MEDVL 3315

Old Norse I

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Old Norse is a collective term for the earliest North Germanic literary languages: Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, and Old Swedish. The richly documented Old Icelandic is the center of attention, and the purpose is twofold: the students gain knowledge of an ancient North Germanic language, important from a linguistic point of view, and gain access to the medieval Icelandic (and Scandinavian) literature. The structure of Old Norse (Old Icelandic), phonology, and morphology, with reading of selections from the Prose-Edda, a 13th-century narrative based on the Eddaic poetry.

Writing and Languages (LANG)

Exploratory Studies (EUAREA)

Last 3 terms offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

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