Daniel Sävborg

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Daniel Sävborg is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Tartu since 2010. He has a background in Comparative Literature and Classical Philology from the Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala. He has been teaching comparative literature, Old Norse philology, and Scandinavian folklore regularly since 1993.  He is at the moment the leader of the project “Riddarasögur and Saga Style: Native Influence on Norse Translations of Courtly Literature in the 13th Century” (PHVLC22916) and he has previously led e.g. the projects “Encountering the Otherworld in Medieval Nordic Literature – New Perspectives” (PUT479), “Formulae in Icelandic Saga Literature” (PHVLC19921), ”Tradition and Originality in the Post-Classical Saga Literature” (funded by Stofnun Árna Magnússonar), and ”Känsloskildringen i den norröna litteraturen ca 1150-1350” (funded by the Swedish Research Council). His main fields of research include the Swedish drama in the 17th and 18th centuries, emotions in Old Norse literature, the supernatural in medieval Scandinavian literature, the courtly translations in 13th century Norway, medieval and early modern Swedish historiography, Scandinavian folklore, the conversion of Sweden, interdisciplinary approaches in medieval and Viking Age studies, oral tradition and oral-derived literature and the use of verbal formulae in narrative prose, Icelandic manuscripts and manuscripts relations.


 

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Contact: daniel.savborg@ut.ee


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VII Jornadas de ELE en Estonia

La Universidad de Tartu celebrará la sexta edición de las Jornadas de ELE en Estonia los días 4 y 5 de mayo de 2024 y acogerá presencialmente a investigadores y docentes del ámbito de la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (ELE).

Doctoral defence: Marit Karelson „Le Temps d’engagement dans les œuvres d’André Gide et de Johannes Semper: les univers fictionnels entre l’élan vital et la littérature engagée“

On 17 November at 12:00, Marit Karelson will defend her doctoral thesis „Le Temps d’engagement dans les œuvres d’André Gide et de Johannes Semper: les univers fictionnels entre l’élan vital et la littérature engagée“

Doctoral defence: Aleksejs Samarins „Литературная позиция и творчество С. А. Ауслендера в 1906–1908 гг.“

On 20 November at 14:00, Aleksejs Samarins will defend his doctoral thesis „Литературная позиция и творчество С. А. Ауслендера в 1906–1908 гг.“