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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: News from The President

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Photo Series from Lund

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I am writing this on Easter Monday, and it appears that spring has finally arrived here in central Alberta. This transitioning of seasons is a reminder that Congress 2014 is quickly approaching, and AASSC Program Chair Gurli Woods has been working hard with local coordinators Harry Lane and R. Andrew McDonald to prepare for our meetings at Brock University (May 26-29). I would like to thank them for all of their efforts in thoughtfully putting together the paper sessions, special events and social gatherings, and you will find more detailed information about conference events later in this newsletter. I would like to note that May 17, 2014 marks the bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution, and we will be marking this event with a poster exhibition and special remarks by Cultural Affairs Officer Jan-Terje Storaas from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa. The Congress 2014 theme is Borders without Boundaries, and the notion of freely crossing national and disciplinary borders is a familiar one to those of us who work with and in the Nordic region. I look forward to seeing how this theme is woven into our conference in St. Catharines. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences held its 2014 Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting in Montreal on March 28. This event always precedes Congress, and thanks to Gurli Woods for representing AASSC once again this year. Though I wasn’t able to attend, I have been reflecting on the theme of this day-long conference, namely Transformations. Small organizations like ours, of course, are acutely aware of the necessity of transformation and change if we are to grow and thrive, and small programs—of which many of us are a part—must be flexible and innovative, particularly in the present fiscal climate facing post-secondary education. One of the topics of discussion on March 28 was how Congress can be more welcoming to younger scholars and place more emphasis on interdisciplinarity. These are actually two areas the current and recent AASSC Executives have identified as critical to our organization’s future, and though we have made some progress in these areas,

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we need to continue developing initiatives to recruit younger scholars and members from a greater variety of disciplines. I have fielded an unusual number of requests in recent months from Canadians who are interested in learning Scandinavian languages and/or pursuing graduate studies in Scandinavian Studies. I have invited these potential AASSC members to join our group, and I have encouraged them to attend future conferences. I welcome ideas and suggestions from all of you for continuing to attract young scholars and facilitate their participation in our organization. Congratulations to Chris Hale who is retiring from the University of Alberta this summer. Chris has taught Scandinavian Studies at the U of A for 44 years, and he is one of the founding members of AASSC, serving as our first president. He has continued to serve AASSC over the years in many capacities, most recently as treasurer and CINS liaison. (Chris will be featured in the next edition of theNewsletter.) I look forward to seeing many of you at Brock University at the end of May! Sincerely, Ingrid Urberg, AASSC President

AASSC / AAESC ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES IN CANADA L’ASSOCIATION POUR L’AVANCEMENT DES ÉTUDES SCANDINAVES AU CANADA CONFERENCE: MONDAY MAY 26 – THURSDAY MAY 29, 2014 BROCK UNIVERSITY Monday, May 26 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Executive Meeting. Plaza Room 600E 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: AASSC Opening Reception Cosponsored by the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Venue: Walker Complex Upstairs Welcoming Chair: Ingrid Urberg, President of AASSC Jan-Terje Storaas, Cultural Affairs Officer of the Royal Norwegian Embassy, will speak to the Bicentenary Celebration of the Norwegian Constitution. AASSC

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All AASSC presenters/conference participants welcome. Refreshments and cash bar. Note: During the duration of Congress, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa is sponsoring a poster exhibit celebrating the Bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution in the corridor that traverses the Matheson Learning Commons, on the Main Floor of the James A. Gibson Library in the Schmon Tower.

Tuesday, May 27 8.30 am – 9:00 am: Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Ingrid Urberg, President

AASSC Conference 2014 Brock University St Catharines Ontario May 26-29

Venue this morning only: Thistle Complex Room: 243 9:00 am – 10:30 am: AASSC KEYNOTE SPEAKER R. Andrew McDonald (Brock University): “’Then Sveinn went down to the Isle of Man’—Late Norse Maritime Empires, Borders and Boundaries: The View from Man and Orkney.” Chair: Ingrid Urberg (University of Alberta) 10:30 am – 11:00 am: Break Note: Move to Thistle Complex Room 269 C (all remaining sessions to be held here) 11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Session I – The Viking Universe through Archaeology and the Sagas Chair: R. Andrew McDonald (Brock University) Birgitta Wallace (Parks Canada): “Meeting the ‘Other’: the Encounters of the Norse and American Natives in North America.” Angus A. Somerville (Brock University): “Grettir Unbound: Does Grettisfærsla belong with Grettis Saga?” 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch Break 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Session II – Imaginative Reporting on the North Chair: Susan Gold/Smith (University of Windsor) Kendra Willson (University of Helsinki): “A 17th-Century Polish/Czech Travelogue on Hot Springs in Iceland.” Jessica Auer (Concordia University): “Viking Age Greenland: Between the Old World and the New World” followed by the artist’s short film Still Ruins, Moving Stones (15 minutes). Will van den Hoonaard (Saint Thomas University): “Kirstine Colban: Norway’s First Woman Cartographer.” 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Break 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Session III – From Coastal Communities and Their Material Culture to Waterfall Installations Abroad

