Books:
Required:
? Libaek, Ivar and ?ivind Stenersen (2003): The History of Norway: From the Ice Age to Today, Dinamo
Forlag: Lysaker. Ask the bookstore or library about editions in Russian, German, and Norwegian.
Students must BUY this book. Can be found at Akademika bookstore at Blindern.
Optional:
? Danielsen, Rolf, et al. (1995): Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times, tr. Michael Drake,
Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget AS): Oslo. Pages 89-103, 201-214, 456-471.
Available for loan at the ISS Office.
? Roesdahl, Else (1998): The Vikings, Penguin Books: London. Available for loan at the ISS Office.
Students may also buy it themselves, if they wish.
Compendium Reading List
Articles will be available in printed compendia handed out first day of class, free of charge.
? Bagge, Sverre (1995): “Nationalism in Norway in the Middle Ages”, in Scandinavian Journal of History,
Vol. 1, 1-18.
? Barton, H. Arnold (2003): Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905, Southern
Illinois University Press: Carbondale and Edwardsville. Pages 87-117.
? Blom, Ida (1988): “Women’s Politics and Women in Politics in Norway since the End of the Nineteenth
Century,” in Retrieving Women’s History. Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and
Society, ed. Kleinberg, J.S.: Paris, 254-277.
? Blom, Ida (1996): “Nation-Class-Gender: Scandinavia at the Turn of the Century,” in Scandinavian
Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1-16.
? Coupland, Simon (1995): “The Vikings in Francia and Anglo-Saxon England to 911”, The New
Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II, c 700-900, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, 190-201.
? Haugland, Kjell (1980): “An Outline of Norwegian Cultural Nationalism in the Second Half of the
Nineteenth Century,” in The Roots of Nationalism, ed. Rosalind Mitchinson: Edinburgh, 21-29.
? Kaartvedt, Alf, (1980): “The Economic Bases of Norwegian Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century,” in
The Roots of Nationalism, ed. Rosalind Mitchinson: Edinburgh, 11-19.
? Leira, Arnlaug (1993): “The Woman-Friendly Welfare State?: The Case of Norway and Sweden,” in
Women and Social Policies in Europe, ed. Jane Lewis: Aldershot 1993, 49-71.
? Lovoll, Odd (1984): “Norway and Europe” and “The Emigration”, The Promise of America: A History of
the Norwegian American People, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis. Pages 3-30.
? Lund, Niels (1995): “Scandinavia, c. 700-1066”, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II, c
700-900, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 202-227.
? Lunden, K?re, (1995): “Was there a Norwegian National Identity in the Middle Ages?,” in Scandinavian
Journal of History, Vol. 1, 19-33.
? Njal’s Saga (1955): tr. and ed. Carl F. Bayerschmidt and Lee M. Hollander, New York University Press:
New York. Pages 1-15, 211-220, 254-329.