| Journey towards Immortality | ||
| School-classes and families | ||
| Guided Tours | ||
| Readings | ||
| Sounds of Sagas | ||
| Film Adaptations of Sagas | ||
| Lectures | ||
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Iceland is guest of honour at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair,
and the Archaeological Museum has a number of events
accompanying it. The focal point of the exhibition, readings,
lectures, musical and artistic presentations are the icelandic
sagas, those exciting and dramatic tales of heroes and
fates in the Viking period. Composed in the Old Icelandic
language in the 13th and 14th centuries, they were recorded
on parchment. Their themes are love and hate, vengeance
and revenge, politics and society in the Iceland of the High
Middle Ages.
In the exhibition’s reading room, literature enthusiasts can
browse the newly-translated icelandic sagas, published by
S. Fischer, as well as numerous other entertaining or studious
publications about the sagas and Ancient Iceland. Readings
in German and Icelandic make the narrative form of the
sagas – which seem strangely modern, despite being so
foreign to us – to an experience for the senses.
The Museum has something on offer to delight visitors’ eyes
too: an original manuscript of the Eyrbyggja saga and the
Egils saga, the presentation of a mediaeval scriptorium, and
the spiritual calligraphy of Brody Neuenschwander. Objects
from the Viking Period and the Late Middle Ages excavated
in Iceland illustrate the archaeological heritage of this island
in the far Atlantic.
The supporting programme is completed by nine lectures on
the icelandic sagas, covering literary and cultural themes,
by film adaptations of the sagas as well as by icelandic music,
which lends an archaic atmosphere.
In co-operation with the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main’s
Institut für Skandinavistik, the National Museum of Iceland,
the Diocesan Museum of Paderborn, the Herzog August Library
of Wolfenbüttel and the project office ,Fabulous Iceland‘.
Events for school-classes and families
(in German only)
Arthúr Bollason und Tilman Spreckelsen
erzählen von den Helden der Isländersagas
und ihren Abenteuern
Für Schulklassen der Jahrgangsstufen 5 – 7
• Mittwoch, 2. und 16. November, 10 bis 11 Uhr
nach Anmeldung unter 069/212-35896
Teilnahmegebühr € 3 pro Schüler/Begleitperson
Eintritt frei
Für Familien mit Kindern ab 8 Jahren
• Sonntag, 20. November, 16 Uhr
Erzählung kostenlos + Eintritt
