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Conversational Old Norse

A blog post about Old Norse greetings and small talk.

Common accents in Old Norse and how to use them in MS Word/Windows

A handy reference produced by Joanne Shortt Butler giving the common accents in ON, and the shortcuts for using them in MS Word.

Shortcut for hooked-o and long hooked-o

A handy shortcut for the characters hooked-o and long hooked-o, produced by Joanne Shortt Butler. The characters can be cut and pasted into Word…

Handout on 'The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi'

A handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the Old Norse literature topic of 'The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi', including background reading,…

Handout: THE ORIGINS OF SAGAS: COMPOSITION AND TRADITION

A handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the origins of sagas: composition and tradition, including a timeline, extracts from sagas, and a…

Handout: Ari Thorgilsson’s Book of the Icelanders and Icelandic Identity

A short handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the topic of Ari Thorgilsson’s Book of the Icelanders and Icelandic Identity, including a short…

Handout: Laxdœla saga

Handout on Laxdœla saga saga (The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr) by Joanne Shortt Butler, including extracts from the saga, a family tree and…

Old Norse-Icelandic Grammar: A basic course

A short introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic grammar.

Handout on Gísla saga Súrssonar

A handout produced by Rebecca Merkelbach to accompany an introductory lecture at Cambridge on Gísla saga Súrssonar (one of the Sagas of Icelanders…

Lecture notes on Gísla saga Súrssonar

Notes produced by Rebecca Merkelbach for an introductory lecture at Cambridge on Gísla saga Súrssonar (one of the Sagas of Icelanders dealing with the…

Lecture Slides: Introduction to Old Norse (Language)

Slides from three lectures introducing undergraduate students to Old Norse, with the main points of grammar covered as well as exercises to accompany…

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.’…

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’?

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Essay Question: To what extent do the authors of Gísla saga Súrssonar and Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar critique Icelandic law and the sentence of…