Icelandic humour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Félag um átjándu aldar fræði (the Icelandic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is holding a symposium under the title
Icelandic humour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor,
on Saturday 26 November 2016.
The symposium begins at 13:30 and ends no later than 16:15.
There will be four talks, as follows:
On wit and banter, humour and laughter in Icelandic folk tales
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Professor of Early Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland
Humour in poetry of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Kristján Eiríksson
Research Lecturer at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, now emeritus
COFFEE BREAK
“I am building a cesspit”: on Benedikt Gröndal’s humour
Ármann Jakobsson
Professor of Early Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland
Benedikt Gröndal’s verse letters to Sigríður E. Magnússon
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson
Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland
Chair: Kristín Bragadóttir
doctoral student in history at the University of Iceland
Each talk takes about 20 minutes.
About 10 minutes are set aside for questions and discussion after each talk.
During the break the society offers coffee and refreshments.
Abstracts of the talks will be available at the symposium. They will later
be published on the society’s website,http://fraedi.is/18.oldin/