Publications

Monographs

Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Lost but not forgotten: the Saga of Hrómundur and its manuscript transmission (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2024). ISBN 978-1-8384641-7-2.

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Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Z mieczem na wiec. Konflikt i metody jego rozwiązywania w wybranych sagach islandzkich (Wrocław: Chronicon, 2012). ISBN 9788393576029.

Out of print.
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Books as editor

Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B, Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019) (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020). ISBN 978-87-7507-490-7.

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Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Stegmann B and Vrieland S (eds), From text to artefact: Studies in honour of Anne Mette Hansen (Leeds: Kısmet Press, 2019). ISBN 978-19-1280-107-7.

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Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna and Tarrin Wills, 'Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature'. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2023). DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad013 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna and Lavender, Philip, 'The Prose Summary as Antiquarian Tool and Literary Springboard: An Edition and Translation of Ormars þáttur Framarsonar'. Opuscula 20 (2022), pp. 101-160 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia: Danish Historiography and Early Transmission and Reception of Hrómundar saga Greipssonar'. Scandinavian Studies 94:3 (2022), pp. 316-351 [Open Access].
Kestemont, Mike, Karsdorp, Folgert, de Bruijn, Elisabeth, Driscoll, Matthew, Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Ó Macháin, Pádraig, Sawyer, Daniel, Sleiderink, Remco, Chao, Anne, 'Forgotten books: the application of unseen species models to the survival of culture'. Science 375:6582 (2022), pp. 765-769 [doi] [video] [website].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'From Oral Prosimetrum to Viking Metal'. ARV - Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 77 (2021), pp. 33-56 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Perspectives on Digital Catalogs and Textual Networks of Old Norse literature'. Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 6:1 (2021), pp. 74-97 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Hrómundur in prose and verse: On the relationships between four versions of the story of Hrómundur Greipsson'. Gripla 32 (2021), pp. 257–288 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Afterlife of a lost saga: A hitherto unknown adaptation of the lost saga of Hrómundur Gripsson'. Saga-Book 45 (2021), pp. 59-90 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks: A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts'. Care and conservation 17 (2021), pp. 15-26 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Manuscripts derived from printed editions in the transmission history of Hrómundar saga Greipssonar'. Hidden Harmonies: Manuscript and print on the North Atlantic fringe, 1500-1900, edited by M. J. Driscoll and Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum 2021), pp. 79–114 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Medieval Poetry in Post-medieval Manuscripts: New Perspectives on the Transmission History of Griplur'. Scripta Islandica 71 (2020), pp. 51–98 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Between truth and fiction, or historiæ mediæ, sive vero falsoque mixtæ: Legendary sagas and their reception in eighteenth-century Denmark'. Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi 134 (2019), pp. 103–29 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'A Danish collection of Old Norse sagas: Material-philological and textual studies of Acc. 61'. From text to artefact: Studies in honour of Anne Mette Hansen, ed. Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Beeke Stegmann & Seán Vrieland (Leeds, 2019), pp. 39–46 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, and Stegmann, Beeke, 'Writing, correcting and annotating AM 601 b 4to: Material and multispectral analysis'. Opuscula 17 (2019): pp. 129–49 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, “Dating of AM 162 B alpha fol, a fragment of Brennu-Njáls saga.” Opuscula 16 (2018): pp. 217–43 [Open Access].
McDonald Werronen, Sheryl and Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'An Edition of Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda based on BL Add. 24 969'. Opuscula 16 (2018): pp. 179-215 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'A choice of relationship-revealing variants for a cladistic analysis of Old Norse texts: some methodological considerations'. Digital Humanities Symposium Proceedings (2017): pp. 52–74 [Open Access].
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Hefnd w społeczeństwie islandzkim wczesnego średniowiecza'. Meandry Historii. Starożytność, Średniowiecze, Nowożytność, Anna Kubica og Łukasz Jończyk (eds.) (Kraków, 2013): pp. 264–76.
Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, 'Model wczesnośredniowiecznej rodziny islandzkiej, przedstawiony w wybranych sagach rodowych'. Instytucja rodziny wczoraj i dziś. Perspektywa interdyscyplinarna 2, Społeczeństwo i kultura, J.K. Stępkowska og K.M. Stępkowska (eds.) (Lublin, 2012): pp. 121–27.

