This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different written sources and what they can teach us about pre-Christian religion in northern Europe in the Viking Age. This course surveys the primary collection of Old Norse poetry about the pre-Christian Scandinavian gods, the Poetic Edda. You will also work with the main collections of stories about the Old Norse gods in prose: Snorri Sturluson's Edda and Saxo's History of the Danes.
By completing this course, you will be able to:
This is course 1 of 3 in the forthcoming specialization Norse Mythology.
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