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1. A Concordance to the Proverbs
and Proverbial Materials of the Old Icelandic Sagas: an Introduction.
Presented at a Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, Winnipeg,
1 June 2004 .
2. Available in Proverbium 18 2001, 149-166, in a revised and expanded version, The Literary Use of Proverbs in Njáls saga, is included here in its earlier conference paper format, as presented for CMRS, St. Louis University, at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 6 May 2001.
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. Published in The Hero Recovered: Essays in Honor of
George Clark, ed. James Weldon and Robin Waugh, MIP, 2011, pp. 150-170, as "The
Proverbs of Vatnsdœla saga and the Sword of Jökull: the Oral
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, 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 at a Meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, Winnipeg, presented 30 May 2004. Published
in significantly revised form in Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 16 2005-6,
28-54. Can be accessed at
http://lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca/cocoon/journals/scancan/article.htm?id=harris_1_16
6. The Proverbs of Morkinskinna.
A Preliminary Survey.
Presented for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies,
at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, 10 May 2007.
7. “(opt) eru köld kvenna
ráð”–a Critically Popular Old Icelandic Proverb and Its
Uses in the Íslendingasögur and Elsewhere.
Presented at a Meeting of the Association for the Advancement
of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, Saskatoon, 27 May 2007.
8. “To his friend a man should
be a friend.” Some Literary Uses of Proverbs of Friendship and Enmity
in the Old Icelandic Sagas.
Presented at a Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, Sasktoon,
29 May 2007.
9. Proverbs in Saxo and in the Sagas.
Presented at a Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America,
Vancouver, 4 April 2008.
10. Phraseological Approaches
to the Composition of Sverris saga.
Presented for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, at the 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 10 May 2008
11. Proverbs, Proverbial Allusion,
and the Point of the Sagas.
Presented at The Third North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval
Icelandic Studies, [Norsestock 3] Cornell University, 17 May 2008
12. Proverbs and the Rhetoric
of Feud in the Old Icelandic Sagas.
Presented at a Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, Vancouver,
2 June 2008.
13. Proverbial
Allusions in Sverris saga and in Fóstbrœðra saga:
Some Considerations.
Presented at a Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Studies in Canada, Vancouver, 3 June 2008.
14. On the paroemiological conundrums of Sturlubók chapter 142: earth-lice and hair on the tongue!
Presented at The 4th Annual Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies [Norsestock 4] Cornell University, 30 May 2009.
15. Some Paroemial Usages of Ignoble Heathens in Grettla and in Fóstbrœðra saga.
Presented at the International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, Leeds, 13 July 2009.
16. The Phraseological Matrix of the Völsung-Niflung Cycle.
Presented at The 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 2009.
17. Friendship in the Literature of Medieval Iceland: the Evidence of the Proverbs.
Presented as a keynote address at The Fictional North, a conference at The University College of the North, The Pas, Manitoba, 30 March - 1 April, 2010.
18. “Jafnan segir in ríkri ráð.” and the Point of Fóstbrœðra saga. Presented at The 5th Annual Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies [Norsestock 5] Cornell University, June 2010.
19. On the Paroemial Delineation of Character in Grettis saga.
Presented at The 6th Annual Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies [Norsestock 6], June 2011.