CfSS seminar 4/12: A Scandinavian pilgrim in the Mediterranean world in 1153 - Prof. Hans Jacob Orning (Oslo)

[Burrows, Hannah]

Dear All,

On Thursday 4 December at 5pm GMT the Scandinavian Studies seminar series will welcome Prof. Hans Jacob Orning (Oslo) to present 'A Scandinavian pilgrim in the Mediterranean world in 1153'. The talk will be online via MS Teams and the link can be found below. All very welcome!

In 1152/53 the Icelander Nikolás Bergsson travelled from Iceland to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, and had a short itinerary written about his journey.

Together with numismatist Svein Gullbekk, Prof. Orning followed in his footsteps with bicycle to Rome, resulting in the book En reise til Roma (A Journey to Rome, translation to English forthcoming).

From Rome they travelled by bicycle, ship, plane and car through the Mediterranean to write the sequel from Rome to Jerusalem.

What would Nikolas encounter in the eastern Mediterranean, how would he as an Icelander experience the region, and in what ways does the Mediterranean in 2025 depart from the Mediterranean anno 1153?

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Best wishes,

Hannah

Dr Hannah Burrows, FRHistS
Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies

Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies

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