Festlig Faglig Fredag with Corinna Scheungraber: Epithets, kennings, metonymies

Scene from the Torslunda Plates with two warriers carrying spears and wearing battle helmets with swine on top
A Germanic battle helmet decoration from the Torslunda Plates. Wikimedia Commons.

Time flies, and it is time for the next Festlig Faglig Fredag.

This talk will be given by Corinna Scheungraber who is a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Roots of Europe. She holds a PhD from the University of Cologne.

Corinna will introduce her project Epithets of Gods and Heroes in Old Germanic and beyond – A Comparative Study on their Conceptualization, Memorization and Tradition with the talk

Epithets, kennings, metonymies – A poetic means of conceptualising and memorising heroes, beasts and gods

We'll meet at 4 pm, and Corinna's talk will begin at a quarter past.

We're looking forward to seeing you again!