Poetics of Commemoration - Goeres, Erin Michelle (Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, University College London)

The Poetics of Commemoration is a study of the role poetry played in the commemoration of kings during the Viking Age, investigating the variety of ways in which poets responded to the death of a king, and how poetry helped to constructed a shared memory and identity for the community he left behind.