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Chair: John Nilson (Saskatchewan Legislature) Silke Reeploeg (University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland): “Nordic Border Crossings: Coastal Communities and Connected Cultures in Norway and Scotland.” Susan Gold/Smith (University of Windsor): “The Principles of Slöjd as Practiced at Naas, Sweden (ca 1891): Used to Present the Work of A.G. Smith and Elaine Carr.” Jens Monrad (University of British Columbia): “Jamming the Cultural Canon. SUPERFLEX and the Danish State of Conceptual Art.” 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Dinner Break 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Note venue: Academic South Block, Room 215 Screening of Palme (Sweden, 2012), a documentary film written and directed by Kristina Lindström and Maud Nycander. Music by Benny Andersson. 103 minutes. Produced by B-Reel Feature Films, Danmarks Radio, Det Danske Filminstitut, Svenska Filminstitutet, Sveriges Television (SVT). Presented by the Embassy of Sweden. Introduction: Britt Bengtsson (Press and Cultural Officer, Embassy of Sweden)

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9:00 am – 10:30 am: Session IV – Shifting Borders of Identity in the Norse North Atlantic: Religion, Belief, and Architecture Chair: Birgitta Wallace (Parks Canada) Sara Stuart (Brock University): “No Grave Deep Enough: Shifting the Borders of Identity in the Norse Undead.” Nicholas Timmers (Brock University): “Orkney and the Medieval Church: The Cultural Influences of the Later Christianization in the 11th – 13th Centuries.” Candice Bogdanski (York University): “The Legacy of Norse Viking Age Travel: The Continued Use of North Atlantic Sea Routes and the Development of a Medieval Architectural Network.” 10:30 am – 11:00 am: Break 11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Session V – Crime Fiction and Other Investigations Chair: Angus Somerville (Brock University) Natalie van Deusen (University of Alberta): “National Treasures: Old Norse Manuscripts and the Medieval Past in Icelandic Crime Fiction.” John Lingard (Cape Breton University): “’Power Over the Story:’ Mystery, Metaliterariness, and Metafiction in Mikkel Birkegaard’s Libri di Luca and Karin Fossum’s Brudd.”

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Harry Lane (University of Guelph): “’Det känns bara som allting faller . . . :’ Crises of Control in Henning Mankell’s Darwins kapten.” 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Sandwich lunch (at small fee) and AGM 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm: AASSC Winery Tour and Banquet (ticketed event)

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9:00 am – 10:00 am: Session VI – Women Writers of the 1960s in Denmark and HIV/AIDS Theatre in Sweden in the 1980s and 90s. Chair: Gurli Woods (Carleton University) Marina Allemano (University of Alberta): “Bodies and Boundaries: What Further Happened to the 1968 Generation of Women Writers in Denmark?” Dirk Gindt (Concordia University): “Discourses on Stage: Early HIV/AIDS Theatre in the Swedish Welfare State.” 10:00 am – 10:30 am: Break 10:30 am – 11:30 am: Session VII – From Swedish-Speaking Finns in Sweden to “Good Language Learners” of English in Denmark Chair: Marina Allemano (University of Alberta) Shelley Taylor (University of Western Ontario): “Beyond the ‘Good Language Learner’: An Investigation into Conditions for Teaching English in Denmark and French in Canada.”

NEW BOOK REVIEW Evaluating the Achievement of One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema (2012), edited by our own Dr John Tucker, was reviewed by Ib Bondebjerg (University of Copenhagen). Make sure to look up last April’s volume of the European Journal of Communication, to read through this thorough review!

