Åslaug Ommundsen
Position
Professor, Medieval Latin philology
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Åslaug Ommundsen has since 2003 studied fragments from medieval manuscripts in Latin, focusing on the development of book production in Norway in light of impulses from European centres and international collaboration in the Middle Ages. In addition to medieval book and scribal culture her academic interests include liturgy and liturgical practice, saints’ cults and hagiography, and monastic and ecclesiastical history. For more about Ommundsen's research, see Manuscripts that link Europe together.
Ommundsen is currently part of the management group of the Medieval Research Cluster at the University of Bergen and served as the cluster's Academic director from its foundation in 2018 to January 2023. She is the leader of the Research Group for Medieval Philology which is a broadly organized research group, open to academics with an interest in medieval texts and manuscripts primarily in Latin and Old Norse but also other medieval languages.
In 2012 she was awarded the Starting Grant for Young Researchers from Bergen Research Foundation (now Trond Mohn Foundation). In the project From manuscript fragments to book history (2012-2017) she and her team explored the first centuries of book and scribal culture in Norway in a European context. The approach very much depended on the analysis of script (palaeography) and other features of the once-existing book (codicology), as well as their content.
Ommundsen is an active member of the Nordic fragment network, a loosely organized network which continues a long-lived tradition of collaboration among Nordic fragment scholars, also involving international experts from other parts of Europe. The network has twice received funding for two series of exploratory workshops from the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), first in 2009 and secondly in 2018.
Outreach
Åslaug Ommundsen regularly participate in conferences and seminars, as well as holding more informal lectures and talks. She also communicates her research through online channels with a broader audience such as the University of Bergen’s knowledge base grind.no or the Norwegian encyclopedia snl.no (Store norske leksikon).
She has been instrumental in the organisation of Bergen Medieval week since 2018, a broad and diverse arena for research communication.
Teaching
Courses include Latin prose and grammar (LAT102) in the spring and Medieval Latin (LAT107) in the autumn.
The course in Medieval Latin provides a basic knowledge of Latin grammar and literature in medieval Western Europe. It also includes an introduction to European book and scribal culture 500-1500.
Publications
Åslaug Ommundsen has published extensively on manuscript (and fragment) studies, saints’ cults, and monastic history in peer reviewed books and academic journals. She has co-edited four volumes, among them Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments (2017) and St. Sunniva - Irish Queen and Norwegian Patron Saint (2021). Most of her publications are openly available and can be accessed from her Google scholar or Academia.edu profiles.
Programme participation
- Heide, Eldar; Ommundsen, Åslaug; Myking, Synnøve Midtbø (2023). Med skriftkultur på Europa-reise i mellomalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Hommedal, Alf Tore (2016). «A Book is Used”. In “A book’s life in Norway”. Audio-visual publication within the research project (leader, Åslaug Ommundsen) “From manuscript fragments to book history”. (external link)
- Ims, Frode; Ommundsen, Åslaug; Brandseth, Arnt (2013). Nærbilder: Manuskripter fra middelalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Om endringer i skriftkultur. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Grov Sørdal, Gøril (2011). Innslag om stylus på Vestlandsrevyen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Om Nonneseter i programmet Museum. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Grov Sørdal, Gøril (2011). Innslag om stylus på Språkteigen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Middelaldermusikk i Klassisk avsporing. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Innslag med Schola Solensis i Norge rundt. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Om utropsteiknet. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger Byarkiv. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Om ampersand. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Om spørjeteiknet. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Om prikken over i'en. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Sørdal, Gøril Grov (2008). Vår fortid i skrift, i 3 av 9 program. (external link)
Programme management
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2023). Det mellomalderske kyrkjerommet. Liturgi og bruk.. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2022). The Mass of Saint Olaf and a recovered sequence for a missa votiva. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Hommedal, Alf Tore; O'Hara, Alexander (2021). Den heilage Sunniva - vår vernehelgen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; O'Hara, Alexander (2021). Legenda. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2021). Ei dronning verdig. Feiringa av den heilage Sunniva ved bispesetet i Bergen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2021). Latin Memory Aids in GKS 1812 4to. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Heikkilä, Tuomas (2017). Piecing together the past: the accidental manuscript Collections of the North. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Jirouskova, Lenka; Antonsson, Haki (2017). Latin Hagiography in Medieval Norway (c. 1050-1500). (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Danish fragments in Norway and their connections to twelfth-century Lund. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). A Norwegian - and European - jigsaw puzzle of manuscript fragments. (external link)
