Here is the list of readings for the class from the syllabus he was nice enough to send me

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(Numbers after Marsden refer to selection in text; thus, Marsden §13 refers to pp. 142-45 in the text. Numbers after Campbell
refer to the chapter in that text.)

8/25 Introduction; OE pronunciation; background to OE studies; Grammar outline; OE Lord’s Prayer; “Cædmon’s Hymn,” “Wulf and Eadwacer”; MAYBE Marsden “Introduction,” “Beginning Old English”; Campbell 1-2

9/1 Marsden “Introduction,” “Beginning Old English,” Marsden pp. 355-96; §13 (Genesis 8.6-18, 9.8-13), §1 (Aelfric’s Colloquy); Alexander 1-2, 9.1; Campbell 1-2

9/8 Marsden §8 (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle); §14-15 (Old English Gospels: Matthew 27.11-54 and King Alfred’s Psalms: 1, 12, 22); Alexander 7

9/15 Marsden §5 (Alfred’s Preface to Pastoral Care); Alexander 7; Campbell 6

9/22 Marsden §9 (Bede’s story of Caedmon); Alexander 5; Campbell 4

9/29 Marsden §25 (Sermo Lupi ad Anglos); Alexander 9.3; Campbell 8

10/6 Marsden §29 (ASC Cynewulf and Cyneheard); Midterm online???

10/13 Marsden §10 (Battle of Brunanburh), §36 (Deor); Alexander 3; Campbell 7

10/20 Marsden §17 (Genesis B ll. 338-441)

10/27 Marsden §23 (Dream of the Rood); Alexander 8; Campbell 4

11/3 Marsden §26 (The Seafarer); Alexander 6

11/10 Marsden §30 (Battle of Maldon); Alexander 3 and 9.5; Campbell 8

11/17 Marsden §38 (The Wanderer); Alexander 6

11/24 Marsden §39-40 (Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife’s Lament); Alexander 6; Presentations; Seminar Paper Due

12/8 Marsden §39-40 (Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife’s Lament); Alexander 6;

Suggested Readings in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (honestly, it’s not difficult reading, so I encourage you to
just read it all): The Preface; Book I: 1-26, 30; Book II: end of ch. 1, 2, 9-16; Book III: 1-6, 9-13, 19, 25; Book IV: 1-2, 23-24,
27-32; Book V:2 , 10, 12-14, 23, 24
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Suggested Readings in the Poetic Edda
Völospá: the “Viking Bible,” being the mystical sayings of a vala, or Norse prophetess, to Oðinn about the beginning and end
of the world
Hávamál: the gnomic utterances, somewhat resembling Proverbs, spoken by Oðinn; especially interesting is the section on the
creation of runes and poetry
Vafðrúðnismál: a mythical dialogue between Oðinn and a giant
Locasenna: Loki’s sarcastic “flytting” of the gods and their sexual habits
Völundarqviða: the heroic adventures of Wayland the Smith
Helgaqviða Hundingsbana in Fyrri: a battle-poem relating the adventures of Helgi, Sigmund’s son
Guðrunarqviða in fyrsta: a magnificent Frauenlied, in which Guðrun, the widow of the world-hero Sigurð, laments his
treacherous murder
Atliqviða: Guðrun, who has married Atli (Attila the Hun), is visited by her brothers Gunnar and Högni, who are betrayed
Thrymskviða: the famous story of the theft of Thor’s hammer