Old English
C Stevenson
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
Pre- or corequisite: ENH2020. Exemption with permission of the head of department
A study of the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. After an intensive introduction to the Old English language, the subject will cover a number of prose texts with cultural and historical significance (selections from The Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Alfredian texts, Aelfric's Life of St Edmund). The second half of the subject concentrates on Old English poetry, both secular and religious (`The Battle of Maldon', `The Dream of the Rood', `The Wanderer', `The Seafarer', and the shorter elegies).
Assessment
Two exercises (1500 words): 25% each * Essay (2500 words): 40% * Seminar assessment (500 words): 10% * An optional examination (3 hours) may replace up to 40% of the written work
Prescribed texts
Crossley-Holland K The Anglo-Saxon world OUP, 1984
Noble J and Moore B Old English texts Monash U, 1990