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CINS – Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies Funds for Graduate Students

Each year the Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies provides funds to help offset the cost of graduate students who are participating in the AASSC meetings. The amount available varies yearly. Application forms will be available on the website and should be submitted to Birgitta Wallace, Treasurer, via mail or email ([email protected]) no later than March 15th, 2013. Please attach receipts or provide them at the Congress. A committee of three board members (Treasurer, VP/Program Chair, and a Member-at-Large) will determine the distribution of awards shortly thereafter.

The Incentive Unfunded Presenter’s Fund

The purpose of this fund is to provide support to AASSC Presenters, such as sessional instructors and retirees, who do not receive conference funding from their home institution or other granting agencies. This year a $400 stipend will be awarded to a conference presenter with no other source of funding. Contributions to AASSC, such as serving on the Executive, and frequency of conference attendance since joining AASSC may also be considered in awarding this stipend. (NOTE: This is an active fund and contributions are encouraged).

Travel Funds Two funds are available to offset the costs for Travel to the AASSC Annual Conference at the 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, May 2629, 2014.

Deadline for applications is March 1, 2014. The VP/Program Chair and a Member-at-Large in consultation with the AASSC Treasurer will determine the successful candidate. Application is available on the website: aassc.com

Should you find yourself in the area of Victoria, BC between now and midOctober, drop me a note. We’ll go see the Vikings at the Royal BC Museum and excavate a boat burial together with this cool interactive! -Erin McGuire (Newsletter Editor)

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Views from a Canadian Grad Student in Lund: A photo series by Justin Kimball 1.

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A view of the bar in the Viking themed restaurant 'Aifur', Stockholm

Norwegian Travel Grants The Royal Norwegian Embassy offers travel grants to AASSC members (Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada) who wish to travel to Norway to attend seminars, conferences, or university courses, to establish or renew academic contacts, or to do research, gather scientific information, books, teaching material and so on. The grants are awarded to applicants who actively work for the promotion of Norwegian studies in Canada or at individual academic institutions. Applications, including a CV and a proposal for the use of the grant, must reach the Embassy by May 1st of each year: Royal Norwegian Embassy Attn: Jan-Terje Storaas 150 Metcalfe Street, suite 1300 Ottawa, ON K1P 1P1 E-mail: [email protected] Subject to final approval by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU)

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Being Vikings: Experiential Learning at Memorial University Experiential learning is a key element of teaching which I have only recently began to embrace as an essential element to learning. During last autumn’s survey course of Viking-Age archaeology, I arranged three workshops for my students to illustrate various craft and fighting techniques in the Viking Age, to understand the craft makers and the warriors as well as the tangible evidence of Viking-Age activities. I felt I needed to mix things up, to get people out of the classroom, and excite them about their subject. As we could not visit Trelleborg, or Birka, or York, imagination and enthusiasm were necessary for success. A local spinner, weaver and felter demonstrated spinning techniques to the class. We all gave our best effort to spin some single-ply yarn, some with good results. While we span, two students presented their critiques of various articles about dress, adornment and textile production, providing discussion points for the others. We discussed the virtues of felted cloth over woven cloth. The class estimated that felted cloth was more robust, more waterproof and durable, yet taking far less time to produce, and therefore cheaper, than woven cloth. One would assume that felted cloth would been more desirable for those living and especially working in the Viking Age, where time is of a premium. Yet woven cloth is more likely to be found from the grave. The discussion took shape around status, type of grave goods, actual and extant. By handling the finished yarns and textiles, and examining various types of reproduced clothing, the students better understood how status was made manifest through textile production, as well as through study of dress accessories and jewellery which are more easily accessible in the cultural record. Underscored through the discussion was the importance of textile production for the whole of society, and not solely “women’s work”. A visit to the working Newfoundland Bronze Foundry led my students to understand various processes of jewellery production, including sand casting and the lost wax technique. Sculptor Morgan MacDonald was generous of his time and scheduled a bronze pour of the famous Bowring Park caribou antlers to coincide with our visit. His views on the problems of production, including time involved, gave the students a deeper understanding of the importance of “things” and the creation of such things in the pre-industrial world. Students also enjoyed a demonstration of Viking-Age battle techniques by an active re-creator from the Sea Wolves group in St. John’s. What was meant to be a fun and light-hearted demonstration was also very informative, as students learned about methods of waging war, the logistics of littoral and riverine warfare, the psychology of the warrior, and what would drive someone to become a berserkr. We also concluded with a serious discussion about the spirituality of warfare, and attachment to equipment, such as the sword and axe. AASSC

