GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

Historical, cultural and linguistic aspects relating to the ancient Germanic peoples (with special regard to the influence of classical and Christian culture) and their textual production during Late Antiquity and (Early) Middle Ages. Old West Norse language and literature: introduction and reading, translation and analysis of a short passage of Snorri Sturluson's Edda

1) Nicoletta Francovich Onesti, Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma 2002 (e successive ristampe)
2) Anthony Faulkes (ed.), Snorri Sturluson, Edda. I: Prologue and Gylfaginning, London 20052,
3) Michael Barnes, A New Introduction to Old Norse, part I: Grammar, London 20083, (or: E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse, second edition revised by A.R. Taylor, Oxford 1957 or Yvonne S. Bonnetain, Breve grammatica dell’islandese antico, trad. it. a cura di Paolo Marelli, Trieste 2001)
4) Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford 1874
5) Supplementary materials