Previous Pálsson Lectures

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’