- Attinger, Gisela; Ommundsen, Åslaug (2014). Mi 75 - eller: er det så nøye med antall linjer?. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2014). Fransk-engelsk musikk i Lunds eldre gavebok. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). The Word of God and the Stories of Saints: Medieval Liturgy and its Reception in Norway. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Psalms Interrupted. The Psalter Fragments in the NRA in Oslo. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Læresveinar for si tid - ideal og praksis. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Ei heilag jomfrun til bispesetet - Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen. (external link)
- Haugen, Odd Einar; Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Nye blikk på homilieboka. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's Legend and Its Redactions. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Homilieboka og dei liturgiske fragmenta. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). The Cults of Saints in Norway before 1200. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2006). Two Selected Sequence Sources from Norway. (external link)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- Hommedal, Alf Tore; Ommundsen, Åslaug; O'Hara, Alexander (2021). St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen / - Irish Queen, Norwegian Patron Saint. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Heikkilä, Tuomas (2017). Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments. The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Opsahl, Erik; Ugulen, Jo Rune (2014). En prisverdig historiker: Festskrift til Gunnar I. Pettersen. (external link)
- Haugen, Odd Einar; Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Vår eldste bok. Skrift, miljø og biletbruk i den norske homilieboka. (external link)
Popular scientific lecture
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2021). Miniføredrag om Sta. Sunniva. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2020). Sunnivafeiring i mellomalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2020). Bokseminar, St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Norges eldste bok - og restene av Tønsbergs bokskatter fra middelalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Bokproduksjon i Bergen i mellomalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Oppdag Nonneseter. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Kulturnatt på Nonneseter kloster. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2015). Nonneseter i Bergen i middelalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Sunniva i skrift. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Sancta Sunniva, Bergens vernehelgen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Sankta Sunniva og Seljumennene. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Ei heilag jomfru til bispesetet: Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Bitar frå ein bokkultur. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2004). Skjulte skattar på pergament. Liturgiske mellomalderhandskrift i norske arkiv. (external link)
Lecture
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2021). Jerusalem i mellomalderens Noreg. Ei nyoppdaga kjelde . (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2021). A Scandinavian scribe and Jerusalem: Pseudo-Hegesippus in recently identified fragments in Copenhagen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Heilage jomfruer i ein by for menn. Sankta Sunniva og nonnene i jomfru Marias kloster i 1100-talets Bergen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Mellomalderens Nonneseter - kvinneliv i fridom eller fangenskap. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Nonneseter i Bergen - menneska og murane. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2018). Puslespelbøkene: Bokfragment frå mellomalderen som kjeldemateriale . (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2018). Klosterets bøker, bokkultur og bokproduksjon. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Kjelder til skrivarmiljøet i Trondheim på seint 1100-tal. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Islands latinske arv. 1200-tallets tospråklige skrivere. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Olavssekvensen fra Middelalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Latinske fragment frå mellomalderen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Norwegian scriptoria ca. 1200. (external link)
Academic article
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2020). A New Manuscript Source for the Legend of Saint Clement in Denmark. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Two French or flemish manuscripts and their Scandinavian fate. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2016). To kongar, to dronningar og eit nonnekloster i Bergen. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Attinger, Gisela (2013). Icelandic liturgical books and how to recognise them. (external link)
- Gullick, Michael Robert; Ommundsen, Åslaug (2012). Two scribes and one scriptorium active in Norway c. 1200. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Nonneseter i Bergen - eit benediktinarkloster. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Saint Mary's convent ("Nonneseter") in Bergen - a Benedictine abbey. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2004). Tidebøner via data - breviarium frå ca. 1200 bak inventarlista frå Hålandsdalen. (external link)
Academic lecture
