Postgraduate Course: Reading Old English (LASC11058)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course focuses on the acquisition of the skills necessary to work with Old English text, both in edited and in unedited form. It provides students with an opportunity to acquire a reading knowledge of Old English, together with a command of central aspects of its grammar. In addition, they will learn to transcribe passages from facsimiles of Old English manuscripts, and they will prepare a student edition of one such short passage. |
| Course description |
The course will start by concentrating on the rapid acquisition of essential basic grammar, consolidated through exercises, and on the translation of short passages of simple Old English prose. Once the basics are in place, the level of difficulty and length of the passages will increase. Less central aspects of the grammar will be dealt with gradually, over the course of the semester. At this stage, we will also begin with work on transcribing and analysing Old English from facsimiles of manuscripts, which will alternate with the translation work using printed texts.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- read and translate unseen West Saxon prose with the aid of a glossary or dictionary
- analyse unseen Old English in terms of morphological and syntactic properties
- transcribe Old English from facsimiles of manuscripts
- make a student edition of part of a facsimile of an Old English manuscript
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Reading List
You may find the following two items of particular use:
Mitchell, Bruce and Fred C. Robinson (2001) A guide to Old English, 6th edn. Blackwell, Oxford. [A later edition is of course fine, and in practice an earlier edition will do in most cases as well.]
Clark Hall, John R. (1960) A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary, 4th edn [with a supplement by Herbert D. Meritt]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [1984 reprint (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching), University of Toronto Press, Toronto.]
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Language analysis skills |
| Keywords | old English,history of the English language |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Linda Van Bergen
Tel: (0131 6)51 1998
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Course secretary | Ms Sasha Wood
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