NORDIC MYTHOLOGY

MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 444

Kalevala - the national epic of Finaland - and the oral literature of Finland.

FOLKLORE/LITTRANS/MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 345

Exploring the oral nature and performance traditions of folklore, ethnography, tales and ballads, literature and culture from Nordic areas and Scandinavia.

FOLKLORE/MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 235

The Icelandic sagas viewed in their social, cultural, and literary contexts. An introduction to one of the greatest bodies of vernacular literature of the early Middle Ages.

MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 409

Eddic and skaldic poetry; homilies and saints' lives, kings' sagas, sagas of the Icelanders; mythical-heroic sagas and romances; rimur.

FOLKLORE/MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 446

Examination of shared traditions and historical connections between the North and Northwest of Europe. Readings of medieval and pre-modern Scandinavian, Scottish, Welsh and Irish sagas, histories, talkes. Discussion of the role of folklore in modern Celtic and Scandinavian societies.