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**课程名称：** 维京时代 (The Viking World) **课程概述：** 本课程将深入探讨维京时代的五个核心要素。 1. **维京迷思与误解：** 首先，我们将剖析关于维京人的常见迷思和误解，提供一个清晰的认知起点。 2. **维京时代的兴衰：** 接着，我们将简要回顾维京时代的崛起与衰落，探讨其发生的原因以及结束的历程。 3. **语言与文字：** 之后，课程将聚焦于维京时代的语言和文字，包括古诺斯语、卢恩字母，以及维京时代的卢恩石刻。我们将了解日耳曼语言和古诺斯语的简要语言学历史，学习如何使用卢恩字母，以及卢恩石刻的设计如何随时间演变。 4. **书面记录与历史文献：** 接下来，我们将深入研究维京时代的书面记录，涉及学者们获取维京人信息的重要历史文本，如《冰岛人传说》（中世纪冰岛的散文文学）、《散文埃达》和《诗体埃达》（北欧神话的主要资料来源），以及一位在中古手稿收藏领域的重要人物。 5. **神祇、信仰与魔法：** 最后，我们将认识北欧神话中的众神，了解冰岛和斯堪的纳维亚地区的信仰和魔法实践，并阅读一段北欧神话文本。课程将概述主要的北欧神祇，探讨在古诺斯语文本和其他历史文献中发现的信仰和魔法实践，并以阅读一段幽默的北欧神话故事《特里姆之歌》（Þrymskviða）作为结束。
This course will cover five elements of the Viking age. We will begin with an overview of myths and misconceptions about the Vikings. This will be followed by a brief history of the rise and fall of the Viking Age, why the Viking Age occurred, and what brought this glorious age to an end. The next section will explore language and writing during the Viking Age, which includes topics such as Old Norse language, the runic alphabet, and Viking runestones. A brief linguistic history of the Germanic languages and Old Nose will be given. Students will learn how to write in runes, how runes were used, and how design work on runestones changes over time. Next we shall delve into the written records of the Viking Age and the historical texts from which scholars draw their information about the Vikings. This section will cover the Sagas of the Icelanders (a body of prose literature from medieval Iceland), the Prose and Poetic Eddas (our main sources of Norse mythology), and an important figure in the field of medieval manuscript collection.Last, we will learn about the gods and goddesses of Norse mythology, cult and magic practices in Iceland and Scandinavia, and the reading aloud of a text from Norse mythology. Students will be given a brief overview of the main Norse deities. They will also learn about the cult and magic practices that are found in the Old Norse texts and other historical documents. This section will conclude with the reading of Þrymskviða, a comical tale from Old Norse mythology.
