Previous Hermann Pálsson Lectures are listed here:
Year | Name | Title | NS issue |
2024 | Colleen Batey | ‘Life Without Borders? The Viking and Late Norse Northern Isles of Scotland’ | |
2023 | Terry Gunnell | ‘Floating High Seat Pillars and the Settlement of Iceland: Fact, Fake News or Folklore?’ | |
2022 | Donna Heddle | ‘”Anither scone, mynheer?”: The Linguistic Legacy in Scots of the North Sea Economic Networks’ | |
2021 | Graeme Morton | ‘The Climatic Motive for Leaving Scotland: c.1770-c.1890’ | 53 |
2020 | Astrid Ogilvie | ‘Weather as Magic and Metaphor in the Sagas of Icelanders’ | |
2019 | Poul Holm | ‘Novel Wealth – Iceland, Faroes, Shetland, and the Cod, c. 1450-1750′ | 52 |
2018 | Gísli Sigurðsson | ‘Hermann Pálsson’s Breakthrough and the Big Questions in Saga Scholarship’ | |
2017 | Margaret MacKay | ‘Vestur-Íslendingar: The Icelanders of Manitoba’ | 50 |
2016 | Gillian Fellows-Jensen | ‘Cross-cultural Links and Bonds of Friendship’ | 49 |
2015 | Ted Cowan | ‘Last Exit from Largs 1263: The Battle in Context’ | |
2014 | Brian Smith | ‘How Not to Reconstruct the Iron Age in Shetland: Interpretations of Clickhimin Broch, 1953-2008’ | 47 |
2013 | Barbara E. Crawford | ‘Moving around the Northern Earldoms – Maintaining Contact and Control in Viking-Age Orkney and North Scotland’ | |
2012 | Steve Murdoch | ‘The Scots in Early Modern Scandinavia – A Review’ | 44 |
2011 | Arne Kruse | ‘Columba and Jonah – a Motif in the Dispersed Art of Iona’ | 44 |
2010 | Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir | ‘”So is all the world a story”: An Icelandic Storyteller’s Life and Stories’ | 43 |
2009 | Judith Jesch | ‘”True tales”: Poetry and the Writing of Orkneyinga saga‘ | |
2008 | Peter Graves | ‘”Gigantic grandeur” or “Odd, boring, morbid and obscene”: Aspects of the Reception of Scandinavian Literature in Britain’ | 42 |
2007 | Ole-Didrik Laerum | ‘The Blackhouse and Røykstova: A Common North Sea Tradition’ | 41 |
2006 | Hafliði Hallgrimsson | ‘The Whirld of Incidences’ | |
2005 | Paul Bibre | ‘Laxdaela Saga: the Shape of an Icelandic Romance’ |