Félag um átjándu aldar fræði (the Icelandic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is holding a symposium
under the title
New research on Icelandic folk belief in later centuries
in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor,
on Saturday 14 February 2015.
The symposium begins at 13:30 and ends no later than 16:30.
There will be four talks, as follows:
Disabled people with special and supernatural abilities
Eva Þórdís Ebenezersdóttir, folklorist
Belief in fylgjur (guardian spirits) after the Reformation
Hrefna Sigríður Bjartmarsdóttir, folklorist
COFFEE BREAK
Classifying the unclassifiable: natural science and folklore in the 19th century
Ármann Jakobsson, Professor of Early Icelandic Literature
On spirits in history and the mind
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Associate Professor of Folkloristics
Chair: Gunnar Þór Bjarnason, historian