PALEOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY - OLD NORSE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MEDIEVAL/SCAND ST 407 or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Transcribe Old Norse-Icelandic manuscripts with accuracy, applying conventions of paleographic practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify a range of medieval and early modern scripts used in Scandinavian manuscripts and distinguish their key features. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Date manuscripts by analyzing paleographic, orthographic, and linguistic characteristics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate the relationship between manuscript transmission, scribal practice, and the historical development of Old Norse-Icelandic texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply philological methods to interpret manuscript evidence within broader literary, cultural, and historical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Produce well-researched scholarly work that integrates primary materials with critical analysis and secondary scholarship. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Transcribe Old Norse-Icelandic manuscripts with accuracy, applying conventions of paleographic practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify a range of medieval and early modern scripts used in Scandinavian manuscripts and distinguish their key features. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Date manuscripts by analyzing paleographic, orthographic, and linguistic characteristics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Evaluate the relationship between manuscript transmission, scribal practice, and the historical development of Old Norse-Icelandic texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply philological methods to interpret manuscript evidence within broader literary, cultural, and historical contexts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Produce well-researched scholarly work that integrates primary materials with critical analysis and secondary scholarship. Audience: Graduate