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It is difficult to bring the ‘real world’ to the classroom when studying the past to practically apply knowledge and test assumptions. I was delighted by the local response to assist in learning about the Viking Age, and my students benefitted from the experiences. My recommendation is to seek out local enthusiasts. Not only will students benefit, but it is also a great way to engage the community. Written by: Dr Shannon Lewis-Simpson, Memorial University

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Greenland’s Norse Churches: Garðar and Hvalsey Jessica Auer In July 2013, Canadian photographer and AASSC member Jessica Auer travelled to South Greenland to join a team of Danish archeologists who have been tasked with restoring what remains of the Norse settlements. After photographing and filming in Qassiarsuk (Brattahlid) and Igaliku (Norse Gardar—top) they camped at the remote Hvalsey church, the best-preserved Norse ruin in the Greenland (bottom). During this year’s AASSC conference at Brock University, Jessica will be sharing some of her photographs while discussing how Greenland’s isolation from Europe and the rest of the Norse world contributed to the disappearance of Norse settlers in Greenland during the 15th Century. A screening of her short film titled, “Still Ruins, Moving Stones”, will follow her presentation.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Laurie K. Bertram has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of History at the University of Toronto effective July 1, 2014. Laurie’s forthcoming manuscript with University of Toronto Press explores the creation and perpetuation of Icelandic identity in everyday life and media in North America. Her new postdoctoral project uses material culture to map Icelandic-Indigenous exchange and conflict in the Atlantic world.

Laurie Bertram Photo credit: James Lourenco

Laurie would like to extend sincere thanks for all of the kind support provided by members of the AASSC over the years. She presented a conference paper for the first time as a Masters student at the AASSC annual meeting at York University in 2006 on the IcelandicCanadian activist and MLA, Salome Halldorson. The AASSC fosters critical opportunities for young, emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines to meet with established, senior scholars, develop research, publish and gain exposure to a range of important Scandinavian studies contacts and resources in Canada. Takk fyrir!

“High-seated among heroes” The Archaeology of Death in the Viking Age ‘We hewed with the brand! Full gladly do I go! See the Valkyrjar fresh from Odin’s halls! High-seated among heroes shall I quaff the yellow-mead. The Aesir welcome me. Laughing gladly do I die!‘ Excerpt from the Death Song of Ragnarr Loðbrók, contained in Krákumál trans. Rev. J. Johnstone (1782) The Viking Age king Ragnarr Loðbrók knew he was fated to die, as are all mortal men. When faced with his own death, in true saga-style, he went with laughter and song. Sagas and poetry tell us about how the Vikings and their descendants viewed death, but through the archaeological record, we can get a sense of how they responded to it ritually. In this talk by Dr Erin McGuire of the University of Victoria we will explore the archaeological evidence for Viking Age funerary practices, looking at the material culture of this ritual practice. Many of the examples we will draw on can be found in the feature exhibition Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends. May 29, 7-8:30, Royal BC Museum Look! I’m famous! AASSC

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Scandinavian Studies at the University of British Columbia The Scandinavian Studies program in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver remains vibrant. In the past year, our Scandinavian language, literature, and culture courses enrolled 431 students from diverse fields across the university. The number does not include our large so-called CENS courses, most of which also feature northern European content. In addition to the popular courses “Vikings and Norse Mythology” and “Scandinavian Crime Fiction,” a new course on “The Heroic in Nordic Literature and Film” was offered for the first time. A new course on saga literature is in the works. Three years since it was introduced, the minor in Scandinavian Studies has graduated its first cohort of five students. The number of minor students has risen each year, with a current total of 15 declared. We are happy to announce that one of these students, Scandinavian minor and Political Science major Christopher Shea, received the SWEA-Vancouver scholarship for study in Uppsala in 2015. Thanks in part to the generous support of the Danish government, UBC remains the only institution in Canada offering Danish language instruction, currently from Jens Monrad. Students completing the Swedish language sequence, taught by Lena Karlström, received book awards from the Swedish Embassy in Ottawa to congratulate them for finishing two years of Swedish. Kyle Frackman

NEW RULES FOR MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS Our membership year runs from May 1 to April 30. In the past members have paid their dues throughout this period, some in May, others in the fall or even as late as March. It has led to confusion as to what year they have been paying for. As announced last spring, beginning now, payments will be aligned with the calendar year. You will be required to pay by December 31, 2014 to be a member for the 2014-2015 fiscal year. We urge you to pay as soon as possible! There’s no need to wait until the end of December. Why not submit your payment now? Cheques are welcome but you can also submit payment using PayPal. The fees, which apply to both Canadian and US dollars, are: Regular member Retired member Student member Other (e.g. unwaged)

