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Nina Stensaker is a Researcher at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen. Her doctoral project, Piecemeal and Divided - An Orthographic and Paleographical Study of Scribing Hands in the Old Norse Literary Fragments in the National Archives, focuses on identifying scribal hands and re-examining provenance for fragments NRA 51–72 and 75–81. She contributes to digital editions in the Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) and Emroon databases.
- Research Interests: Paleography, orthography, digital humanities, manuscript provenance, and medieval Nordic textual scholarship.
- Supervision: Co-supervised by Odd Einar Haugen (75%) and Åslaug Ommundsen (25%).
- Teaching: Instructs NOFI110 - Norse Handwriting Study (Autumn 2024) and has taught courses like NOFI106 - Norse Mythology and NORSK624 - Nordic Literature 2.
Recent publications such as Þiðriks saga af Bern. A Digital Edition (2024) and Didrik rir igjen. Trykt og digital utgivelse av Þiðriks saga af Bern (2022) reflect her work on digital encoding, textual reconstruction, and scribe behavior. She actively disseminates findings through academic lectures at conferences like DAIDH2024 and ESTS.
Technical Contributions: Collaborated with Robert K. Paulsen to develop the Emroon database, standardizing referential orthography for Old Norse texts.