Book reviews

'Review of Dansk Editionshistorie edited by J. Kondrup et al.' Saga-Book 47 (2023), pp.182–7.
'Review of Long Lives of Short Sagas: The Irrepressibility of Narrative and the Case of Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra, by P. Lavender'. Saga-Book 44 (2020), pp. 198–200.
'Review of The Legendary Legacy: Transmission and reception of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, edited by M.J. Driscoll et al.' Saga-Book 43 (2019), pp. 194–6.

Digital editions

AM 162 B α fol.: A digital edition of a fragment of Njáls saga, Medieval Nordic Text Archive (2016), https://clarino.uib.no/menota/text/menota/AM-162-B-alfa-fol.
Hrómundar saga Greipssonar, based on AM 601 b 4to with variants, Taylor Editions (2024), https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/editions/hromundar_A601/.
Hrómundar saga Greipssonar, based on JS 634 4to with variants, Taylor Editions (2024), https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/editions/hromundar_J634/.
Hrómundar saga Greipssonar, based on BL Add. 11109 with variants, Taylor Editions (2024), https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/editions/hromundar_B11109/.

Outreach

Exhibition: Old Norse-Icelandic at the Taylor Institution Library

This exhibition at the Taylor Institution Library between 3 and 10 May 2024 is a showcase of the excellent range of books on Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature held at the Taylorian in Oxford.
Read about the items on display here:
https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/05/06/old-norse-icelandic-at-the-taylor-institution-library/

Virtual Exhibition: Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse in Time & Space

The Writing Histories Exhibition
This exhibition explores the beginnings of the scholarly reception of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in Denmark in the seventeenth century, when the authority of Saxo Grammaticus and his Gesta Danorum became increasingly challenged by the rediscovery of Old Norse-Icelandic sources. With this scholarly rediscovery previously forgotten sagas gained new life as they were revitalised or reinvented by early modern antiquarians.
The Paired Objects Exhibition (with Dale Kedwards)
This exhibition presents a gallery of paired objects from the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, and the National Museum of Iceland. By pairing items between these two collections, we explore the relationships between medieval traditions and the later artworks they inspired.

Blog posts, published conference abstracts, etc.

(with NK Yavuz) “Working with Manuscripts in the Digital Age.” In ICMA News (Summer 2021), pp. 22-25.
Revising Danish royal genealogies Anno 1664, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2020) here.
'Writing histories: Legendary sagas and early modern Danish historiography'. In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 33.
'What do we know about all the versions of the story of Hrómundur Greipsson?' In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 15.
'Communication and Dissemination for Early Career Scholars NECRON 2019'. In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), pp. 27–29.
(with Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B) 'Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse (NECRON): An Introduction'. In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), pp. 7–8.
(with LJ Murphy) 'A Networking Reception NECRON 2018'. In: Selected presentations from the network of early career researchers in Old Norse (2017–2019), edited by Kapitan KA, Leslie-Jacobsen HF, Murphy LJ, Nygaard S, Rogers B (Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2020), p. 26.
Chronicle of the Slavs in the Arnamagnæan Collection, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2019) here.
'Digital catalogs and analog data: Cataloging Nordic manuscripts'. Abstracts of the 12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Philadelphia, PA (2019), available here.
'When a king of Norway became a king of Russia: Transmission and reception of legendary sagas in early-modern Scandinavia'. Fyrirlestrar Miðaldastofu 2019–2020, Reykjavik (2019), available here.
A hand-written copy of a printed book: AM Acc 61, The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2018) here.
'Between transmission and reception: Lost sagas and their post-medieval manifestations'. Preprints of the 17th International Saga Conference, Reykjavík (2018), Download.
'Dating post-medieval Icelandic manuscript based on watermarks. A case study of selected nineteenth century Hrómundar saga Gripssonar manuscripts'. Abstracts of the 17th Care and Conservation of Manuscripts, Copenhagen (2018), Download.
(with K Driscoll) Advent Calendar: 1st of December, also available in Danish (2017) here.
The 1903 edition of In the Seven Woods (2017)
An Easter 'cheat sheet': AM 249 d fol., The Arnamagnæan Manuscript of the month, also available in Danish (2017) here.
'Network analysis of the manuscript context of Old Icelandic literature'. Book of Abstracts DH2017, Montreal (2017), Download.
(with T Rowbotham and T Wills) 'Visualising genre relationships in Icelandic manuscripts'. Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 2nd Conference, Götenburg (2017), Download.
'Re-approaching new stemmatics: Choice of relationship revealing readings for cladistic analysis'. Book of Abstracts, International Symposium on Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Växjö (2016), pp. 44–5, Download.

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, PhD

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