Englisches Seminar
Universität Münster

THE LANGUAGE OF OLD ENGLISH TEXTS

WS 04/05
Tu 11-13, Room 401
Oliver Traxel


SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester (some minor variation may occur depending on the progress of the class). Please prepare the relevant pages in the textbook (or the photocopies) before each session.


Session Date Topic Course Book: Mitchell/Robinson (2001)
       
1. 19.10. Structure of the Seminar;
Historical Background;
Easy Practice Sentences 		Handout;
§ 216 on pp. 120-3;
Text 1 on pp. 171-2
2. 26.10. Old English Orthography and Phonology;
Inflexions of Nouns, Pronouns and Adjectives 		§§ 5-9 on pp. 13-16;
§§ 10-81 on pp. 17-34
3. 2.11. Old English Verbs §§ 82-135 on pp. 34-54
4. 9.11. Old English Sound-Changes Handout
5. 16.11. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Handout
6. 23.11. Cynewulf and Cyneheard Text 6
7. 30.11. Cynewulf and Cyneheard Text 6
8. 7.12. Ælfric's Life of St Edmund Text 4b
9. 14.12. Ælfric's Life of St Edmund Text 4b
10. 21.12. Ælfric's Life of St Edmund Text 4b
11. 11.1. Ælfric's Life of St Edmund Text 4b
12. 18.1. Ælfric's Life of St Edmund Text 4b
13. 25.1. Revision Handout
14. 1.2. Final Exam Handout


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