Syllabus

Books:

Required:

• Libaek, Ivar and Øivind Stenersen (2003): The History of Norway: From the Ice Age to Today, Dinamo

Forlag: Lysaker. Ask the bookstore or library about editions in Russian, German, and Norwegian.

Students must BUY this book. Can be found at Akademika bookstore at Blindern.

Optional:

• Danielsen, Rolf, et al. (1995): Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times, tr. Michael Drake,

Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget AS): Oslo. Pages 89-103, 201-214, 456-471. Available online.

Available for loan at the ISS Office.

• Roesdahl, Else (1998): The Vikings, Penguin Books: London. Available for loan at the ISS Office.

Compendium Reading List

Articles will be available either in printed compendia handed out first day of class, free of charge or online via the University of Oslo's library (logon required)

• Bagge, Sverre (2005): “Christianization and State Formation in Early Medieval Norway,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 30, No. 2, Pages 107-134.
• Bagge, Sverre (1995): “Nationalism in Norway in the Middle Ages”, in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1-18.
• Barton, H. Arnold (2003): Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905, Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale and Edwardsville. Pages 87-117.
• Blom, Ida (1988): “Women’s Politics and Women in Politics in Norway since the End of the Nineteenth Century,” in Retrieving Women’s History. Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society, ed. Kleinberg, J.S.: Paris, 254-277.
• Blom, Ida (1996): “Nation-Class-Gender: Scandinavia at the Turn of the Century,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1-16.
• Bjørnson, Øyvind (2001): “The Social Democrats and the Norwegian Welfare State: Some Perspectives,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol 26, No. 3, Pages 197-223.
• Gøbel, Erik (2011): “Danish Shipping Along the Triangular Route, 1671-1802: Voyages and Conditions on Board,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 36, No. 2, Pages 135-155. 
• Gustafsson, Harald (2006): “A State That Failed? On the Union of Kalmar, Especially its Dissolution,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 31, No. 3/4, Pages 205-220. 
• Haugland, Kjell (1980): “An Outline of Norwegian Cultural Nationalism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in The Roots of Nationalism, ed. Rosalind Mitchinson: Edinburgh, 21-29.
• Haukland, Linda (2014): “Hans Nielsen Hauge: A Catalyst of Literacy in Norway,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 39, No. 5, Pages 539-559.
• Leira, Arnlaug (1993): “The Woman-Friendly Welfare State?: The Case of Norway and Sweden,” in Women and Social Policies in Europe, ed. Jane Lewis: Aldershot 1993, 49-71.
• Lovoll, Odd (1984): “Norway and Europe” and “The Emigration,” The Promise of America: A History of the Norwegian American People, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis. Pages 3-30.
• Lund, Niels (1995): “Scandinavia, c. 700-1066”, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II, c 700-900, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 202-227.
• Njal’s Saga (1955): tr. and ed. Carl F. Bayerschmidt and Lee M. Hollander, New York University Press: New York. Pages 1-15, 211-220, 254-329.
• Olesen, Thorsten B. (2000): “Choosing or Refuting Europe? The Nordic Countries and European Integration, 1945-2000,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 25, No. 1-2, Pages 147-168.
• Poems of the Elder Edda (1990): tr. Patricia Terry, intr. Charles W. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. Pages 1-35, 85-89.
• Snorri Sturluson (1967): From the Sagas of the Norse Kings, tr. Erling Monsen, intr. Gudmund Sandvik, Dreyers Forlag: Oslo. Pages 13-19, 24-46, 379-389. 
• Snorri Sturluson (1954): The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology, tr. Jean I. Young, intr. Sigurdur Nordal, University of California Press: Berkeley. Pages 23-48.
• Stokker, Kathleen (1995): Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940-1945, Associated University Presses: London. Pages 23-88.
• Supphellen, Steinar (2007): “‘Rational Norwegian Patriotism’ in the 1780s,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 32, No. 4, Pages 376-387. 
• Theodoricus Monachus (1998): Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium: An Account of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings, tr. David and Ian McDougall, Viking Society for Northern Research, University College: London. Pages 10-31.
• Willumsen, Liv Helene (2013): “Children Accused of Witchcraft in 17^th-Century Finnmark,” in Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 38, No. 1, Pages 18-41.