Miriam Conti

Position

PhD Candidate

Affiliation

Short info

I work on the prehistory and intertextuality of Eddic poetry and prosimetra through traditional philology and paleography.
I am also interested in historical linguistics, language acquisition, and Old Norse translations from Latin.
Teaching

Autumn 2024: NOFI113- Old Norse Poetry

Publications

Conferences

  • Musicality in Italian and Scandinavian Languages. Online seminar for Språkstudion at the University of Stockholm, with dr. Luca Riccardelli (Sapienza University of Rome) (February 2022).
  • Þá kømr inn ríki at regindómi: A semantic and stylistic analysis of Vǫluspá H58. 12th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North (Reykjavík, April 2023).
  • Eddic Prehistory and the Compilation of Codex Regius. Bergen Postgraduate Symposium (April 2024).
  • The Legacy of Lindblad: a Paleographic Approach to Recurring Formulas in Codex Regius. Old English and Old Norse Symposium (Oslo, May 2024).
  • Tell me that, nerd! Scribal practices in the abbreviation of "segðu mér það" in Alvíssmál and elsewhere in Codex Regius GKS 2365 4to. NECRON symposium (Oslo, October 2024), poster.
  • The Jigsaw of Alvíssmál: false fits of textual transmission. Miðaldastofa (Reykjavík, October 2024).
  • Nord e magia: il metro degli incantesimi nella poesia norrena. PhD Conference by Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (Padova, December 2024).
  • Connecting the Dots in the Poetic Edda(s). Málstofa (Reykjavík, April 2025).
  • "I know the pieces fit, but I watch them fall away": Edda R vs Edda A. Bergen Postgraduate Symposium (April 2025).
  • Il Codex (optimus?) Regius dell'Edda Poetica. LI conference by Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica (Ferrara, May 2025).