Syllabus/achievement requirements

Approximately 1000 pages are to be read in total. Approx. 750 pages compulsory literature according to the list of books and articles below. In addition to this students are to read approx. 250 pages of relevant literature at their own choice. 

Books:

Harry L?nnroth (ed.): Philology matters! Essays on the art of reading slowly. Leiden; Boston, 2017. Pp. 1-20, 21-34, 35-57, 75-96, 118-135, 136-163 og 164-181.

Lena Rohrbach (ed.), The Power of the Book. Berlin : Nordeuropa-Inst. der Humboldt-Univ., 2014. Pp. 39-53, 55-74, 75-97, 99-129, og 129-154.

Larsson, Inger, 2009. Pragmatic literacy and the medieval use of the vernacular. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 1–61, 105–132, 149–182

 

Kompendium:

Haugen, Odd Einar, 2009: A quarrel of the ancients and the moderns: on the merits of old and new philology in the editing of Old Norse texts. In: Ferrari, Fulvio & Bampi, Massimiliano (eds.): On editing Old Scandinavian texts: problems and perspectives. Trento. (Labirinti 119.). Pp. 9–37.

Quinn, Judy, 2000: Editing the Edda – the case of V?luspá. Scripta Islandica 51. Pp. 69–91.

Lodén, Sofia, 2014. Rewriting Le Chevalier au Lion: Different stages of literary transmission. In: Karl G. Johansson, Else Mundal (eds.), Riddaras?gur: The Translation of Medieval Court Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Pp. 91–106.

Rohrbach, Lena, 2013. Repositioning Jónsbók. Rearrangements of the law in fourteenth-century Iceland. In Steinar Imsen (ed.), Legislation and State Formation: Norway and its neighbours in the Middle Ages. Pp. 182–209.

 

Electronically available articles:

?skarsdóttir, Svanhildur, 2009. To the letter: Philology as a core component of Old Norse studies. Scripta islandica 60. Pp. 7–22.

Bordalejo, Barbara, 2018. Digital versus Analogue Textual Scholarship or The Revolution is Just in the Title. Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1. Pp. 7–28.

 

Additional litterature:

Turner, James, 2014. Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 3–380

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