spurting Fluids, Tears of Hail
“Eyrsilfr drukkit, þat gerir bana”: The Earliest Old Norse Medical Book, AM 655 xxx 4to, and its ContextGripla

2022

Prosimetric Saga Feelings: An Examination of Expressions in the Verse and Prose of the Íslendingasögur
Heimsfræðileg mynd af manninum – bakhlið blaðs nr. 6 í GKS 1812 4to
Investigating the Íslendingasögur as ProsimetrumViking and Medieval Scandinavia

2021

Pride – ofsiSaga Emotions Workshop
The Interaction of Verse and Prose in Njáls sagaPostdoctoral Research Seminar, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
„Þá munu geitur hverfa og hár vaxa“: Læknisráð í AM 673 a II 4to
Emotion words in Njáls saga and Egils saga. Construction of an Emotional Lexis

2020

Emotions in Njáls saga and Egils saga
The Language of Feeling in Njáls saga and Egils saga : Construction of an Emotional LexisScripta Islandica
The Íslendingasögur as Prosimetrum (ÍSP): An Overview of a New Collaborative ProjectMálstofa Stofnunar Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, December 11, 2020
Emotions of a Vulnerable Viking: Negotiations of Masculinity in Egils saga
The Head, the Heart, and the Breast: Bodily Conceptions of Emotion and Cognition in Old Norse Skaldic PoetryViking and Medieval Scandinavia

2018

Humoral Theory in the Medieval NorthGripla
Anger in Njáls saga: Body, Words and GenderThe 12th Bergen International Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies
Ideas of Body and Emotions: Accessing Feelings in the Íslendingasögur17th International Saga Conference
Humoral Theory in the Medieval North

2017

Embodied Emotions in the Sagas of IcelandersInaugural Cambridge Trust – Clare Hall Talks

2016

Sorrowful Heroes: Melancholy in the Time of Snorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson´s Authorship and Afterlife

2015

Elskhuginn ástsjúki Egill Skalla-GrímssonSkírnir : tímarit Hins íslenska bókmenntafélags
„Gerðist Egill ókátur, þögull og drakk oftast lítt.“ Ástsýki í Eglu og fleiri miðaldabókmenntum

2014

Orðbragð

2012

Samtal yfir tvö þúsund ár: Um tengsl Skugga-Baldurs og Ummyndana ÓvíðsTímarit Máls og menningar

Keywords for Specialisation:

Old Norse Literature

Prosimetrum in Old Norse-Icelandic literature

History of Emotions

Sagas of Icelanders

Old Norse mythology

Literary theory

Medieval Nordic science