SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY
SUPERVISIONS
2005 - 2006
University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Patricia Pires Boulhosa
| 1. Supervisions - Timetable and Rooms 3. Study Skills |
1 Supervisions - Timetable and Rooms
1. Settlement of Iceland - Landnámabók (doc) (pdf)
2. Haraldr inn hárfagri & the Settlement of Iceland (doc) (pdf)
3. Viking Age & Viking Raids - Scandinavian Perspectives (doc) (pdf)
4. Runestones - Jelling (doc) (pdf)
5. Cnut, Scandinavia & Skaldic Poetry (doc) (pdf)
6. Burial & Grave Goods (doc) (pdf)
8. Russia and the Vikings (doc) (pdf)
An introduction to using quotations in your essays.
An introduction to writing academic essays.
Writing and quoting Old Norse names and place-names in your essays.
One way to check the dating of Old Norse manuscripts.
(a) The Old English Font Pack for Windows and Macintosh by Professor Peter Baker has many characters for Old Norse; the fonts Junius Standard and Junius Modern are specially useful. You can also download Professor Baker's Unicode font Junicode (for Windows, Linux and Mac).
(b) For Mac computers, there is also the Edlund font by Dr Carl Anderson.
(c) You can learn how to add symbols and diacritics while using the word processor in Windows following this link.
Check some online resources to help you with some topics we discussed during our supervisions. Jonny Grove has also prepared a very thorough list of important and interesting sites, which you can donwload in doc and pdf formats.
Download a table with the dating terminology used in archaeological and historical articles.
Download a map (or try here) of Scandinavia with some of the most important sites (I'm afraid (and sorry) that the quality of the map is quite poor; I'm still trying to produce something decent by my own hand).
Donwload a blank map (or a less blank version) of Scandinavia. You can enter information - towns, market places, routes of trade and raids, etc - which you encounter in different articles (the exercise will probably improve your chances of memorizing information).
6 Revision and Complementary Bibliography
You can complement the bibliography of your essays with these reading lists, which may also be of use for your revision.
