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SCAND 399

Special Topics

3 units

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Nordic film history
  • Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish cinema
  • Scandinavian auteurs
  • Finnish and Icelandic cinema
Winter 2018

Topics

  • identify the primary genres of Old Norse-Icelandic literature
  • define and classify key figures, places, events in medieval Iceland
  • discuss the historical and cultural contexts of Old Norse-Icelandic literature
  • describe and critically analyze the sagas, poems, and ballads covered in class
  • conduct a comparative analysis of two works of medieval Icelandic literature of a single genre

Readings

  • Herman Palson, trans. The Book of Settlements: Landnamabok. University of Manitoba Press
    unspecified
Sources