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2020). Bilingual scribes in the far North: early evidence from Trondheim, Norway. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Fragments as evidence of learned enironments. The example of twelfth-century Trondheim.. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Den latinske legenden om sankt Hallvard: en firkløver av en legende. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Nordisk fragmentsamarbeid - puslespel over landegrenser. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2018). Messebøker under kniven - mellomalderske bokfragment frå Nordhordland og Voss. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2018). European book fragments in Norway: Embracing chaos in research methods. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2018). Saint Sunniva; an Irish Queen to match a Norwegian King. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2017). Norwegian Book Fragments and the Internet. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2016). Fragments of books or fragments of fragments? The state of Norwegian medieval manuscripts in the sixteenth century and the illusion of the complete codex. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2016). The Latin memory aids in GKS 1812 4o. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Icelandic liturgical fragments and how to recognize them. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Seeing scriptoria in scraps: Norwegian manuscript fragments and their historical context. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Liturgy and Latinity in medieval Iceland. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2012). Two tongues, one pen: Latin and Old Norse literacy in medieval Scandinavia. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Icelandic scribes and liturgical book fragments. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Material Remains of Latin Grammatica in the Old Norse World. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). Levninger av latinundervisningen i norrøn tid. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). The Nordic medieval bookstore: The mobility of scribes and Latin manuscripts within the Nordic countries 1100–1300. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Status of fragment research, Norway and Denmark. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Lost - and Found - Cistercian Manuscripts in Norway. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2010). Latin Poetry in Runes in Medieval Norway. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). From saints' cults to magic spells. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Maria peperit Christum: The powers of a Latin formula. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). The Manuscript triangle France-England-Scandinavia 1100-1300. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). Reconstructing Book History from Manuscript Fragments. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2008). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2008). Grasping God’s mystified message. Medieval liturgy and Christian identity in the North. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2008). Initials in Norwegian Medieval Manuscripts. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2008). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2008). The Cults of Local Saints in Norway before 1200. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2007). Finding European centres in Nordic fragments. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2007). The monastic orders in Norway in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2007). Liturgical texts in performance. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2007). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's legend and its redactions. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2006). Text encoding in practice. The philologists experience with digitising a medieval manuscript fragment collection. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2005). Saints and sequences. Reception and production: St. Nicholas and St. Olav. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2005). Introduction: The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2004). Voices in the Periphery. The Sequences of Medieval Nidaros and the Influence from Central Europe. (external link)
Book review
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2019). Theodoricus. Egil Kraggerud, Theodoricus. De antiquitate regum Norwagiensium, On the Old Norwegian Kings, edited with translation and commentary (Oslo: Novus forlag, 2018).. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2011). John Toy (ed.): English saints in the medieval liturgies of Scandinavian churches. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Gisela, Attinger (2011). Merete Geert Andersn: Katalog over AM Accessoria 7: De latinske fragmenter (Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLVI, København 2008. 160 pp., CD-ROM with ill.). (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2009). The Sacramentary of Ratoldus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052). Edited byNicholas Orchard. Henry Bradshaw Society, 116. Pp. ccvi + 601. London: Henry BradshawSociety. 2005. ISBN: 978-1870252225. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug (2006). Jan Brunius (red.): Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden. (external link)
Doctoral dissertation
Book Translation
Interview
- Lid, Øystein; Ommundsen, Åslaug (2013). Ein mellomalder-løyndom frå Holdhus kyrkje. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Guhnfeldt, Cato (2011). Vår første skriftkultur. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Nedrebø, Rune (2008). Mariakirken i all sin prakt. (external link)
- Ommundsen, Åslaug; Selvær, Geir Arne (2008). Fant steiner fra Mariakirken. (external link)