COURSE DETAIL

RUNOLOGY - GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Country
NORWAY
Host Institution
University of Oslo
Program(s)
University of Oslo
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Scandinavian Studies Linguistics History
UCEAP Course Number
108
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
RUNOLOGY - GENERAL INTRODUCTION
UCEAP Transcript Title
RUNOLOGY
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

Runology is concerned with some 1300 years of the history of writing. Runes constituted the script used by many Germanic peoples from the second century A.D. Their use died out in Norway around 1400. This course spans the entire history of runes and gives an overview of both the secondary literature and the inscriptions themselves. For a relevant point of comparison, the course also includes a concise introduction to contemporary Roman Alphabet epigraphy in Scandinavia.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
NFI1100
Host Institution Course Title
RUNOLOGY - GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Humanities
Host Institution Degree
Bachelor
Host Institution Department
Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
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