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15 Jan 2005

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M.A. Reading List: Mediæval

Since this is the year I'm theoretically taking my Master's exams in Swedish Lit, I thought I'd create a plan to get all the reading done this quarter. Here's a list of what needs to be done from the medieval period:

Old Icelandic Mythological Poetry

• Vǫluspá Texts online include íslensk | thorpe | bellows | wacky three-way icelandic, Pállson and Hollander. BTW I disagree with that last one's editorial comments about the accuracy of the Pállson/Hollander translations, but the texts themselves are sound (has anyone notified the UT-Austin Press about Hollander being online?)
• Skirnismal

Old Icelandic Heroic Poetry

• Helgakvida Hundingsbana II
• Atlakviða

Old Icelandic Family Prose

• Gísla saga Súrssonar
• Laxdæla saga
• Njáls saga

Old Icelandic Literary Prose

• Prose Edda Prologue
• Prose Edda Gylfaginning

Old Icelandic Learned Literature: History

• Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus: Preface & Book III

Old Icelandic Folk Literature & Ballads

• Ebbe Skammelsen
• Harpens kraft or De två systrarna
• Moen paa ballet or Herr Peder och hans syster
• Elveskud or Olav Liljekrans or Herr Olov och älvorna
• Draumkvedet
• Ballad of St. Henry I