MAS2301 - Autumn 2005

Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
19.09.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 7, 14.15 -16.00? Introduction lecture. The history of the North Atlantic? Week 38

Timeline, historical overview. Climate fluctuation and ecological transformation.The islands versus Scandinavia proper – chiefs versus kings. Pastoralism versus agriculture. Sailing ships and latitude navigation.Research history and national identities – the GHM.?

26.09.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Lecture1A. Iceland – the sources ? Week 39

The Saga period. Tales about the Commonwealth. Gó?i, gó?ord and ?ings. ?slendingabók, Landnámabók, the sagas of the Icelanders.Pagans, Christians and churches. Celtic churches and Nordic Bishops? Norwegian kings and laws. Gamli settmáli.?

03.10.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00 ? Lecture 1B. The settlement of Iceland? Week 40

The settlement of Iceland; Farms, turf houses, deforestation and erosion. Dating problems. Culture, symbols and identity.Ecology and economy: Pigs, cattle, horses, sheep and va?mál. Management of vegetational resources (forests and pastures). Imports and exports. Stockfish production, the Bergen traders and the Hanse,?

10.10.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Seminar 1S. The colonization of Iceland? Week 41

·The story of Ingolfr

·The story of Au?

·The settlement and the landscape

·DNA and history?

17.10.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00 ? Lecture 2A. Greenland and Vínland? Week 42

The settlement of Greenland. Groenlendingesaga, The Saga of Erik the red. Excerpts from Landnámabók. Farms, ruins and landscapes. The story of Vínland. Brendan and the Insula fortunate. L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.?

24.10.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Lecture 2B. Towards the end of Norse Greenland? Week 43

Churches and church lists, the topography of GreenlandHerjolfsnes, Gar?ar, Brattahli?. Ivar Baardson’s Description of GreenlandThe wedding at Hvalsey. The end of the Greenland colonization.?

31.10.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00 ? Seminar 2S. Greenland – the end?? Week 44

·It got cold and they died (Thomas H. McGovern?)

·A bridge too far (Jared Diamond)?

·Ivory out of fashion (Else Roesdal)

·The Mongols, the Hanse and the stockfish (Christian Keller)?

07.11.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Lecture 3A. The stepping stone route? Week 45

The smaller isles – hermits’ sanctuaries or pirates’ nests?Placenames in Ireland and Scotland. Genocide or demographic continuity?Boatgraves, mass-graves and hog-backs. What do they mean?Orkney and it’s earls. The Faroes – farming, birds, sheep and fishing.?

14.11.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Lecture 3B. The bigger picture? Week 46

Zooarchaeology, economy and taxation. Ethnicity, nationalism and politics of the Scandinavian Middle Ages.?

21.11.2005Christian Keller? 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken, room 10, 14.15 -16.00? Seminar 3S. The North Atlantic legacy? Week 47

·Heroic conquest or loosers’ hideout?

·Icelanders - the chroniclers of the North?

·The dream of a Greater Norway?

·Iceland as a canned Viking society

Week 48. 1st of December is the final deadline for handing in the semester paper.?

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