Approaching the Viking Age

In autumn 2007, the Centre of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University hosted an international conference on Old Norse literature, mythology, culture, social life and language, held on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication in Vilnius of Edda Skandinawska by Joacim Lelewel. The title of the conference – Dialogues with the Viking Age – was borrowed from the book by Véstein Ólason, with the author‘s kind consent. The conference became a momentous event in the history of the Centre, as it gathered together many of our good friends from throughout the years: Professors Thomas Bredsdorff (Denmark), Jan Ragnar Hagland and Jon Gunnar Jørgensen (Norway), Jurij K. Kusmenko (Russia and Germany), Véstein Ólason (Iceland), Dr. Kristel Zilmer (Estonia) and Dr. Aurelijus Vijūnas (Taiwan). Although, for obvious reasons titled differently, the present book consists of the proceedings of that conference almost in their entirety, as well as couple of extra articles by those authors who were not able to come to Lithuania at that time.

Knygoje „Approaching the Viking Age" („Vikingų epochos tyrinėjimai") atsispindi 2007 m. Vilniaus universitete vykusios tarptautinės konferencijos „Dialogai su vikingų epocha" medžiaga.

Šioje konferencijoje buvo gvildenamos senosios skandinavų literatūros, mitologijos, kultūros, socialinio gyvenimo ir kalbotyros temos. Knygoje pateikiami žymių mokslininkų Jano Ragnaro Haglando ir Jono Gunnaro Jørgenseno (Norvegija), Jurijaus K. Kusmenko (Rusija/Vokietija), Vésteinno Ólasono (Islandija), Anatoly Libermano (JAV), taip pat VU Skandinavistikos centro dėstytojų Rasos Baranauskienės, Ugniaus Mikučionio, Ievos Steponavičiūtės-Aleksiejūnienės tyrinėjimai.