| Week 1 |
Introduction |
Readings |
| Sept.
2 |
Introduction:
The Geography,
Languages and Religion of Northern Europe |
MSL
Reserve 1: Geography |
| Week
2 |
Medieval
Scandinavia |
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| Sept.
9 |
Scandinavian Mythology |
MSL:
Reserve 2: "Völuspá' |
| Week
3 |
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| Sept.
14 |
Scandinavian Mythology |
MSL: Reserve 2: "The Lay of Skirnir"
"The Lay of Thrym" |
| Sept.
16 |
Scandinavian Christianity |
MSL Reserve 3:, Life of St. Ansgar |
| Week
4 |
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| Sept.
21 |
Old Norse Literature |
Eirik the Red Saga
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| Sept
23 |
Old Norse Literature |
Eirik the Red Saga |
| Week
5 |
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| Sept
28 |
Scandinavian Folklore |
MSL: Reserve 5: Plague Legends
Danish Folktales: "The Pancake House"
"Prince Whitebear"
"The Story of a Kitchenmaid"
""Snow White"
"About Stolen Barley-Corns"
"The Elf Children" |
| Sept
30 |
The Age of Chivalry |
Scandinavian Ballads:"German Gladenswain"
"Sir Olaf and the Fairies"
"Marsti and his Wife"
" Ebbe Skammelson"
"Thorekarl of Asgarth" |
| Week
6 |
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| Oct.
5 |
First Exam |
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| Oct.
7 |
The Reformation |
MSL: Reserve 8:Martin Luther and "Vasa Song" |
| Week
7 |
Early Modern Scandinavia |
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| Oct.
12 |
The Reformation |
MSL: Reserve 10: Kingo - Leonora Christina - Witch Legends |
| Oct.
14 |
The Baroque |
MSL: Reserve 9: "Hercules" |
| Week
8 |
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| Oct.
19 |
Age of Reason: Holberg |
Erasmus Montanus |
| Oct.
21 |
Romanticism |
MSL: Reserve
11: "The Viking" |
| Week
9 |
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| Oct
26 |
Blicher |
Tardy Awakening: "Tardy Awakening"
"The Hosier"
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| Oct
28 |
Hans Christian Andersen
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The Shadow and Other Tales: "The Nightingale" "The Story of a Mother and "Auntie Toothache" |
| Week
10 |
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| Nov.
2 |
Viktor Rydberg |
MSL: Reserve 12: Singoalla |
| Nov.
4 |
Second Exam |
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| Week
11 |
The Modern Breakthrough |
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| Nov.
9 |
The Modern Breakthrough |
MSL: Reserve 15: "The Scream" and "I Look" Sex and the Modern breakthrough: Stringberg's "Wages of Virtue" and
Kleve "Pyrric Victories" |
| Nov.
11 |
Henrik Ibsen I |
A Doll´s House
MSL: Reserve 16: Strindberg's "A Doll's
House" |
| Week
12 |
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| Nov.
16 |
The Modern Breakthrough |
MSL: Reserve 15: Money
Sex and the
Modern breakthrough: Pontoppidan "If the Wild Geese Pass"
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| Nov
18 |
August Strindberg |
"The Father" |
| Week
13 |
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| Nov
23 |
Pontoppidan
Kautokeino |
The Polar Bear
The Kautokeino Rebellion |
| Nov
25 |
TBA |
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| Week
14 |
Neo-Romanticism |
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| Nov
30 |
Finnish Literature |
MSL: Reserve 17: Juhani Aho |
| Dec.
2 |
Selma Lagerlöf |
MSL: Reserve 18: The Treasure |
| Week
15 |
Nordic Decadence |
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| Dec
7 |
Ola Hansson |
Sensitiva Amorosa |
| Dec
9 |
Hamsun |
Pan |
| Week
16 |
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| Dec.
14 |
Third Exam |
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