At the beginning of the course there is a short historical review of literary developments from eddic poetry to Romanticism. Autumn term Not taught 2000-2001. The inflectional morphology and phonological system will be traced up to 1500. Early texts will be read and explained, including the First Grammatical Treatise and scaldic poetry. Spring term N.N. Survey of the main concepts in translation theory and of problems occurring in translations into and from Icelandic.
Teaching takes the form of lectures and seminars.
Students carry out assignments and present them orally in class. Students also work on translations of practical and literary texts. A subject for the essay is to be chosen in consultation with the respective teacher. In consultation with a teacher, the student writes an essay. Such essays can vary considerably in length and subject matter, but as a general guideline essays should be about 30 pages long.