Åslaug Ommundsen
Professor, Medieval Latin philology
- E-mailAslaug.Ommundsen@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 80 89
- Visitor AddressHF-byggetSydnesplassen 7
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Academic article
- (2020). A New Manuscript Source for the Legend of Saint Clement in Denmark. Journal of Medieval Latin. 227-256.
- (2017). Two French or flemish manuscripts and their Scandinavian fate. Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 337-359.
- (2016). To kongar, to dronningar og eit nonnekloster i Bergen. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 7-33.
- (2013). Icelandic liturgical books and how to recognise them. Scriptorium. 293-317.
- (2012). Two scribes and one scriptorium active in Norway c. 1200. Scriptorium. 25-54.
- (2010). Saint Mary's convent ("Nonneseter") in Bergen - a Benedictine abbey. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 26 pages.
- (2010). Nonneseter i Bergen - eit benediktinarkloster. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 547-571.
- (2004). Tidebøner via data - breviarium frå ca. 1200 bak inventarlista frå Hålandsdalen. Bergensposten. 78-84.
Report
- (2006). The Beginnings of Nordic Scribal Culture, ca 1050-1300; REPORT from a Workshop on Parchment Fragments, Bergen 28-30 October 2005. .
Lecture
- (2021). Jerusalem i mellomalderens Noreg. Ei nyoppdaga kjelde .
- (2021). A Scandinavian scribe and Jerusalem: Pseudo-Hegesippus in recently identified fragments in Copenhagen.
- (2019). Nonneseter i Bergen - menneska og murane.
- (2019). Mellomalderens Nonneseter - kvinneliv i fridom eller fangenskap.
- (2019). Heilage jomfruer i ein by for menn. Sankta Sunniva og nonnene i jomfru Marias kloster i 1100-talets Bergen.
- (2018). Puslespelbøkene: Bokfragment frå mellomalderen som kjeldemateriale .
- (2018). Klosterets bøker, bokkultur og bokproduksjon.
- (2017). Olavssekvensen fra Middelalderen.
- (2017). Latinske fragment frå mellomalderen.
- (2017). Kjelder til skrivarmiljøet i Trondheim på seint 1100-tal.
- (2017). Islands latinske arv. 1200-tallets tospråklige skrivere.
- (2013). Norwegian scriptoria ca. 1200.
Popular scientific lecture
- (2021). Miniføredrag om Sta. Sunniva.
- (2020). Sunnivafeiring i mellomalderen.
- (2020). Bokseminar, St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen.
- (2019). Norges eldste bok - og restene av Tønsbergs bokskatter fra middelalderen.
- (2019). Bokproduksjon i Bergen i mellomalderen.
- (2017). Oppdag Nonneseter.
- (2017). Kulturnatt på Nonneseter kloster.
- (2015). Nonneseter i Bergen i middelalderen.
- (2013). Sunniva i skrift.
- (2011). Sankta Sunniva og Seljumennene.
- (2011). Sancta Sunniva, Bergens vernehelgen.
- (2011). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen.
- (2010). Ei heilag jomfru til bispesetet: Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen.
- (2010). Bitar frå ein bokkultur.
- (2004). Skjulte skattar på pergament. Liturgiske mellomalderhandskrift i norske arkiv.
Academic lecture
- (2020). Bilingual scribes in the far North: early evidence from Trondheim, Norway.
- (2019). Nordisk fragmentsamarbeid - puslespel over landegrenser.
- (2019). Fragments as evidence of learned enironments. The example of twelfth-century Trondheim.
- (2019). Den latinske legenden om sankt Hallvard: en firkløver av en legende.
- (2018). Saint Sunniva; an Irish Queen to match a Norwegian King.
- (2018). Messebøker under kniven - mellomalderske bokfragment frå Nordhordland og Voss.
- (2018). European book fragments in Norway: Embracing chaos in research methods.
- (2017). Norwegian Book Fragments and the Internet.
