Course shedule 2015

Introduction: Issues in Norwegian History; Geography, Settlement, and Prehistory of Norway 

Elsa Roesdahl, The Vikings, 3-184

Legendary Origins, Early Society, Farm and Kinship Systems

Topical Reading: ¡°Ynglinga Saga¡± and ¡°Harald

Hairfair¡± from Snorri Sturluson, From the Sagas of

the Norse Kings, 13-19, 24-46 

¡°Editor¡¯s Preface¡± and ¡°Introduction¡± to

Snorri Sturluson, From  the Sagas of the Norse Kings, 5-12

Nordic Myths and Culture

Topical Reading: Selections from The Prose Edda

Nordic Myths and Culture, Continued

Topical Reading: Selections from Poems of the Elder Edda, 1-35, 85-89 

Norse Settlement in Iceland, Greenland, and North America

Topical Reading: ¡±Saga of the Greenlanders¡±, from Snorri Sturluson, From the Sagas of the Norse Kings, 379-389; Njal¡¯s Saga, Chapters 124-129 (pages 254- 267)

Elsa Roesdahl, The Vikings, 185-297 

Vikings in Continental Europe (British Isles, Normandy, Russia, etc.)

Topical Reading: Simon Coupland, ¡±The Vikings inFrancia and Anglo-Saxon England to 911¡±, 190-201 

Njal¡¯s Saga, Chapters 130-145 (pages 267-329)

Unification of Norway and Conversion to Christianity

Topical Reading: Njal¡¯s Saga, Chapters 100-105 (pages 211-220) 

St. Olav

AFTERNOON EXCURSION: Historical Museum.

Meet at Blindern Metro Station, 13:45 (Free, with the class)

Topical Reading: Selections from Theodoricus 

¡°Saga of Magnus Barefoot¡± and ¡±Saga of Sigurd the Crusader¡±, 

from Snorri Sturluson,

 From the Sagas of the Norse Kings, 354-359, 360-376

The Black Death and the Kalmar Union

Sverre Bagge, ¡°Nationalism in Norway in the Middle Ages¡±, 

1-18, and K?re Lunden, ¡°Was There a Norwegian

 National Identity in the Middle Ages?¡±, 19-33 

The Reformation in Norway; 16th and 17th Century

The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment in Denmark-Norway

¡°The Miraculous Year¡± 1814; Constitution and Union

Nineteenth Century Nationalism and National Romanticism

Topical Reading: Chapter 4, ¡±The Cultural Vision¡± from Barton, Sweden and Visions of Norway, 1814-1905, pages 87-117 

Kaartvedt, Alf, ¡°The Economic Basis of Norwegian Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century¡±, 11-19,

and Haugland, Kjell, ¡°An Outline of Norwegian Cultural Nationalism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century¡±, 21-29

Emigration

Topical Reading: Introduction from Odd S. Lovoll, The Promise of America: A History of the Norwegian-American People, pages 3-30

World War I and the Interwar Years: Growth and Crisis

World War II

AFTERNOON EXCURSION: Resistance Museum

Meet at Blindern Metro Station, 13:45 (Free, with the class)

Topical Reading: Stokker, Folklore Fights the Nazis, Chapters 1 and 2, pages 23-56

Ida Blom, ¡°Nation, Class, Gender¡±, 1-16, and ¡°Women¡¯s Politics in Norway since the

End of the Nineteenth-Century¡±, 254-277, 

and Arnlaug Leira, ¡°The ¡¯Women-Friendly¡¯ Welfare State?¡ª

The Case of Norway and Sweden¡±, 49-71

Norway and the Outside World; the Significance of Oil 

Danielsen, ¡°Chronology¡±, 456-471 

29.07.15
Wednesday

Review (morning)