Browse Items (69 total)
Sort by:
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?
Reading list for essay question on the role of poetry in the skáldasögur
Essay Question: Why do the authors of the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hallfreðar saga, and Kormáks saga) incorporate poetry in their sagas?
Reading list for essay question on Thomas Gray's Norse sources
Essay Question: How does Thomas Gray adapt his sources (Baldrs draumar and Darraðarljóð) in ‘The Descent of Odin’ and ‘The Fatal Sisters’?
Snorra Edda: Seminar Questions - Introduction and Overview
Seminar questions for the first part of a course on Snorra Edda
Snorra Edda: Seminar Questions - Myth and Snorra Edda
Seminar questions about the role of myth and mythology in Snorra Edda.
Snorra Edda: Seminar Questions - The Fictions and Narrative of Gylfaginning
Seminar questions relating to the role of trickery in Gylfaginning.
Snorra Edda: Seminar Questions - The Prologue and Gylfaginning
Seminar questions for the second part of a course on Snorra Edda. This session focuses on the Prologue and Gylfaginning
Snorra Edda: Seminar Questions - Two Myths of Misalliance
Seminar questions about the role of misalliance in Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál and Skírnismál with specific reference to Njörðr and Freyr.
Snorra Edda: Syllabus
The syllabus for a course on Snorra Edda
Syllabus: Ancient Germanic Heroic Legend
Syllabus for a course focused on Germanic heroic legends in Old Norse, Old English, Latin and Middle High German literature.
Syllabus: Fornaldarsögur Course
The syllabus for a course on the Fornaldarsögur.