Ingvil Brügger Budal

Ingvil Brügger Budal is a Professor of Nordic Linguistics at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, a Professor II at NLA University College, and a special advisor in toponomy for the Norwegian Language Council. Her research spans from the transmission and adaptation of the Old Norse 12th century translations of Medieval French texts, to linguistic landscapes, language history and the didactics of language. She gained her PhD on a comparative study of the Old Norse 12^th-century collection Strengleikar, and their source texts, the Old French lais by Marie de France.

The project

Title: Du Conte du Graal à la Parzivals saga. Un examen de l'histoire des textes en vue d'une nouvelle édition de la saga norroise

"The Parzival Saga ("Saga of Perceval") is a text composed in Old Icelandic based on the French novel by Chrétien de Troyes, Le Conte du Graal ("The Tale of the Holy Grail"). This translation-adaptation was probably created around the 12t^h century, under conditions that are not fully understood to this day, although the prevailing view places its emergence during the reign of the Norwegian king Hákon Hákonarson (1217-1263). This "saga" is generally considered within the context of translations from French into the Norse (Northwest Germanic) language, translations that were carried out in Iceland and/or Norway during the 12^th century, for which only later manuscript copies have been preserved."

Hosting institution: Centre d'Études et de Recherche Éditer/Interpréter - CEREdI in Rouen

Selective Bibliography

• 2025, Food and Feast in the Arthurian World. Ed. Brégaint, Budal and Schnall. Bryggen Papers.
• 2025, "Not worth a button! From King Arthur’s round table to women’s counsel ". In: Food and Feast in the Arthurian World, Ed. Brégaint, Budal and Schnall. Bryggen Papers.
• 2025, "Les émotions françaises à la norroise". In: L'Épopée sensible — Les émotions de l'Europe médiévale et le discours épique, ed. Langebruch and Justel (École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Université de Lyon, Frankrike). Honoré Champion.
• 2025, "Å baka stumpane heile. Om lækjesteinar, urter, salvar, spjelking og stumpar". In: Kampen for livet. Helse, sjukdomar og medisinsk behandling i Norden i vikingtid og mellomalder, ed. Mundal, Aavitsland and Lærum. Spartacus Forente Forlag and Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi.
• 2025, Norsk språkhistorie for lærere. Budal (ed.), Thorvaldsen and Stjernholm Fagbokforlaget. Expanded andr evised edition.
• 2025, "Innleiing", "Norrønt" and "Språket i dansketida" In: Norsk språkhistorie for lærere. Budal (ed.), Thorvaldsen and Stjernholm. Fagbokforlaget. Expanded and revised edition.
• 2024, Språkhistoriske muligheter i skole og utdanning, ed. Stykket, Budal, Thorvaldsen and Vindenes. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
• 2024, "Språkspor på Bryggen. Lingvistiske landskap og lingistiske palimpsestar." In: Språkhistoriske muligheter i skole og utdanning, ed. Stykket, Budal, Thorvaldsen and Vindenes. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
• 2024, Ingvil Brügger Budal, Ásdís Rósa Magnúsdóttir et Hélène Tétrel: "Le fait poétique à l’épreuve de la traduction, l'exemple des sagas de chevaliers." In: Poésie et politique dans les mondes nordiques et normands médiévaux (IX^e–XIII^e siècle). Édité par Alban Gautier, Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel, Laurence Mathey-Maille. Presses Universitaires de Caen.