| Summary: | In autumn 2007, the Centre of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius Universityhosted an international conference on Old Norse literature, mythology,culture, social life and language, held on the occasion of the 200th anniversaryof the publication in Vilnius of Edda Skandinawska by JoachimLelewel. The title of the conference − Dialogues with the Viking Age − wasborrowed from the book by Vésteinn Ólason, with the author’s kind consent.The conference became a momentous event in the history of theCentre, as it gathered together many of our good friends from throughoutthe years: Professors Thomas Bredsdorff (Denmark), Jan RagnarHagland and Jon Gunnar Jørgensen (Norway), Jurij K. Kusmenko(Russia and Germany), Vésteinn Ólason (Iceland), Dr. Kristel Zilmer(Estonia) and Dr. Aurelijus Vijūnas (Taiwan). Although, for obvious reasons titled differently, the present bookconsists of the proceedings of that conference almost in their entirety,as well as a couple of extra articles by those authors who were not ableto come to Lithuania at that time. We are grateful to all contributors,reviewers and sponsors who made it possible for the conference totake place and for the book to appear. Special thanks go to UgniusMikučionis and Dr. Aurelijus Vijūnas for their generous help in, respectively,organising the conference and editing the book.
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