CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate professor in Old Norse Philology
Faculty of Arts
Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies
University of Oslo
PB. 1016 Blindern
0315 Oslo Norway
| Office Telephone: | +47 22 85 29 09 |
| Office Fax: | +47 22 85 29 29 |
| Active email: | k.g.johansson@mellomalder.uio.no |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.hf.uio.no/middelaldersenteret/english/ |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.hf.uio.no/middelaldersenteret/om-mas/ansatte/karlgj/presentation.html |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Please see URL above
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Articles coming in 2004:
“On orality and the Verschriftlichung of Skírnis¬mál.” i Viking Collection.
“Computing Medieval Primary Sources from the Vadstena Monastery. Arguments for the Primary Source Text.” Literacy and Linguistic Computing
“Översättning och originalspråkstext i handskriftstraderingens våld Merlínusspá och Völuspá I Hauksbók.” Beiträge zur Germanistikk und Skandinavistik
“Old Norse-Icelandic Epics as Sources to Sacndinavian History”
“The Earliest Swedish Translations of Snorri Sturlason’s Heimskringla”
“Om folklig och lärt hos de tidigaste benediktinerna på Island. Nikulás Bergssons Leiðarvísir ok borgskipan och isländsk litteracitet”
“Kyrka, kloster och kristnande i det tidigmedeltida Island. Recension av Orri Vésteinsson. The Christianization of Iceland. Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300. Oxford 2000”
“Sagan endursögð. Recension av Ármann Jakobsson Morkinskinna” i Saga
“Från Gunnlaugr Leifsson till Arngrímr Brandsson. Översättning och tradering i benediktinsk miljö 1150-1400”
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Nils Dverstorp: working on a project concerning manuscripts from the monastery of Vadstena
Ingela Hedstrøm: Medieval prayer books from Sweden 1425-1560
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students, in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in development of online research resources.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Social Structures in Scandinavian Middle Ages
Old Norse Reading Seminar
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