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Northern Studies Virtual Conference 2014 invites students involved in undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate studies to submit abstracts for the virtual conference to be held on 21st August 2014. A virtual conference utilises the video conferencing capabilities of ‘smart classrooms’ to established real-time video connections with campuses around the world. The theme for NSVC 2014 is “-scapes” of the North How human beings experience ‘belonging in the world’ is tied to their perceived surroundings—1 the ‘scape’ to which they belong. This suffix (‘scape’) was first recorded in 16th century Dutch as ‘landschap’: a means of describing paintings of natural scenery. Since then, it has been expanded to denote parcels of land with distinguishing characteristics2. Today, however, ‘scape’ is more precisely used to define unique parcels of space (eg. in addition to landscape, we have mountainscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, mindscapes, and even E-scapes). Our theme for this year is to challenge students to interpret the “North --scapes” theme in a manner they see fit. Through such submissions, we hope to develop a conference that explores how the North is experienced. We encourage students from any and all fields of study with connections to the multidisciplinary field of northern studies to submit abstracts (eg. history, archaeology, literature, music, drama, folklore). Abstracts must be submitted no later than 15 June 2014. Presentations must be in English and of a maximum duration of 15 minutes in length. Each presentation will be followed by a short Q&A session. Submission Guidelines: Please submit the following to: [email protected] including “Conference Abstract” as the subject. 

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1 Chapman, H. (2009). Landscape Archaeology and GIS. The History Press: United Kingdom. 2 Online Etymology Dictionary. (2014). Landscape. [Online] Available at http:// www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=landscape [Accessed 12 April 2014].

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SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES VOLUME 21

Editor's Note Volume 21 of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada marks the beginning of a new phase in the evolution of the journal. For the first time we are introducing into our "Table of Contents" the category Editions and Translations. The proximate occasion of this development was the submission by Alaric Hall, Steven D. P. Richardson, and Haukur Þorgeirsson of "Sigrgarðs saga frækna: A normalised text, translation, and introduction." But the change depends more importantly on the journal's move into electronic publication. For although the journal will continue to be available in hard copy though print-ondemand, its primary realization has become as a virtual text that is published online. This means that we are able to include submissions longer than those typically accepted by journals and we are also able to produce editions and translations in parallel formats, whether in paired columns or facing-page format. The present translation employs both strategies, columns in its PDF form, facing-page as an HTML file. It is our hope that the inclusion of Editions and Translations will provide scholars with a refereed venue for both translations and editions, a venue that will make widely available texts that might otherwise languish unedited or untranslated—or simply unpublished. Sigrgarðs saga frækna, a short fornaldarsaga, is just the kind text that might once have looked in vain for scholarly publication, but there are many other potentially valuable texts that we would like to present to readers. Although we have published Review Articles before, it is perhaps worth underlining our willingness—exemplified by the present volume—to include pieces published under this heading. Sometimes these will involve discussions of multiple related works, but it can also be the case that a review addresses a longer and deeper study to the issues raised by a particular book.

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With this volume we have moved to a system of "rolling publication." That is submissions will be published on the website as soon as they reach final form. They will be issued within a volume when a volume is complete. At this point they will gain their final pagination and they will be available on paper through print-on-demand. It is our hope that volumes will come out yearly. Volume 21 is my last as editor of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. This note gives me the opportunity to thank those who have made my tenure such a worthwhile experience. In particular I would like to single out for praise Martin Holmes of Humanities Computing at the University of Victoria. He established the electronic protocols to which we adhere and did almost all of the coding that has generated the volumes produced during my tenure. TEI compliance is the gold standard of journal publication. Martin both insisted we conform to this standard and made it possible. We are grateful to Humanities Computing for allowing Martin to take us under his wing. I would also like to thank my colleague Helga Thorson who joined me as Book Review Editor in volume 18. She has been the best of collaborators on this project. I am delighted that she has agreed to become the next Editor of the journal. Joining her as the new Book Review Editor will be Natalie van Deusen of the University of Alberta, who will bring to the journal her own expertise in the preparation of TEI compliant electronic editions, a further reason for our move into the publication of such texts. Finally I must express my gratitude to the many contributors and referees without whom there would be no Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. Their generosity and patience should not go unacknowledged; nor should I forget the support of the Editorial Board—we have appreciated their guidance. We rely of course on the support of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, to which the journal belongs, and ACCESS Copyright which has provided financial support over the years. John Tucker, Department of English, University of Victoria

