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Powerpoint: Gylfaginning and Vernacular Traditions
Powerpoint for Snorra Edda course. It illustrates the links between Gylfaginning and other texts.
Powerpoint: Introduction to Háttatal
A Powerpoint slideshow introducing Háttatal.
Powerpoint: Introduction to Þiðrekssaga
An introduction to Þiðrekssaga.
Powerpoint: Medieval Rune Row
A Powerpoint slideshow introducing the medieval rune rows
Powerpoint: Runes and Vikings
A powerpoint presentation aimed at first-year undergraduates. it introduces the use and misuse of runes.
Powerpoint: The Manuscript Tradition of Skáldskaparmál
Powerpoint slideshow introducing the manuscript tradition of Skáldskaparmál.
Powerpoint: The Young Sigurd
Presentation about Sigurd the Dragonslayer and the sources for his deeds.
Powerpoint: The Younger Futhark
An introduction to the younger futhark, the pre-Viking rune row.
Publications of the Viking Society
Digital PDF versions of printed works published by The Viking Society. Includes Old Norse editions, translations and secondary literature.
Raiders, Traders and Explorers: A History of the Viking Expansion
A series of items for a six week introductory course about the Vikings, including lecture slides, reading lists and notes about the course.
Reading list for essay question on Eddic poetry and Odinic wisdom dialogue
Essay Title: ‘There is ample evidence in the eddic corpus of a distinct genre of Odinic wisdom dialogue. The poems belonging to this genre are uniform in their themes and formulaic in their execution.’ Discuss.
Reading list for essay question on eddic poetry and Snorri Sturluson
Essay Title: ‘The primary value of eddic poetry and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda is located not in their aesthetic accomplishments but in their status as mythological sources.’ Discuss.
Reading list for essay question on J. R. R. Tolkien and Norse sources
Essay Question: Which aspects of Norse mythology are borrowed and adapted by J. R. R. Tolkien in the construction of Middle-earth?
Reading list for essay question on Joanne Harris and Norse sources
Essay Question: What motivates Joanne Harris’s employment of Norse mythology in Runemarks, Runelight, and The Gospel of Loki?
Reading list for essay question on mythological stories in Bragi Boddason’s Ragnarsdrápa
Essay Question: How are mythological stories depicted in Bragi Boddason’s Ragnarsdrápa?
Reading list for essay question on Norse mythological material in Beowulf
Essay Title: ‘The incorporation of Norse mythological material in Beowulf is nothing more than a random assortment of half-remembered stories.’ Discuss.
Reading list for essay question on the figure of the hero in Ǫrvar-Odds saga
Essay Question: How is the figure of the hero presented in Ǫrvar-Odds saga?
Reading list for essay question on the figure of the poet presented in the skáldasögur
Essay Question: How is the figure of the poet presented in the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hallfreðar saga, and Kormáks saga)?
Reading list for essay question on the legend of the Vǫlsungar and its sources
Essay Question: What are the major differences between the telling of the legend of the Vǫlsungar in eddic poetry and that in Vǫlsunga saga?