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Foreign Lit, 1/26, Period 2
"Good morning.
In our discussion of French literature, we mostly talked about more modern works. We will now step back in time to learn about Norse sagas.
These are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families. One of them, the Gutasaga, was written on Gotland and deals with the early history of the Gotlanders. They were written in the Old Norse language.
The texts are epic tales in prose, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone, tales of worthy men, who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian. The tales are usually realistic (except, of course, legendary sagas, sagas of saints, sagas of bishops and translated or recomposed romances), sometimes romanticised and fantastic, but always dealing with human beings we can understand."
Dream continues to lecture for about half of class. "For homework, please select and read one saga from this collection. Be prepared to discuss it and the form on Tuesday."
In our discussion of French literature, we mostly talked about more modern works. We will now step back in time to learn about Norse sagas.
These are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families. One of them, the Gutasaga, was written on Gotland and deals with the early history of the Gotlanders. They were written in the Old Norse language.
The texts are epic tales in prose, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone, tales of worthy men, who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian. The tales are usually realistic (except, of course, legendary sagas, sagas of saints, sagas of bishops and translated or recomposed romances), sometimes romanticised and fantastic, but always dealing with human beings we can understand."
Dream continues to lecture for about half of class. "For homework, please select and read one saga from this collection. Be prepared to discuss it and the form on Tuesday."
Foreign Lit, 1/26
Re: Foreign Lit, 1/26
She considers reading Beowulf (again), as she read it last semester for Western Lit and has a fair bit of catching up to do this weekend.
Re: Foreign Lit, 1/26
Re: Foreign Lit, 1/26
because it mentions Amleth, the historical Hamlet, but will have to think about which of the individual tales to do.*After class, 1/26