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Articles Returning Fathers: Sagas, Novels, and the Uncanny De l’actrice fictionnelle à l’acteur réel : La femme de théâtre dans la Suède du XIXème siècle L’expérience de Persona et la création du concept d’imageaffection par Gilles Deleuze Editions and Translations Sigrgarðs saga frækna: A normalised text, translation, and introduction

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Review Articles Peter Sjølyst-Jackson. Troubling Legacies: Migration, Modernism and Fascism in the Case of Knut Hamsun. Scandinavian Crime Fiction: a review of recent scholarship

Reviews Richard M. Armfelt, Compiler. All I Need Now Are Some Chickens, a Cow, and a Wife. Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock, eds. Nordic Paths to Modernity Birna Bjarnadóttir Recesses of the Mind: Aesthetics in the Work of Guðbergur Bergsson. George M. Brunsden. Thorfinn the Mighty: The Ultimate Viking. Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius, eds. Regi Ingmar Bergman. Ellen Rees Figurative Space in the Novels of Cora Sandel. Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp, eds. Arctic Discourses. Index of Keywords

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Facebook Group for Scandinavian Scholars The Facebook group is called "Scandinavian Scholars" and is: "For scholars interested in Scandinavian Studies. The group is for knowledge sharing, job postings, call for papers, search for collaborators, announcement of conferences and seminars, translation questions etc." The group has nearly doubled in size since last year and it up to 972 members and is very good if you want updates with regard to conferences, call for papers, Scandinavian literary events, knowledge sharing, etc. Administrators are Mads Bunch (University of Copenhagen) & Anna Stenport (University of Illinois, Urbana) Just search for "Scandinavian Scholars" on Facebook and ask to join the group.

AASSC Info & Addresses AASSC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT: Ingrid Urberg, Scandinavian Studies, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta, 4901 46 Avenue, Camrose, AB T4V 2R3, Tel. (780) 679 1573, [email protected] Co-VICE PRESIDENT: Mads Bunch, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, 22.4.53, 2300 København S, Denmark, [email protected] Co-VICE PRESIDENT and CHAIR of the PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gurli Woods, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Tel. (613) 5202600, ext. 2195, [email protected] PAST PRESIDENT: Susan Gold Smith, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, LeBel 106, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, [email protected] TREASURER: Birgitta Wallace, Parks Canada Agency, 7 Lady Slipper Drive, Halifax, NS B3J 1S9, Tel. (902) 4435281, Fax (902) 443-9322, [email protected] SECRETARY: John Nilson, Saskatchewan, [email protected] EDITOR, SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES: Helga Thorson, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Clearihue Building, Room D254, P.O. Box 3045, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3P4, [email protected] BOOK REVIEW EDITOR, SCANDINAVIAN-CANADIAN STUDIES: Natalie Van Deusen, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, 309-D Arts & Convocation Hall, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E6, [email protected] MEMBERS AT LARGE: Marina Allemano, 155 Ridgewood Terrace, St. Albert, AB, T8N 0E9, Canada, [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR & WEBMASTER: Erin Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, PO BOX 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2, Tel. (250) 853-3894, [email protected]

AASSC WEBSITE: aassc.com/ NORDIC EMBASSIES IN CANADA Royal Danish Embassy, 47 Clarence Street, Suite 450, Ottawa, ON, K1N 9K1; Tel. (613) 562 -1811; Fax: (613) 562-1812; [email protected]; http://www.ambottawa.um.dk/en Embassy of Finland, 55 Metcalfe St., Suite 850, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6L5; Tel. (613) 288-2233; Fax: (613) 2882244; www.finland.ca/en/; [email protected] Embassy of Iceland, Suite 710, 360 Albert St. Ottawa, ON, K1R 7X7; Tel. (613) 482-1944; Fax: (613) 4821945; www.iceland.org/ca Royal Norwegian Embassy, 150 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1300, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P1, Tel: (613) 238-6571; Fax: (613) 238-2765; [email protected]; www.emb-norway.ca Embassy of Sweden, 377 Dalhousie St., Ottawa, ON, K1N 9N8; Tel. (613) 241-8553; Fax: (613) 241-2277; www.swedishembassy.ca