1. A
Concordance to the Proverbs and Proverbial Materials of the Old Icelandic Sagas:
an Introduction. Delivered at CSM Meeting, Winnipeg, 1 June 2004 .
2. Available in Proverbium [18, 2001. 149-166.] in an
expanded version, The
Literary Use of Proverbs in Njáls saga, is included here in its
earlier conference paper format.
3. The
Proverbs of Vatnsdœla saga, the Sword of Jokull and the Fate of
Grettir: Examining an Instance of Conscious Intertextuality in Grettis
saga Presented at the 37th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2002. Accepted in revised form for
publication in the George Clark Festschrift as "The Proverbs of Vatnsdœla
saga and the Sword of Jökull: the Backgrounds of Grettir Ásmundarson’s
Flawed Heroism".
4. Some
Uses of the Apophthegmatic Scene in the Old Icelandic Sagas
Presented for CMRS, St. Louis University, Session IV, at the 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2004.
5. “Mér
þykkir þar heimskum manni at duga, sem þú ert.” Paremiological
Sub-categories and the Íslendingasögur; Some Applications of the Concordance
to the Proverbs and Proverbial Materials in the Old Icelandic Sagas
Presented for the AASSC Meeting, Winnipeg, presented 30 May
2004.