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The Aarhus University Summer School is an intensive short session course designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. Teaching takes place in a multinational environment, which brings together students and staff from different countries in Europe an abroad. This year's course, is an intensive short session course designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. Teaching takes place in a multinational environment, which brings together students and staff from different countries in Europe an abroad. This year's course, From Greenland to Hell. Worldly, Mythological and Visionary Travels in Old Norse Literature , allows you access to the latest knowledge in the field of Old Norse studies. It focuses on travelling and encounters with the Other, themes that are widespread in a variety of Old Norse genres, both in historical, mythological and religious literature. The Old Norse texts will be studied primarily from a literary perspective, but will also be regarded as documents of a culture encountering the unknown.
The course provides you with an excellent opportunity to meet international lecturers and fellow students and to earn credit during the summer.
The course consists of more than 45 hours of classroom instruction. In addition, there will be talks presented by guest lecturers. Class attendance is compulsory and students are expected to participate actively in class discussions. Interaction and dialogue between lecturers and students is something we highly encourage.
More information will be announced in November 2009 on http://www.nordiskinstitut.dk/ and http://www.viking-oldnorse.au.dk/
To be admitted you must be enrolled at a university. If you are applying for admission to the summer school at master's level, you must hold a bachelor's degree or a minimum of 180 ECTS in your study programme. Students applying for admission at bachelor's level must have completed at least one year of study in a relevant subject.
Students are expected to have a high level of English proficiency, to be able to read the relevant literature and follow the teaching. Documentation may be required verifying the student's proficiency in English at a specified level.
Pernille Hermann, Rolf Stavnem and international scholars
The course consists of more than 45 hours of classroom instruction. In addition, there will be talks presented by guest lecturers. Class attendance is compulsory and students are expected to participate actively in class discussions. Interaction and dialogue between lecturers and students is something we highly encourage.
Engelsk
Faulkes, A. Trans. and ed. Edda. Snorri Sturluson . North Clarendon: Everyman, (first published 1987) 1995.
Gísli Sigurðsson. The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition. A Discourse on Method . The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 2004 253-302.
Jesch, Judith. ‘Geography and Travel', in A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture . Ed. R. McTurk, 2007. 119-54.
Kellogg. Ed. The Sagas of Icelanders. With a Preface of Jane Smiley . Penguin Classics. 2000. (Selected sagas)
Larrington, Carolyne. Ed. And trans. The Poetic Edda . Oxford UP, 1996.
Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson. King Harld's Saga . Penguin Books, 2005.
McKinnell, John. Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend , Cambridge: Brewer, 2005.
Williamsen, E.A. ‘Boundaries of Difference in the Vínland Sagas', in Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005)
Sommerskolen er åben for både danske og internationale studerende.
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