All students need to acquire:
Margaret Clunies Ross: A history of Old Norse poetry and poetics , 2005. D. S. Brewer.
Vivien Law: The history of linguistics in Europe: from Plato to 1600 , 2003. Cambridge University Press.
Other texts will be distributed as needed
Suggested further reading: Primary literature
Latin Grammarians: "" in Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter: Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475, 2009. Oxford University Press. c. 150 pages.
Einar Haugen: First Grammatical Treatise. The Earliest Germanic Phonology. An Edition, Translation and Commentary., 1972. pp 12-33.
Fabrizio D. Raschellà: The So-Called Second Grammatical Treatise. Edition, Translation and Commentary, 1982. Felice le Monnier. pp 48-75.
Lucy Grace Collings: The "Málskrú?sfr??i" and the Latin Tradition in Iceland, 1967. Unpublished.
Bj?rn M. ?lsen: Den tredje og fj?rde grammatiske avhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske avhandlingers prolog og to andre till?g, 1884.
Various Old Norse Poetry and Texts (Eddas, Egils Saga etc.):
Augustine: "De doctrina Christiana" in R.P.H.Green: 1995. Clarendon Press. pp 125–31.
Suggested further reading: Secondary literature
Bjarni Einarsson: "On the r?le of verse in saga-literature" in Mediaeval Scandinavia, 1974. 118-25.
Jane Chance: Medieval Mythography I: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177, 1994. University Press of Florida. pp 18–44.
Margaret Clunies Ross: , A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics, 2005. D. S. Brewer. pp 141–205.
Frank T. Coulson: "Ovid's Metamorphoses in the school tradition of France, 1180-1400. Texts, manuscript traditions, manuscript settings" in James G. Clark et al.: Ovid in the Middle Ages, 2011. Cambridge University Press. 48-70.
Morgan Thomas Davies: "Protocols of Reading in Early Irish Literature: Notes on Some Notes to Orgain Denna Ríg and Amra Coluim Cille" in Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 32, 1996. pp 1-23.
Peter Foote: "Latin Rhetoric and Icelandic Poetry. Some Contacts" in Michael Barnes : Aurvandilstá. Norse Studies, 1984 [1982]. pp 249–70.
Roberta Frank: "Snorri and the Mead of Poetry" in Ursula Dronke: Speculum Norroenum: Norse Studies in Memory of Gabriel Turville-Petre, 1981. Odense University Press. pp 155–70.
Simon Gaunt and John Marchall: "Occitan Grammars and the Art of Troubadour Poetry" in Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism II. The Middle Ages, 2005. Cambridge University Press. pp 472–95.
Gu?rún Nordal: Tools of Literacy, 2001. Toronto University Press. pp 19–45.
Martin Irvine: The Making of Textual Culture. Grammatica and Literary Theory 350–110 , 1994. Cambridge University Press. pp 88–161.
Martin Irvine and David Thomson: "Grammatica and Literary Theory" in Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism II. The Middle Ages, 2005. Cambridge University Press. pp 15–41.
Russell Poole: "Metre and Metrics" in Rory McTurk: A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, 2005. Blackwell Publishing. pp 265–84.
Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: "Introduction" in Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism II. The Middle Ages, 2005. Cambridge University Press. pp 4–8.
J.J.Murphy: "The arts of Poetry and Prose" in Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism II. The Middle Ages, 2005. Cambridge University Press. pp 42–67.
Fabrizio Raschellà: "Grammatical Treatises" in Phillip Pulsiano: Medieval Scandinavia. An Encyclopedia, 1993. Garland Publishing. pp 235–37.
Patrick Sims-Williams and Erich Poppe: "Medieval Irish Literary Theory and Criticism" in Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism II. The Middle Ages, 2005. Cambridge University Press. pp 291–309.
Beryl Smalley: The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, 1964. University of Notre Dame Press. pp 1–36.
Diana Whaley: "Skaldic Poetry" in Rory McTurk: A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, 2005. Blackwell Publishing. pp 479–502.