Old Norse Philology

Education facts

Code: 5NS119

Philology applied to Old Norse texts is a discipline that branches into both linguistic and literary subfields. Graphonomy, palaeography, and grammar in a broad sense are combined with hermeneutics and textual scholarship, and together with historical auxiliary sciences they form the tools used to explain what a text says, what it means, and how the text and its content relate to other texts and to society. Within the framework of the course, we discuss how Old Norse texts have been edited and treated. The aim of these discussions is to critically examine and evaluate both traditional philology and New Philology.

Entry requirements

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Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Old Norse Philology

  Uppsala University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %