GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

Acquisition of basic competences in order to describe and interpret the main features of Germanic linguistics and typical aspects of the ancient Germanic culture

Frontal teaching, seminars, practice activities

Historical, cultural and linguistic aspects relating to the ancient Germanic peoples (with special consideration of the influence of classical and Christian culture). Introduction to Old Norse language and literature: reading, analysis and translation of a brief passage from Snorri Sturluson’s Edda

1) Nicoletta Francovich Onesti, Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma 2002 (e successive ristampe)

2) Marco Battaglia, Tradizioni letterarie della Scandinavia medievale, in Marco Battaglia (a cura di), Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, Roma 2017, pp. 345-513

3) Reference grammars: Michael Barnes, A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part I: Grammar, London 2008³, http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/NION-1-pdf (alternatively: 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; both texts can be consulted at the library of the Struttura didattica speciale di lingue e letterature straniere)

4) Reference dictionary: Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford 1874, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oi_cleasbyvigfusson_about.html

5) Other materials