- (2016). The Latin memory aids in GKS 1812 4o.
- (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.
- (2013). Seeing scriptoria in scraps: Norwegian manuscript fragments and their historical context.
- (2013). Liturgy and Latinity in medieval Iceland.
- (2013). Icelandic liturgical fragments and how to recognize them.
- (2012). Two tongues, one pen: Latin and Old Norse literacy in medieval Scandinavia.
- (2011). Material Remains of Latin Grammatica in the Old Norse World.
- (2011). Levninger av latinundervisningen i norrøn tid.
- (2011). Icelandic scribes and liturgical book fragments.
- (2010). The Nordic medieval bookstore: The mobility of scribes and Latin manuscripts within the Nordic countries 1100–1300.
- (2010). Status of fragment research, Norway and Denmark.
- (2010). Lost - and Found - Cistercian Manuscripts in Norway.
- (2010). Latin Poetry in Runes in Medieval Norway.
- (2009). The Manuscript triangle France-England-Scandinavia 1100-1300.
- (2009). Reconstructing Book History from Manuscript Fragments.
- (2009). Maria peperit Christum: The powers of a Latin formula.
- (2009). From saints' cults to magic spells.
- (2008). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers.
- (2008). The Cults of Local Saints in Norway before 1200.
- (2008). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend.
- (2008). Initials in Norwegian Medieval Manuscripts.
- (2008). Grasping God’s mystified message. Medieval liturgy and Christian identity in the North.
- (2007). The monastic orders in Norway in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- (2007). Liturgical texts in performance.
- (2007). Finding European centres in Nordic fragments.
- (2007). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's legend and its redactions.
- (2006). Text encoding in practice. The philologists experience with digitising a medieval manuscript fragment collection.
- (2005). Saints and sequences. Reception and production: St. Nicholas and St. Olav.
- (2005). Introduction: The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments.
- (2004). Voices in the Periphery. The Sequences of Medieval Nidaros and the Influence from Central Europe.
Other presentation
- (2018). Treasures from the Grave: exploring Irish Norse connections through artefacts in the University Museum of Bergen.
Short communication
- (2009). Cistercian manuscript culture in medieval Scandinavia: a workshop. Citeaux: commentarii cistercienses. 2 pages.
Book review
- (2019). Theodoricus. Egil Kraggerud, Theodoricus. De antiquitate regum Norwagiensium, On the Old Norwegian Kings, edited with translation and commentary (Oslo: Novus forlag, 2018). Klassisk Forum.
- (2011). Merete Geert Andersn: Katalog over AM Accessoria 7: De latinske fragmenter (Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLVI, København 2008. 160 pp., CD-ROM with ill.). Collegium Medievale. 174-175.
- (2011). John Toy (ed.): English saints in the medieval liturgies of Scandinavian churches. Saga-book/Viking Society for Northern Research. 83-85.
- (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. Medieval Sermon Studies. 82-83.
- (2006). Jan Brunius (red.): Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 260-262.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- (2021). St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen / - Irish Queen, Norwegian Patron Saint. Alvheim og Eide akademisk forlag.
- (2017). Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments. The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books. Routledge.
- (2014). En prisverdig historiker: Festskrift til Gunnar I. Pettersen. Riksarkivet.
- (2010). Vår eldste bok. Skrift, miljø og biletbruk i den norske homilieboka. Novus Forlag.
Compendium
- (2011). Sankta Sunniva og det heilage skrinet, lesehefte 1-3.
- (2005). The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments: Workshop material.
Database
- (2005). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
Popular scientific article
- (2011). Å skrive med stil - stylus frå Nonneseter gjenoppdaga i museets magasin. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 51-55.
- (2011). Fragment fra fortida. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 56-59.
- (2003). Mariakirken og drapet i 1525. Ny viten om Stavangers middelalderhistorie. Frá haug ok heiðni. 3-13.
