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		<title>Call for Papers: Inaugural St Magnus Conference, Orkney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Alexandra Sanmark:
The Centre for Nordic Studies UHI invites you and your colleagues to
submit abstracts for the Inaugural St Magnus Conference, Orkney 2011 at the Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI Millennium Institute, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland, 14-15th April, 2011.
The 2-day international conference will feature presentations on cultural and geographical connections between Scotland and the Nordic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/06/call-for-papers-inaugural-st-magnus-conference-orkney/</link>
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		<title>Peter Foote&#8217;s library up for auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Professor Peter Foote died last autumn, he most generously left his large library to the Viking Society for Northern Research, with the instructions that his books should be sold to raise funds for the society. After quite a lengthy process of packing and cataloguing the books&#8211;there are some three thousand volumes&#8211;the Society has now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/06/peter-footes-library-up-for-auction/</link>
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		<title>The Viking Age: A Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News of an exciting and potentially extremely useful new book from University of Toronto Press:
The Viking Age: A Reader
 Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald
April 2010 / 450pp / 6&#215;9 paperback / ISBN 9781442601482 / $39.95
Drawing on a wide range of original sources, and tracing the astonishing development of the Viking Age [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/05/the-viking-age-a-reader/</link>
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		<title>Runic Seminar at Aberdeen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There will be a one-day seminar on Runes in Context: Runes, Runic Inscriptions, Early Scandinavian Society and Early Germanic Languages at the University of Aberdeen on 3 May. I don&#8217;t have very much information about it, but the speakers have been confirmed&#8211;assuming the volcano stops doing its dirty work&#8211;as:
Dr Marie Stoklund, Curator Emerita and Senior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/04/runic-seminar-at-aberdeen/</link>
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		<title>New Volume of Proxima Thulé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Apologies for the long hiatus between posts -- now that the semester is over in London I hope to resume more regular updates.]
François-Xavier Dillmann has written to inform us that the latest issue of the excellent French-language journal of Medieval Scandinavian Studies, Proxima Thulé, has now been published. Here is the list of contents, followed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/04/new-volume-of-proxima-thule/</link>
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		<title>7th International Summer School in Manuscript Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Details of this year&#8217;s summer school in Medieval Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, to be held in Copenhagen, have now been published. It will take place on 12-20 August 2010. This event has been amazingly successful, and usually gets booked up quickly, so if you&#8217;re interested it would be a good idea to register as soon as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/02/7th-international-summer-school-in-manuscript-studies/</link>
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		<title>PhD Studentships in Aberdeen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news from the University of Aberdeen, where&#8211;despite the economic difficulties that are smiting higher education in Britain&#8211;the Centre for Scandinavian Studies is offering four funded PhD places for 2010/11 and a further four for the next academic year. They are looking for qualified candidates in the following subject areas:  Nordic medieval law and policy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/01/phd-studentships-in-aberdeen/</link>
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		<title>Viking Society Student Conference 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Viking Society is holding its annual student conference in London on 13 February. Everybody is welcome to attend&#8211;whether a student or not or a Society member or not.
The theme of this year&#8217;s conference is Skaldic Poetry, and the programme is as follows:
10.30 Coffee, Registration (Jeremy Bentham Room)
11.00 Richard North (London): ‘Skaldic verses. How to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/01/viking-society-student-conference-2010/</link>
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		<title>Conference in Bergen: Retrospective Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helen Leslie kindly wrote in to tell us about a conference to be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen on 13-14 September 2010. Here&#8217;s how Helen introduces the theme of the conference:
The conference is organized by the Retrospective Methods Network in cooperation with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2010/01/conference-in-bergen-retrospective-methods/</link>
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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to wish all readers of Old Norse News a very gleðileg jól. Thanks to everybody who&#8217;s contributed to discussions on the site or sent me new items to cover. The site&#8217;s really started to take off in 2009, with over 20,000 visits, and I hope you&#8217;ve found some of the information we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/12/seasons-greetings/</link>
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