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Aðalheiður
Guðmundsdóttir (Reykjavík): “‘Nú
er glatt í hverjum hól’”: On how
Icelandic Legends Reflect the Prohibition of Dance”
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Bengt af Klintberg (Stockholm): “Legends of The Transfixed
Dead in Sweden” (Plenary)
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Bo Almqvist (Dublin): “Álfkona í barnsnauð”
(The Midwife to the Elves in Iceland) (Plenary)
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Arne Bugge Amundsen (Oslo): “Translating Narratives:
The Interpretation of Legends in Recent Norwegian Folklore
Studies” (Plenary)
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Eyðun Andreasen (Tórshavn): “Sigmundur
Brestisson in Legend, Ballads and History” (Plenary)
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Pertti J. Anttonen (Turku): “The Legend of Bishop
Henry and the Shaping of Religious Communities”
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Camilla Aspelund (Åbo): “Through the Prism of
Enchantment: The Definition of the Human Community in Finland-Swedish
Legends of the Supernatural”
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Jürgen Beyer (Södertörn): “Nordic Baltic
Heavenly Letters”
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Dr Jenny Blain (Sheffield) and Dr Robert J Wallis (London):
“‘I Born of Giants Remember Very Early’:
Pagan Pasts and New Folklore”
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Carsten Bregenhøj (Vaasa): “The Emigrant Forefather
in Personal Narratives”
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Jenny Butler (Cork, Ireland): “Celtic Legends and
the Irish Neo-Pagan Community”
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Michael Chesnutt (Copenhagen): “The Archetypical Old
Geezer: Other Old Men's Anecdotes about Egill Skallagrímsson”
(Plenary)
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Thomas du Bois (Wisconsin-Madison): “Blessed Are the
Meek: Leniency and Mercy in Sámi Legends”
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Coppélie Cocq (Umeå): “Marriage with
the Supernormal in Saami Legends”
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Davið Erlingsson (Reykjavík): “Loðmundur
and Alskik: Legends of World (Re)Creation in Landnámabók”
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Kelly Fitzgerald (Dublin): “Hunger in Memory: Inherited
Famine Recollections of Irish and Icelandic Diaspora”
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Gísli Sigurðsson (Reykjavík): “***”
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Terry Gunnell (Reykjavik): “The Icelandic Sagnagrunnur
database” (Plenary)
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Lauri Harvilahti (Helsinki, Finland): “***”
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Blanka Henriksson (Åbo): “For Ever and Ever:
A Comparative Study of Motifs of Infinity in Legends and
Friendship Verses”
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David Hopkin (Glasgow): “The Breton Gargantua and
the Battle of the Bourdineaux: The Mobilisation of Legend
in Communal Fishing Disputes”
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Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinson (Reykjavík) “The
Spirit at Hjaltarstaðir”
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Júlíana Magnúsdóttir (Reykjavík):
“Legends from Austur Skaftafellssýsla”*
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Annikki Kaivola Bregenhøj (Turku): “Recent
Personal History as Narratives”
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Eda Kalme (Tartu): “The Social Construction of Reality
on the Basis of the Legendary Tradition after World War
II: The Case of "Sausage Factories"”.
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Kaarina Koski (Finland): “The Boundaries of the Community
in Finnish Belief Legends”
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Heidi Lazar-Meyn (California): “Colourful Legends:
Colour Terms in Legendary Material in the Icelandic Sagas
and Old and Middle Irish Non-religious Texts”
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James P. Leary (University of Wisconsin): “Folk Legends
in Nordic America”
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Merja Leppälahti (Finland): “Louhi meets King
Arthur: The Use of Folk Legends Today”
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John Lindow (Berkeley USA): “***”(Plenary)
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Criostoir Mac Carthaigh (Dublin): “The Occupational
Context of Irish Supernatural Maritime Legends”
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Séamas O' Catháin (Dublin): “Svale Solheim
and Norwegian Legends”* (Plenary)
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Padraig Ó Healai (Gallway, Ireland): “St John's
Prologue in Irish Folk Tradition”
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Daíthí O' hOgáin (Dublin): “Irish
Hurling Legends: Individuals and Tradition”
- Ane Ohrvik (Oslo):
“The Intertextual Nisse”
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Piret Paal (Tartu): “Lapps Torturing Estonians”
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Guntis Pakalns (Riga, Latvia): “***”
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Ulf Palmenfelt (Visby, Gotland): “The Legendary Forms
and Contents of Metamorphoses” (Plenary)
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Catherine Raudvere (Lund/ Copenhagen): “***”
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Jonathan Roper (Sheffield) “Legends in Charms”
Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir (Reykjavík):
“A Female Storyteller from Breiðafjörður
in Iceland, and Her Narratives”
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Mikael Sarelin (Åbo): “Legends about the Knife
Fighters”
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John Shaw (Edinburgh): “***”(Plenary)
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Anna Leena Siikaala (Helsinki): “***”(Plenary)
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Jacqueline Simpson (London): “A Ghostly View of England's
Past” (Plenary)
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Fredrik Skott (Göteborg): “***”
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Krister Stoor (Umeå): “The Two Brothers in Sami
Stories and Myths: Evil Men or Deliverers (Rescuers) of
the People”
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Timothy Tangherlini (Los Angeles USA): “Leaning Left:
Folklore Collection and the Rise of Progressive Rural Politics
in Late 19th Century Denmark”
(Plenary)
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Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (Reykjavík): “***”
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Ülo Valk (Tartu, Estonia): “Folk and Foes: Construction
of Social Reality in 19th Century Estonian legends”
(Plenary)
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Ieva Vitola (Latvia): “Hidden Treasure (Fortune) Places
in Latvia: Folk Legend and Archaeological Discourse”
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Ulrika Wolf-Knuts (Turku/ Åbo): “The Collection
of Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning as a Representation of
the Swedish Folklore in Finland” (Plenary)
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Ögmundur Helgason (Reykjavík): “***”
