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.
Reading List:
Primary Literature:
1. "The Seeress's Prophecy" (Compendium)
2. "Sayings of the High One" (Compendium)
3. "Bendik and Aarolilja" (Compendium)
4. Ludvig Holberg: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground.
5. Asbj?rnsen and Moe: "The Princess Who Always Had to Have the Last Word," "The Old Woman Against the Stream," "White-Bear-King-Valemon," and "Good Day, Fellow! Axe Handle!" (Compendium)
6. Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt. In Ibsen's Selected Plays.
7. Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson: "Song for Norway" (hand-out)
8. Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler. In Ibsen's Selected Plays.
9. Knut Hamsun: Hunger
10. Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
11. Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds
12. Jon Fosse: Someone Is Going to Come. In Plays One.
13. Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses
14. Nordahl Grieg: To the Youth
Secondary Literature:
1. Witoszek, Nina. "Nature and Ideology: The Case of Germany and Scandinavia" (Fronter)
2. Espeland, Velle. "...all for his maiden fair: The Norwegian Ballads." (Fronter)
3. Stokker, Kathleen. "Oral Tradition, Humanism, and the Baroque" (Compendium)
4. Naess, Harald. "Holberg and the Age of Enlightenment" (Compendium)
5. Hult, Marte Hvam. "Asbj?rnsen and Moe: The Genesis of Norske folkeeventyr and Its Relationship to Norske huldreeventyr og folkesagn" (Compendium)
6. McFarlane, James. "Henrik Ibsen" (Compendium)
7. Templeton, Joan. "Genre, Representation, and the Politics of Dramatic Form: Ibsen's Realism" (Fronter)
8. McFarlane, James. "Knut Hamsun" (Compendium)
9. Mishler, William. "Sigrid Undset" (Compendium)
10. Mishler, William. "Tarjei Vesaas" (Compendium)
11. Storfjell, Troy. "Jon Fosse" (Compendium)