Miriam Conti
Position
Phd candidate
Affiliation
Short info
I work on the prehistory and transmission of Eddic poetry through traditional philology and paleography.
I am also interested in historical linguistics, language acquisition, and Old Norse translations from Latin.
I am also interested in historical linguistics, language acquisition, and Old Norse translations from Latin.
Teaching
Autumn 2024: NOFI113- Old Norse Poetry
Autumn 2025: NOFI110- Runology and Paleography
NOFI113- Old Norse Poetry
Publications
Publications
- The Codex Optimus Attitude: Methodological Bias in Editions of the Poetic Edda. (2026) "Annali Online Ferrara". Forthcoming.
- . (2025) "Il fantastico e il soprannaturale nelle tradizioni germaniche medievali" eds. Davide Salmoiraghi, Giulia Fabbris, Giovanni Nichetti. 47-62.
Conferences
- Inn r铆ki as the "other": semantic and stylistic harmonization in V谦lusp谩 H58. The 19th International Saga Conference (Katowice and Krak贸w, August 2025)
- Il Codex (optimus?) Regius dell'Edda Poetica. LI conference by Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (Ferrara, May 2025).
- "I know the pieces fit, but I watch them fall away": Edda R vs Edda A. Bergen Postgraduate Symposium (April 2025).
- Connecting the Dots in the Poetic Edda(s). M谩lstofa (Reykjav铆k, April 2025).
- No Beer, No Party: Alcohol in Old Norse Poetry. Fagkritisk dag, Food, Feasts and Fun in Medieval Scandinavia (Bergen, March 2025)
- Nord e magia: il metro degli incantesimi nella poesia norrena. PhD Conference by Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (Padova, December 2024).
- The Jigsaw of Alv铆ssm谩l: false fits of textual transmission. Mi冒aldastofa (Reykjav铆k, October 2024).
- Tell me that, nerd! Scribal practices in the abbreviation of "seg冒u m茅r 镁a冒" in Alv铆ssm谩l and elsewhere in Codex Regius GKS 2365 4to. NECRON symposium (Oslo, October 2024), poster.
- The Legacy of Lindblad: a Paleographic Approach to Recurring Formulas in Codex Regius. Old English and Old Norse Symposium (Oslo, May 2024).
- Eddic Prehistory and the Compilation of Codex Regius. Bergen Postgraduate Symposium (April 2024).
- 脼谩 k酶mr inn r铆ki at regind贸mi: A semantic and stylistic analysis of V谦lusp谩 H58. 12th H谩sk贸li 脥slands Student Conference on the Medieval North (Reykjav铆k, April 2023).
- Musicality in Italian and Scandinavian Languages. Online seminar for Spr氓kstudion at the University of Stockholm, with dr. Luca Riccardelli (Sapienza University of Rome) (February 2022).