| Week
1 |
Introduction,
Geography and Language |
Readings |
| Jan.
23 |
The
Scandinavian Languages and Runes |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 419-20
e-reserve: Runes and Language |
| Week
2 |
Early
Scandinavia |
|
| Jan.
30 |
Prehistory of Scandinavia to the end of
the Roman Period; Scandinavia and a European Context |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 1-24
e-reserve: Tacitus |
| Week
3 |
Early
Scandinavian Mythology |
|
| Feb.
6 |
Scandinavian
Mythology:
The beginning and the end of the wolrd |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 425-30
Poems
of the Vikings: "Voluspá"
Poems of the Vikings: "Lokasenna"
Poems of the Vikings: "Skirnir's
Journey"
Poems of the Vikings: "The
Lay of Thrym"
|
| Week
4 |
Early
Scandiavian Society |
|
| Feb.
13 |
Early
Scandiavian community and customs |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 59-96
A History of the Vikings: pp. 145-181
Poems of the Vikings: "Havamál"
Poems of the Vikings: "Rigsthula" |
| Week
5 |
The
Germanic Iron Age |
|
| Feb.
20 |
Scandinavian
story telling in its European context |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 25-33
Saga of the Volsungs |
| Week
6 |
The
Germanic Iron Age |
|
| Feb.
27 |
Legendary
history of Scandinavia |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 34-54
Poems
of the Vikings: "The First Lay of Helgi
Hunding's Bane" through "Gudrun's Chain of
Woes" |
| Week
7 |
Scandinavian
and English Contact |
|
| Mar.
6 |
Hrolf's
saga kraka and Beowulf |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 97-117
The
Saga of Hrolf Kraki |
| Mar.
10 |
First
Exam |
|
| Week
8 |
Scandinavian
Art and Image |
|
| Mar.
13 |
Scandinavian
Art |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 315-353
Poems of the Vikings: "Volund the Smith"
e-reserve "Wayland the smith" |
| Mar
20 |
SPRING
BREAK |
|
| Week
9 |
Scandiavia
and Christianity |
|
| Mar.
27 |
Early
Christian contact |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 118-140
e-reserve: Life of Saint Ansgar |
| Week
10 |
Vikings
Society |
|
| Mar.
27 |
Hrafnkel's
saga |
Hrafnkel's
saga
|
| Week
11 |
Vikings
Abroad |
|
| Apr.
3 |
Vikings
in the West |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 182-240
Egil's Saga |
| Week
12 |
Viking
Ships and Voyages |
|
| Apr.
10 |
Vikings
in the East |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 241-268
e-reserve |
| Week
13 |
Icelandic
Society |
|
| Apr.
17 |
Njál's
Saga |
Njál's
Saga
|
| Week
14 |
Vikings
in America |
|
| Apr.
24 |
Vikings
in America: Fact and Fiction |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 269-311
Erik the Red's Saga |
| Week
15 |
The
End of the Vikings Age |
|
| May
1 |
King
Harald, Hastings, Coming
of Christianity and
the End of the Viking Age |
A
History of the Vikings: pp. 354-415
King Harald's saga |
| May
19 |
Second
Exam |
|