Doctoral dissertation
- (2017). The French Connection. Norwegian Manuscript Fragments of French Origin and their Historical Context.
- (2007). Books, scribes and sequences in medieval Norway.
Interview
- (2013). Ein mellomalder-løyndom frå Holdhus kyrkje.
- (2011). Vår første skriftkultur.
- (2008). Mariakirken i all sin prakt.
- (2008). Fant steiner fra Mariakirken.
Programme participation
- (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”.
- (2013). Nærbilder: Manuskripter fra middelalderen.
- (2011). Om endringer i skriftkultur.
- (2011). Om Nonneseter i programmet Museum.
- (2011). Innslag om stylus på Vestlandsrevyen.
- (2011). Innslag om stylus på Språkteigen.
- (2010). Middelaldermusikk i Klassisk avsporing.
- (2010). Innslag med Schola Solensis i Norge rundt.
- (2009). Om utropsteiknet.
- (2009). Om spørjeteiknet.
- (2009). Om prikken over i'en.
- (2009). Om ampersand.
- (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger Byarkiv.
- (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger.
- (2008). Vår fortid i skrift, i 3 av 9 program.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- (2022). The Mass of Saint Olaf and a recovered sequence for a missa votiva.
- (2021). Legenda. 12 pages.
- (2021). Latin Memory Aids in GKS 1812 4to. 24 pages.
- (2021). Ei dronning verdig. Feiringa av den heilage Sunniva ved bispesetet i Bergen. 20 pages.
- (2021). Den heilage Sunniva - vår vernehelgen. 18 pages.
- (2019). Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway. 32 pages.
- (2017). Piecing together the past: the accidental manuscript Collections of the North. 23 pages.
- (2017). Latin Hagiography in Medieval Norway (c. 1050-1500). 118 pages.
- (2017). Danish fragments in Norway and their connections to twelfth-century Lund. 37 pages.
- (2017). A Norwegian - and European - jigsaw puzzle of manuscript fragments. 28 pages.
- (2014). Mi 75 - eller: er det så nøye med antall linjer? 20 pages.
- (2014). Fransk-engelsk musikk i Lunds eldre gavebok. 10 pages.
- (2013). The Word of God and the Stories of Saints: Medieval Liturgy and its Reception in Norway. 22 pages.
- (2013). Psalms Interrupted. The Psalter Fragments in the NRA in Oslo. 27 pages.
- (2013). Læresveinar for si tid - ideal og praksis. 17 pages.
- (2013). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen. 18 pages.
- (2011). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend. 10 pages.
- (2011). Ei heilag jomfrun til bispesetet - Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen. 16 pages.
- (2010). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers. 14 pages.
- (2010). The Cults of Saints in Norway before 1200. 27 pages.
- (2010). Nye blikk på homilieboka. 25 pages.
- (2010). Homilieboka og dei liturgiske fragmenta. 20 pages.
- (2010). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's Legend and Its Redactions. 22 pages.
- (2006). Two Selected Sequence Sources from Norway. 29 pages.
Encyclopedia article
- (2010). Musical and Liturgical Sources from Scandinavia. 1182-1182. In:
- (2010). The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 1-4.
Museum exhibition
- (2011). Kloster og kunnskap (Fragment fra fortida I).
Musical performance
- (2010). Una voce – gregoriansk sang med lokalt tilsnitt.
Book Translation
- (2014). Theodulf of Orleans. The verse.
Academic literature review
- (2008). From books to bindings — and back. Medieval manuscript fragments in Norway. Gazette du livre médiéval. 9 pages.
- (2006). Middelalder online. Bergens manuskriptfragmenter på nettet. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 229-234.
Internet exhibition
- (2004). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
Chapter
- (2016). Traces of Latin Education in the Old Norse World. 243-261. In:
- (2016). Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Brepols.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
From 2012 to May 2017 Åslaug Ommundsen led the project From manuscripts fragments to book history. The project was financed by Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen.
Fields of competence