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Åslaug Ommundsen

Professor, Medieval Latin philology
  • E-mailAslaug.Ommundsen@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 80 89
  • Visitor Address
    HF-bygget
    Sydnesplassen 7
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2020). A New Manuscript Source for the Legend of Saint Clement in Denmark. Journal of Medieval Latin. 227-256.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Two French or flemish manuscripts and their Scandinavian fate. Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 337-359.
  • Show author(s) (2016). To kongar, to dronningar og eit nonnekloster i Bergen. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 7-33.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Icelandic liturgical books and how to recognise them. Scriptorium. 293-317.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Two scribes and one scriptorium active in Norway c. 1200. Scriptorium. 25-54.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Saint Mary's convent ("Nonneseter") in Bergen - a Benedictine abbey. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Nonneseter i Bergen - eit benediktinarkloster. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). 547-571.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Tidebøner via data - breviarium frå ca. 1200 bak inventarlista frå Hålandsdalen. Bergensposten. 78-84.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Beginnings of Nordic Scribal Culture, ca 1050-1300; REPORT from a Workshop on Parchment Fragments, Bergen 28-30 October 2005. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2021). Jerusalem i mellomalderens Noreg. Ei nyoppdaga kjelde .
  • Show author(s) (2021). A Scandinavian scribe and Jerusalem: Pseudo-Hegesippus in recently identified fragments in Copenhagen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Nonneseter i Bergen - menneska og murane.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mellomalderens Nonneseter - kvinneliv i fridom eller fangenskap.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Heilage jomfruer i ein by for menn. Sankta Sunniva og nonnene i jomfru Marias kloster i 1100-talets Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Puslespelbøkene: Bokfragment frå mellomalderen som kjeldemateriale .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Klosterets bøker, bokkultur og bokproduksjon.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Olavssekvensen fra Middelalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Latinske fragment frå mellomalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Kjelder til skrivarmiljøet i Trondheim på seint 1100-tal.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Islands latinske arv. 1200-tallets tospråklige skrivere.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Norwegian scriptoria ca. 1200.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2021). Miniføredrag om Sta. Sunniva.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Sunnivafeiring i mellomalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Bokseminar, St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Norges eldste bok - og restene av Tønsbergs bokskatter fra middelalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Bokproduksjon i Bergen i mellomalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Oppdag Nonneseter.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Kulturnatt på Nonneseter kloster.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Nonneseter i Bergen i middelalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Sunniva i skrift.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Sankta Sunniva og Seljumennene.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Sancta Sunniva, Bergens vernehelgen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Ei heilag jomfru til bispesetet: Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Bitar frå ein bokkultur.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Skjulte skattar på pergament. Liturgiske mellomalderhandskrift i norske arkiv.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2020). Bilingual scribes in the far North: early evidence from Trondheim, Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Nordisk fragmentsamarbeid - puslespel over landegrenser.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Fragments as evidence of learned enironments. The example of twelfth-century Trondheim.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Den latinske legenden om sankt Hallvard: en firkløver av en legende.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Saint Sunniva; an Irish Queen to match a Norwegian King.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Messebøker under kniven - mellomalderske bokfragment frå Nordhordland og Voss.
  • Show author(s) (2018). European book fragments in Norway: Embracing chaos in research methods.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Norwegian Book Fragments and the Internet.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The Latin memory aids in GKS 1812 4o.
  • Show author(s) (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.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Seeing scriptoria in scraps: Norwegian manuscript fragments and their historical context.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Liturgy and Latinity in medieval Iceland.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Icelandic liturgical fragments and how to recognize them.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Two tongues, one pen: Latin and Old Norse literacy in medieval Scandinavia.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Material Remains of Latin Grammatica in the Old Norse World.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Levninger av latinundervisningen i norrøn tid.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Icelandic scribes and liturgical book fragments.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Nordic medieval bookstore: The mobility of scribes and Latin manuscripts within the Nordic countries 1100–1300.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Status of fragment research, Norway and Denmark.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Lost - and Found - Cistercian Manuscripts in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Latin Poetry in Runes in Medieval Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The Manuscript triangle France-England-Scandinavia 1100-1300.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Reconstructing Book History from Manuscript Fragments.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Maria peperit Christum: The powers of a Latin formula.
  • Show author(s) (2009). From saints' cults to magic spells.
  • Show author(s) (2008). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers.
  • Show author(s) (2008). The Cults of Local Saints in Norway before 1200.
  • Show author(s) (2008). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Initials in Norwegian Medieval Manuscripts.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Grasping God’s mystified message. Medieval liturgy and Christian identity in the North.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The monastic orders in Norway in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Liturgical texts in performance.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Finding European centres in Nordic fragments.
  • Show author(s) (2007). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's legend and its redactions.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Text encoding in practice. The philologists experience with digitising a medieval manuscript fragment collection.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Saints and sequences. Reception and production: St. Nicholas and St. Olav.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Introduction: The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Voices in the Periphery. The Sequences of Medieval Nidaros and the Influence from Central Europe.
