Emma Horne

Thesis title:

A Land of Ice and Fire: An Ecocritical Reading of the Landscapes of Islendingasogur

My research focuses on the landscapes of the Old-Norse Icelandic family sagas and the ecological relationship(s) between migration, settlement, exploration, and Viking Age Iceland.

Research Area

Languages and Literature

Conferences

'Perceptions of otherness in the non-Iclelandic landscapes of Orkneyinga saga, Færeyinga saga, and the Vinland sagas', Saga Conference, Universities of Krakow and Katowice, Forthcoming August 2025.
'Lingusitic minorities and environmental heirarchies', International Congress for Onomastic Sciences, University of Helsinki, August 2024.
'Ecocriticism and Old Norse: History and limitations', 15th Old Norse Postgraduate Symposium, University of Bergen, April 2024.
'Multilingual Environments in the North?: The impact of Old Norse and Old English intelligability on the onomastic oractices of early-medieval Lancashire', ISSEME, University of Manchester, June 2023.
'The value of place-names as historical, linguistic, and environmental evidnence: a Lancashire Case Study', Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, April 2023.
'The Function of Landscapes in the Íslendingasögur', The 11th Háskolí Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, University of Iceland, April 2023.
'The near-absence of positive emotionality in the Icelandic Family Sagas', Lincoln Leads Conference Panels, University of Oxford, February 2023.

Public Engagement & Impact

Vikings for Schools Co-ordinator at University of Nottingham

Other Research Interests

Ecology
Place-names
Linguistic Environments
Codicology

Memberships

ISSEME
Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Viking Society
English Place-Names Society

Emma Horne

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A Land of Ice and Fire: An Ecocritical Reading of the Landscapes of Islendingasogur

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Conferences

Public Engagement & Impact

Other Research Interests

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