THE 3RD JÓMSBORG CONFERENCE
EYSTRA SALT – THE BALTIC ZONE IN THE LITERATURES OF THE MEDIEVAL NORTH
Wolin (Poland), 19-20 May 2023
Friday, 19 May 2023
10.00 Opening
10.15 Keynote lecture
Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu): Viking Age Baltic Sea in Sagas, Documents, and Archaeology. A Methodological Discussion on Interdisciplinarity
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Session I
Jonas Koesling (University of Iceland): The Sea to the East: A Sea-Critical Discussion of the eystra salt in Mediæval Nordic Writing
Sabine Heidi Walter (University of Bonn): How Far to Troy? Austrvegr in Learned Icelandic Literature and Political Discourse
Piergiorgio Consagra (University of Iceland): Eystrasalt, Austrvegr, Bálagarðssíða: The Baltic Zone in Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 Session II
Maja Gąssowska (The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences): Medieval »Old Livonia« in Scandinavian saga-records
Mihai Dragnea (University of South-Eastern Norway): Cistercian abbeys in Pomerania and their impact on colonization in the second half of the twelfth century
Ugnius Vizgirda Mikučionis (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): The image of Curonians (Kúrir) in some King’s sagas, such as Knýtlinga saga, and some legendary sagas, such as Sǫrla saga sterka
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Session III
Leszek Słupecki (University of Rzeszów): Wichmann. The first (real) Viking of Jomsborg (Wolin)
Łukasz Neubauer (Koszalin University of Technology): In search of the Wulfings, the elusive tribe of the Baltic region
18.00 Conference dinner
Saturday, 20 May 2023
9.30 Session IV
Carina Damm (Leipzig University / GWZO Leipzig): Prybrode: Materialising Cultural Transfer in the Medieval Circum-Baltic
Jakub Morawiec (University of Silesia): Vinðakonungar. West-Slavonic rulers in the Old Norse tradition
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Session V
Marcin Böhm (University of Opole): Burgundaholmr from the Jomsborg and the Scandinavian perspective. The role of the Bornholm island in the 10th and 11th centuries, in the light of Scandinavian and other sources
Maciej Lubik (University of Zielona Góra): A Viking and Grœna Salt. Óláfr Haraldsson’s voyaging over the Baltic in skaldic poetry and sagas
Viktória Gyönki (Eötvös Loránd University / Klauzál Cultural House, Budapest): The origin of Guta saga – An analysis of parallel stories
12.15 Lunch break
13.45 Session VI
Marta Rey-Radlińska (Jagiellonian University): Jarisleif as fosterfather. The depiction of Yaroslav the Wise in Morkinskinna
Annett Krakow (University of Silesia): Aspects of leadership in Eymundar þáttr Hringssonar
14.45 Coffee break
15.00 Session VII
Grzegorz Bartusik (University of Silesia): Ingibjörg’s dream in The Saga of the Jomsvikings (chapter 8)
Remigiusz Gogosz (University of Silesia): The king at the game board. The motif of playing a board game in the Knýtlinga saga
16.00 Final discussion