Primary Sources Recommended for Study
The following reading list has been complied to offer current students on the Tripos with the primary sources for the Part I study of:
Part I Paper 6 - Old Norse language and literature
Paper co-ordinator: Professor Judy Quinn
- Larrington, Carolyne, trans., The Poetic Edda (pb, Oxford World's Classics)
- Faulkes, Anthony, trans., Snorri Sturluson. Edda (pb, Everyman)
- Clunies Ross, Margaret, et al. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (Brepols) [access to printed volumes progressively available at: www.abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php]
- Frank, Roberta, Old Norse Court Poetry: the Dróttkvætt Stanza (Cornell University Press)
- Turville-Petre, E. O. G., Scaldic Poetry (Oxford University Press)
- Thorsson, Örnólfur, et al., trans., The Sagas of Icelanders. A Selection (pb, Penguin)
- Cook, Robert, trans., Njal's Saga (pb, Penguin)
- Regal, Martin, and Quinn, Judy, trans., Gisli Sursson's Saga and The Saga of the People of Eyri (pb, Penguin)
- Whaley, Diana, et al., trans., Sagas of Warrior-Poets (pb, Penguin)
- Hreinsson, Viðar, ed., The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, I-V (Reykjavík)
- Pálsson, Hermann, and Edwards, Paul, trans., Seven Viking Romances (pb, Penguin)
- Byock, Jesse, trans., Völsunga Saga (pb, Penguin)
- Vigfusson, Gudbrand, and York Powell, F., ed. and trans., Origines Islandicae, I-II (Oxford)
- Vigfusson, Gudbrand, and York Powell, F., ed. and trans., Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century (Oxford)
The textbook for the course is A New Introduction to Old Norse I-III (Viking Society for Northern Research). [The Reader, Grammar and Glossary, as well as a number of other Viking Society publications, are available as pdfs at www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk]