Other presentation
  • Show author(s) (2018). Treasures from the Grave: exploring Irish Norse connections through artefacts in the University Museum of Bergen.
Short communication
  • Show author(s) (2009). Cistercian manuscript culture in medieval Scandinavia: a workshop. Citeaux: commentarii cistercienses. 2 pages.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (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.
  • Show author(s) (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.
  • Show author(s) (2011). John Toy (ed.): English saints in the medieval liturgies of Scandinavian churches. Saga-book/Viking Society for Northern Research. 83-85.
  • Show author(s) (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.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Jan Brunius (red.): Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 260-262.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2021). St. Sunniva - irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen / - Irish Queen, Norwegian Patron Saint. Alvheim og Eide akademisk forlag.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments. The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2014). En prisverdig historiker: Festskrift til Gunnar I. Pettersen. Riksarkivet.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Vår eldste bok. Skrift, miljø og biletbruk i den norske homilieboka. Novus Forlag.
Compendium
  • Show author(s) (2011). Sankta Sunniva og det heilage skrinet, lesehefte 1-3.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The beginnings of Nordic scribal culture, ca 1050-1300; workshop on parchment fragments: Workshop material.
Database
  • Show author(s) (2005). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2011). Å skrive med stil - stylus frå Nonneseter gjenoppdaga i museets magasin. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 51-55.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Fragment fra fortida. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. 56-59.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Mariakirken og drapet i 1525. Ny viten om Stavangers middelalderhistorie. Frá haug ok heiðni. 3-13.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2017). The French Connection. Norwegian Manuscript Fragments of French Origin and their Historical Context.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Books, scribes and sequences in medieval Norway.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2013). Ein mellomalder-løyndom frå Holdhus kyrkje.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Vår første skriftkultur.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Mariakirken i all sin prakt.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Fant steiner fra Mariakirken.
Programme participation
  • Show author(s) (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”.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Nærbilder: Manuskripter fra middelalderen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Om endringer i skriftkultur.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Om Nonneseter i programmet Museum.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Innslag om stylus på Vestlandsrevyen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Innslag om stylus på Språkteigen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Middelaldermusikk i Klassisk avsporing.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Innslag med Schola Solensis i Norge rundt.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Om utropsteiknet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Om spørjeteiknet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Om prikken over i'en.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Om ampersand.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger Byarkiv.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Bokfragmenter i Stavanger.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Vår fortid i skrift, i 3 av 9 program.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Mass of Saint Olaf and a recovered sequence for a missa votiva.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Legenda. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Latin Memory Aids in GKS 1812 4to. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Ei dronning verdig. Feiringa av den heilage Sunniva ved bispesetet i Bergen. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Den heilage Sunniva - vår vernehelgen. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway. 32 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Piecing together the past: the accidental manuscript Collections of the North. 23 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Latin Hagiography in Medieval Norway (c. 1050-1500). 118 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Danish fragments in Norway and their connections to twelfth-century Lund. 37 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). A Norwegian - and European - jigsaw puzzle of manuscript fragments. 28 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mi 75 - eller: er det så nøye med antall linjer? 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Fransk-engelsk musikk i Lunds eldre gavebok. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The Word of God and the Stories of Saints: Medieval Liturgy and its Reception in Norway. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Psalms Interrupted. The Psalter Fragments in the NRA in Oslo. 27 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Læresveinar for si tid - ideal og praksis. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Benediktinsk klosterliv i Bergen. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). St. Hallvard as the new Tobias. Retelling the Bible in a local legend. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Ei heilag jomfrun til bispesetet - Sankta Sunniva og Bergen i mellomalderen. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Cults of Saints in Norway before 1200. 27 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Nye blikk på homilieboka. 25 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Homilieboka og dei liturgiske fragmenta. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). A Text in Flux: St. Hallvard's Legend and Its Redactions. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Two Selected Sequence Sources from Norway. 29 pages.
Encyclopedia article
  • Show author(s) (2010). Musical and Liturgical Sources from Scandinavia. 1182-1182. In:
    • Show author(s) (2010). The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 1-4.
Museum exhibition
  • Show author(s) (2011). Kloster og kunnskap (Fragment fra fortida I).
Musical performance
  • Show author(s) (2010). Una voce – gregoriansk sang med lokalt tilsnitt.
Book Translation
  • Show author(s) (2014). Theodulf of Orleans. The verse.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2008). From books to bindings — and back. Medieval manuscript fragments in Norway. Gazette du livre médiéval. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Middelalder online. Bergens manuskriptfragmenter på nettet. Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och bibliotekväsen. 229-234.
Internet exhibition
  • Show author(s) (2004). Medieval Parchment Fragments at Bergen University Library.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2016). Traces of Latin Education in the Old Norse World. 243-261. In:
    • Show author(s) (2016). Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Brepols.

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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.