The Poetic Edda – from Orality to Literacy
Eddadikten i muntlig och skriftlig tradering/The
Poetic Edda – from Orality to Literacy (2200/4121)
Moment 1: Eddic Poetry – An Introduction
Monday 15 January
Monday 22 January
Monday 29 January
Friday 2 February
Monday 5 February
Monday 12 February
14.15–16.00
14.15–16.00
Karl G. Johansson: Introductory lecture
Karl G. Johansson: Poems, Sources
and Traditions
Literature: Jónas Kristjánsson
1988:25–82.
14.15–16.00
Karl G. Johansson: From Oral to Written
– The State of Art in Eddic Studies.
Literature: Harris 1985:68–156.
14.15–16.00
Karl G. Johansson: The Manuscripts
Containing Eddic Poems.
Literature: Eddic poems.
14.15–16.00
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
14.15–16.00
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Moment 2: The Use and Abuse of Eddic Poetry
Monday 26 February
14.15–16.00
Friday 2 March
14.15–16.00
Monday 5 March
14.15–16.00
Monday 12 March
14.15–16.00
Friday 16 March
14.15–16.00
Monday 19 March
14.15–16.00
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Karl G. Johansson: The Dating of Eddic
Poetry – Mission Impossible.
Literature: Fidjestøl 2000:3–203.
Karl G. Johansson: Myths and Legends
– Methods and Pitfalls.
Literature: Clunies Ross 1994:11–41.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
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Moment 3: Oral tradition and Written Evidence
Friday 13 April
14.15–16.00
Monday 23 April
14.15–16.00
Friday 27 April
14.15–16.00
Monday 30 April
14.15–16.00
Monday 7 May
14.15–16.00
Friday 11 May
14.15–16.00
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Karl G. Johansson: Orality and Literacy
Literature: Stock 1983: 3–87.
Karl G. Johansson: Oral Formulaic
Theory and the Manuscripts.
Literature: Acker 1998:85–110; Kellogg
1991:89–101.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
Karl G. Johansson: Seminar.
Literature: Eddic poems.
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Literature
Pensum Texts
Acker, Paul. 1998. Revising Oral Theory. Formulaic Composition in Old English and
Old Icelandic Verse. New York and London; Garland Publishing, Inc. Pp. 85–110.
Clunies Ross, Margaret. 1994. Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval
Northern Society, vol. I: The Myths, Odense. Pp. 11–41.
Eddic poems, ca 250 pages. See Source texts.
Fidjestøl, Bjarne. 1999. The Dating of Eddic Poetry. A Historical Survey and
Methodological Investigation (ed. by Odd Einar Haugen). [Bibliotheca
Arnamagnæana Vol. XLI] Copenhagen; C. A. Reitzels forlag. Pp. 3–203.
Harris, Joseph. 1985. Eddic Poetry. In: Clover, Carol J. & Lindow, John (red.), Old
Norse-Icelandic Literature. A Critical Guide. Ithaca and London; Cornell
University Press. Pp. 68–156.
Jonas Kristjánsson. 1988. Eddas and Sagas. Iceland´s Medieval Literature. Reykjavík:
Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag. Pp. 25–82.
Kellogg, Robert. 1991. Literacy and Orality in the Poetic Edda. In: Doane, A. N. & Braun
Pasternack, Carol (eds.), Vox intexta. Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages.
Madison; The University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 89–101.
Stock, Brian. 1983. The Implications of Literacy. Written Language and Models of
Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Princeton; Princeton
University Press. Pp. 3–87.
Source Texts
Bugge, Sophus (utg.). 1867 (1965). Norrœn fornkvæði. Islands samling af folkelige
oldtidsdigte om Nordens guder og heroer almindeligt kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins
fróða. Christiania [new print 1965: Universitetsforlaget; Oslo].
Dronke, Ursula (ed.). 1969. The Poetic Edda. Volume I. Heroic Poems. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
Dronke, Ursula (ed.). 1997. The Poetic Edda. Volume II. Mythological Poems. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
Kuhn, Hans (ed.). 1962. Edda. Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten
Denkmälern. 1. Text. Ed. Gustav Neckel. Rev. Hans Kuhn.
Heidelberg:Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
InTranslation
Holm-Olsen, Ludvig (transl.). 1975. Eddadikt. Oslo: J. W. Cappelens forlag.
Larrington, Carolyne (transl.). 1996.The Poetic Edda. Oxford – New York; Oxford
University Press World Classics.
Further Reading
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Clunies Ross, Margaret. 1994. Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval
Northern Society, vol. I: The Myths, Odense.
Clunies Ross, Margaret. 1998. Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in medieval
Northern Society, vol. 2: The reception of Norse myths in Medieval Iceland.
Odense.
Guðrún Nordal. 2001. Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual
Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Toronto-Buffalo-London:
University of Toronto Press.
Tranter, Stephen. 1997. Clavis Metrica: Háttatal, Háttalykill and the Irish Metrical
Tracts. Basel und Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG.
Dictionaries and lexicons
Cleasby, Richard & Gudbrand Vigfusson (eds.). An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Finnur Jónsson. 1913–16 (1931; 1966). Lexicon Poeticum Antiquae Linguae
Septentrionalis; Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet
af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2. utg. 1931. København; S.L. Møller omtr. 1966.
La Farge, Beatrice & Tucker, John (eds.). 1992. Glossary to the Poetic Edda. Based on
Hans Kuhn’s Kurzes Wörterbuch. Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
See, Klaus von et al. (eds.).1997. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Bd. 2:
Götterlieder. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
See, Klaus von et al. (eds.). 2000. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Bd. 3:
Götterlieder. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
See, Klaus von et al. (eds.). 2004. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Bd. 4:
Heldenlieder. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
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