Syllabus/achievement requirements

• Andersson, Theodore M. 2006. The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (1180-1280). Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. Pp. 1–20.
• Andersson, Theodore M. 2012. The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas (1200–1250). Islandica, vol. 55. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 1–82.
• Barnes, Michael. 2013. “What is runology, and where does it stay today?”  Futhark 4, 2013. Pp. 7–30.
• Boyle, Elizabeth & Deborah Hayden. 2014. “Introduction: Authority and Adaption in Medieval Ireland.” In:  Authorities and Adaptions: The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland, eds. Elizabeth Boyle & Deborah Hayden, pp. xvii–xlvii. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Charles-Edwards, T. M. 2006. “The context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland.” In: Literacy in Medieval Celtic societies, ed. Huw Pryce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 62–82.
• Clanchy, Michael. T. 1979 [2nd edition 1993]. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 253–293.
• Clunies Ross, Margaret. 2005. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. Pp. 1–68.
• Coleman, Joyce. 1996. Public reading and the reading public in late medieval England and France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1–53.
• Driscoll, Matthew J. 2010. “The Words on the Page: Thoughts on Philology, Old and New.” In: Creating the Medieval Saga: Versions, Variability and Editorial Interpretations of Old Norse Saga Literature, eds. Judy Quinn & Emily Lethbridge, pp. 87–104. Viking Collection 18. Odense: Odense University Press.
• Guðrún Nordal. 2001. Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Toronto: Toronto University Press. Pp. 3–15.
• Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson. 2013. “Caroline and Proto-Gothic Script in Norway and Iceland.” In: Latin Manuscripts of Medieval Norway. Studies in Memory of Lilli Gjerløw, ed. Espen Karlsen. Oslo: Novus. Pp. 199–213.
• Harris, Joseph. 2010. “Old Norse discourse between orality and literacy.”  In: Along the oral-written continuum. Types of texts, relations and their implications, ed. Slavica Rankovic et al., pp 119–133.  Brepols: Turnhout.
• Harvey, Anthony. 2001.  “Problems in Dating the Origin of the Ogham Script.” In: Roman, Runes and Ogham. Medieval Inscriptions in the Insular World and on the Continent, eds. John Higgitt et al., pp  37–50.  Shaun Tyas, Donington.
• Haugen, Odd Einar. 2010. “Stitching the Text Together: Documenary and Eclectic Editions in Old Norse Philology.” In: Creating the Medieval Saga: Versions, Variability and Editorial Interpretations of Old Norse Saga Literature, eds. Judy Quinn & Emily Lethbridge, pp. 39–65. Viking Collection 18. Odense: Odense University Press.
• Haukur Þorgeirsson, 'A stemmatic analysis of the Prose Edda'. 2017. Saga-Book XLI:49–70: http://uni.hi.is/haukurth/skrif/
• Hughes, Kathleen. 1977. Early Christian Ireland – Introduction to the sources. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Ch. 5, Secular Literature, pp. 163–190; Ch. 6, Ecclesiastical Learning, pp. 191–217; Ch. 7, Hagiography, 217–249).
• Louis-Jensen, Jonna. 2013. “Dating the Archetype. Eyrbyggja saga and Egils saga Skallagrímssonar.” In: Dating the Sagas. Reviews and Revisions, ed. Else Mundal, 133–147. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
• Malm, Mats. 2004. “Baldrs draumar and the Generic Turn”. Scandinavian Studies 76: 1–20.
• Mostert, Marco. 2012. “Introduction. [An adaptation and revision of “New approaches to medieval communication” from 1999].”  In: A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication, ed. Marco Mostert, pp 1–27. Brepols: Turnhout.
• Nichols, Stephen G. 1990. “Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture.” Speculum. A Journal of Mediaeval Studies 65. Pp. 1–10.
• Nichols, Stephen G. 1997. “Why Material Philology?” In: Philologie als Textwissenschaft. Alte und neue Horizonte, eds. Helmut Tervooren and Wenzel, Horst, pp. 10–30. Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 116, Sonderheft.
• Pettersen, Gunnar I. 2013. “From Parchment Books to Fragments: Norwegian Medieval Codices before and after the Reformation.” In: Latin Manuscripts of Medieval Norway. Studies in Memory of Lilli Gjerløw, ed. Espen Karlsen. Oslo: Novus. Pp. 41–65.
• Quinn, Judy. 2002. “Dialogue with a vǫlva. Vǫluspá, Baldrs draumar and Hyndluljóð.” In: The Poetic Edda. Essays on Old Norse Mythology, eds. Pauls Acker & Carolyne Larrington, pp. 245–274. New York: Routledge.
• Schökel, Luis Alonso & José María Bravo. 1998. A Manual of Hermeneutics. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. (Introduction, pp. 13–19; Part II. Text-Hermeneutics, ch 8: The Text, pp. 124–147)
• Sims-Williams, P. 2006 “The uses of writing in early medieval Wales.” In: Literacy in Medieval Celtic societies, ed. Huw Pryce, pp. 15–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stevenson, J. 1995. “Literacy and orality in early medieval Ireland.” In: Cultural identity and cultural integration: Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages, ed. D. Edel, pp. 11–22. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
• Torfi Tulinius. 2002. The Matter of the North. The rise of Literary Fiction in thirteenth-century Iceland. Odense: Odense University Press. Pp. 11–43.
• Trovato, Paolo. 2014. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lachmann’s Method, pp. 39-108. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it

Reference works

• A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture, ed. Rory McTurk. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• Handbok i norrøn filologi, ed. Odd Einar Haugen. 2. utgåve. Bergen: Fagboksforlaget, 2013

• Kulturhistoriskt lexikon för nordisk medeltid från vikingatid till reformationstid. Malmö: Allhem, 1956–1978.

• Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. ed. Sean Duffy. Taylor & Francis, (2004) 592 sider {ligger ute på nettet]

• Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. John Koch
   ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara and Oxford. 5 vols,(2006), [ligger på nettet]