Austmarr VI

Religion – Language – Practice

with a Workshop on Late Iron Age Mortuary Behaviours

5^th–6^th December 2016

Helsinki, Finland

Monday, December 5

University of Helsinki main building (Fabianinkatu 33), Sali / Room 8

10:00-10:05 Welcome

Session 1: chair: Eila Stepanova

10:05-10:45 Janne Saarikivi (University of Helsinki)

Pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and the world view behind them

10:45-11:25 Frog (University of Helsinki)

Semantic disambiguation of theonyms.

11:25-11:55 coffee

Session 2: chair: Frog

11:55-12:25 Mikko Bentlin (University of Greifswald)

Religious practices and folk beliefs reflected in the Germanic loanwords of Finnish

12:35-13:15 Kendra Willson (University of Turku)

Runo revisited. Borrowing and semantic development

13:15-14:15 lunch at university cafeteria (own expense)

Session 3: chair: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson

14:20-15:00 Jhonny Thérus (Uppsala University)

The complex East Swedish burial practises during the period of conversion, c. 900-1150. Some examples, problems, and solutions

15:00-15:40 Anna Wessman (University of Helsinki)

Karelian women in Espoo?

15:40-16:10 coffee

Session 4: chair: Kendra Willson

16:10-16:50 Vykintas Vaitkevičius (University of Klaipeda)

Apidėmė: Deity – Place-name – Memorial site

16:50-17:30 Leszek Slupecki (University of Rzeszowski)

The Scyld Scaefing, or There and Back Again? Boat Burials and the Idea of Reincarnation.

17:30 closing discussion

18:00 Reception at folklore department, Topelia (Unioninkatu 38 C)

Tuesday, December 6

Hotel Arthur, Virtanen hall (Vuorikatu 19)

9:00-17:00 Workshop on late Viking Age mortuary behaviours, led by Frog, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Eila Stepanova and Daniel Sävborg

09:00–09:15 Opening

09:15–10:45 Session I: Two women, two places, two graves

Led by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonason (National Historical Museum, Stockholm)

10:45–11:00 Coffee

11:00–12:30 Session II: Lamenters: performance and roles invisible to archaeology

Led by Eila Stepanova (University of Helsinki)

12:30–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00 Session III: Burials and graves in written sources

Led by Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu)

15:00–15:15 Coffee

15:15–16:45 Session IV: Authority in Practice and Performance

Led by Frog (University of Helsinki)

16:45–17:00 Closing discussion

18:00 Dinner at Kolme kruunua, Liisankatu 5 (own expense)