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Viking culture, or the inheritance of viking tradition as it was represented and recorded in the medieval literature of Scandinavia, is strongly focused on the power of words. This focus is partly due to the importance of storytelling and poetry, and partly because communication in the viking age and the early middle ages was largely oral, with the notable execption of runic inscriptions. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Old Norse texts such as the Icelandic sagas and the eddaic poetry, genres largely endebted to viking culture in form and content, and in which the notion of the word plays an important role in the form of predictions, oaths, magic charms, promises, damnations, sayings, flytings, and more.
The importance of the spoken word is also evident in the heavy use of dialogue in Old Norse texts. It may be surprising to some that dialogue in sagas often is the dramatical climax rather than scenes of fighting and killing. It is nevertheless a fact that the spoken word in many instances is more threatening to saga characters than weapons; the reason behind this seems to be that life is temporary whereas a person's reputation may live on in tradition, ridiculed or glorified. Thus every dialogue is a potential accusation of cowardice and sexual perversion.
And in famous texts about Old Norse pagan gods and wisdom in general such as Snorri's Edda and Völuspá (The seeress' prophecy) the dialogue is the dominant narrative device.
Reading Old Norse texts about the viking age is to explore a culture and a mentality very distant and different from our own, and yet a culture that all subsequent eras up to modern day have studied with a mix of horror and fascination.
The texts read in the course will be a blend of poetry and prose, didactic and fictional, and cover classic texts such as Egils saga, Snorris Edda, The Seeress's prophecy and many more. Theoretical background reading will include articles on speech-act theory, gender studies, rhetorics, and narratology. As participation in the course does not require knowledge of Old Norse literature in advance, relevant texts on Old Norse culture, law, history, religion and mentality will be included in the syllabus.
The course is designed to convey a first-hand knowledge to a selection of Old Norse literary masterpieces and an overview of the viking/medieval culture in Scandinavia, as well as providing insight to important theories of culture and narrative not only relevant to Old Norse literature but also to the humanities in general.
Bestået relevant BA-uddannelse, jf. studieordningen
Rolf Stavnem
Undervisningen gennemføres som holdundervisning i en vekselvirkning mellem teoretisk og metodisk introduktion og praktiske analyser samt studenteroplæg.
The texts read in the course will be a blend of poetry and prose, didactic and fictional, and cover classic texts such as Egils saga, Snorris Edda, The Seeress's prophecy and many more. Theoretical background reading will include articles on speech-act theory, gender studies, rhetorics, and narratology. As participation in the course does not require knowledge of Old Norse literature in advance, relevant texts on Old Norse culture, law, history, religion and mentality will be included in the syllabus.
