Meetings

Upcoming meetings:

  • 14 February 2024, 9–11, Room 2.24 Blandijn – Middle Low German laws/Flos under Blankeflos, plus a research presentation by Nelson Goering (UGent) on h-loss and vowel (non-)lengthening in Old English
  • 28 February 2024, 9–11, Room 2.22 Blandijn Middle Norwegian diplomas
  • 13 March 2024, 9–11, Room 2.24 Blandijn Middle English Ormulum, plus a research presentation by Hannah Booth (UGent) on time-clefts in the Old Icelandic saga narratives
  • 27 March 2024, 9–11, Room 2.21 Blandijn Middle High German and Middle Dutch Nibelungenlied/Nevelingenlied

 

Links to the various texts are provided under “Resources” ahead of each meeting

 

Previous meetings:

  • 7 Dec 2023, 9-11  Old High German/Old French Strasbourg Oaths  (joint session together with colleagues from the Romance department), plus a festive drink
  • 23 Nov 2023, 9-11 – Old English Will of Æthelgifu 
  • 9 Nov 2023, 9-11 – Old High German Ludwigslied, plus a research presentation by Christian Hoekema (UGent): ‘Elnonensia: the (re)discovery of the Ludwigslied and the St Eulalia hymn’, followed by an autumn drink
  • 26 Oct 2023, 9-11 – Old Norse Kirkjudagsmál (Icelandic Homily Book)
  • 17 July 2023, 15-17 – Old Norse Atlakviða (Poetic Edda), followed by a summer drink
  • 21 June 2023, 10-12 – Old Saxon Heliand
  • 31 May 2023, 10-12 – Old High German Wessobrunn Prayer, Merseburg charms
  • 10 May 2023, 10-12 – Old High German Hildebrandslied
  • 26 April 2023, 10-12 – Old Norse Fagrskinna
  • 29 March 2023, 10-12 – Old Norse Korkmaks saga 
  • 22 February 2023, 10-12 – Research presentation by Giacomo Bucci: ‘Is the partitive case an NPI? A hypothesis with evidence from the early Germanic languages’
  • 2 February 2023, 10-12 – Gothic Bologna Fragment
  • 18 January 2023, 10-12 – Gothic Bologna Fragment
  • 14 December 2022, 10-12 – Research presentation by Hannah Booth: ‘Beyond given versus new: the proprial article in Old Icelandic’
  • 30 November 2022, 10-12 – Old English Apollonius
  • 16 November 2022, 10-12 – Old English Apollonius