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Preparatory Reading list - basic level

General on Old Norse manuscripts

Sverrir Tómasson: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts I: Old Icelandic’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 793-801.

Rindal, Magnus: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts II: Old Norwegian (incl. Faroese)’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 801-808.

Carlquist, Jonas: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts III: Old Swedish’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 808-816.

Frederiksen, Britta Olrik: ‘The history of Old Nordic manuscripts IV: Old Danish’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 816-824.

Old Norse paleography

Svensson, Lars: Palaeography’, Medieval Scandinavia: An encyclopedia, ed. Phillip Pulsiano et al. (New York, 1993), pp. 491-496.

Haugen, Odd Einar: ‘The development of Latin script I: in Norway’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 824-832.

Stefán Karlsson: The development of Latin script II: in Iceland’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 832-840.

Westlund, Börje: ‘The development of Latin script III: in Sweden’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 841-849.

Nielsen, Herluf: ‘The development of Latin script IV: in Denmark’, The Nordic languages: An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, ed. Oskar Bandle et al. (Berlin/New York, 2002), pp. 850-856.

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: ‘Manuscripts and palaeography’, A companion to Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture, ed. Rory McTurk (Oxford, 2005), pp. 245-264.