The following books are available for purchase at the Akademika bookstore on the Blindern campus. You will find them in the section for Nordisk (Nordic Literature). Because most of these are published in the UK or US, you may find that it is less expensive to purchase them in advance and bring them with you from your home country.
We will read each major text in its entirety.
Books
Njal's Saga, May 28, 2002. Penguin Classics. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 0140447695 ISBN-13: 978-0140447699. 384 pages.
Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born: Out Stealing Horses, April 29, 2008. Picador; 1st edition. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 0312427085 ISBN-13: 978-0312427085. 256 pages.
Ludvig Holberg, translated by James I. McNelis, Jr.: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground, October 1, 2004. Bison Books. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 0803273487 ISBN-13: 978-0803273481. 236 pages.
Henrik Ibsen, translated by John Northam: Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem, December 1995. Aschehoug AS; 2nd edition. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 8200224961 ISBN-13: 978-8200224969. 193 pages.
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Walter Wykes: When we Dead Awaken, May 14, 2008. Black Box Press. ISBN:?ISB-10: 0615211828 ISBN-13: 978-0615211824. 108 pages.
Knut Hamsun, translated by Sverre Lyngstad: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, September 1, 1998. Penguin Classics. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 0141180676 ISBN-13: 978-0141180670. 160 pages.
Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds, December 31, 2002. Peter Owen Ltd. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 0720611431 ISBN-13: 978-0720611434. 224 pages.
Jon Fosse, Collected in Plays Three: Mother and Child/Sleep My Baby Sleep/Afternoon/Beautiful/Death Variations: Mother and Child, April 1, 2004. Oberon Books. ISBN:?ISBN-10: 184002478. Pages 9-78.
In Compendium
The compendium is available for purchase at the Akademika bookstore on the Blindern campus. You will find it at the compendium sales counter at the back of the store on the lower level. You will need your student ID in order to purchase the compendium.
Rolf Jacobsen, in (Red) T. Johanssen: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets: Marsh Grasses Sway, Dawn Rain, Antenna Forest, 1984. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN:?8200064786. pp.25-26, 29, 31 (In Compendium).
Olav H. Hauge, in (Red) T. Johanssen: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets: Conch Shell, the River Across the Fjord, And I was Sorrow, You Were the Wind, Old Poet has a Go at Being a Modernist, 1984. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN:?8200064786. pp.49, 51, 57 (In Compendium).
Jan Erik Vold, in (Red) T. Johanssen: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets: what's the light, 5, 12, Hokusai the Old Master, Who Painted a Wave like Nobody Ever Painted a Wave Before Him, 1984. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN:?8200064786. pp. 153, 155, 163 (In Compendium).
Eldrid Lunden, in (Red) T. Johanssen: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets: Sliding Back, Sliding, 1984. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN:?8200064786. pp. 173, 175 (In Compendium).
Cecilie L?veid, in (Red) T. Johanssen: 20 Contemporary Norwegian Poets: Captive Wild Rose, Song Behind the House (puberty) & Rye, 1984. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN:?8200064786. pp. 213, 215, 219 (In Compendium).
Other
One additional short text will be made distributed either in class as a hand out, or through the ClassFronter course administration site. It will be a folk tale as yet TBA collected by Peter Christen Asbj?rsen and J?rgen Moe.