Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, PhD

Virtual Exhibition: Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse in Time and Space

• The Writing Histories Exhibition 
  This exhibition explores the beginnings of the scholarly reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in Denmark in the seventeenth century, when the authority of Saxo Grammaticus and his Gesta Danorum became increasingly challenged by the rediscovery of Old Norse-Icelandic sources. With this scholarly rediscovery previously forgotten sagas gained new life as they were revitalised or reinvented by early modern antiquarians.​

• ​​​​The Paired Objects Exhibition (with Dale Kedwards)
  This exhibition presents a gallery of paired objects from the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, and the National Museum of Iceland. By pairing items between these two collections, we explore the relationships between medieval traditions and the later artworks they inspired.

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Blog posts, published conference abstracts, etc.

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• (with N.K. Yavuz) “Working with Manuscripts in the Digital Age.” In ICMA News (Summer 2021): 22-25.

• Revising Danish royal genealogies Anno 1664, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2020) here.

• “Writing histories: Legendary sagas and early modern Danish historiography.” In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 33.

• “What do we know about all the versions of the story of Hrómundur Greipsson?” In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 15.

• “Communication and Dissemination for Early Career Scholars NECRON 2019.” In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), pp. 27–29.

• (with Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B) “Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse (NECRON): An Introduction.” In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), pp. 7–8.

• (with Murphy LJ) “A Networking Reception NECRON 2018.” In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 26.

• Chronicle of the Slavs in the Arnamagnæan Collection, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2019) here.

• “Digital catalogs and analog data: Cataloging Nordic manuscripts.” Abstracts of the 12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age,  Philadelphia, PA (2019), available here.

• “When a king of Norway became a king of Russia: Transmission and reception of legendary sagas in early-modern Scandinavia.” Fyrirlestrar Miðaldastofu 2019–2020, Reykjavik (2019), available here.

• A hand-written copy of a printed book: AM Acc 61, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2018) here.

• “Between transmission and reception: Lost sagas and their post-medieval manifestations.” Preprints of the 17th International Saga Conference, Reykjavík (2018), Download.

• “Dating post-medieval Icelandic manuscript based on watermarks. A case study of selected nineteenth century Hrómundar saga Gripssonar manuscripts.” Abstracts of the 17th Care and Conservation of Manuscripts, Copenhagen (2018), Download.

• (with K. Driscoll) Advent Calendar: 1st of December, also available in Danish (2017) here.

• The 1903 edition of In the Seven Woods (2017)

• An Easter 'cheat sheet': AM 249 d fol., The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2017) here. 

• “Network analysis of the manuscript context of Old Icelandic literature.” Book of Abstracts DH2017, Montreal (2017), Download.

• (with Timothy Rowbotham and Tarrin Wills) “Visualising genre relationships in Icelandic manuscripts.” Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 2nd Conference, Götenburg (2017), Download.

• “Re-approaching new stemmatics: Choice of relationship revealing readings for cladistic analysis.” Book of Abstracts, International Symposium on Digital Humanities, Växjö (2016), pp. 44-–5, Download.