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We meet TTh 10:00 am - 11:15 am in South College W 201.

WEEK 11 Retelling the Past

     

    T 9 April Wars of the Swedes

    • READ/TRANS 2016b-2031b (Fitt XXVIII).
    • Read K, Intro, sections VIII and IX, pp. cix–cxxix.
    • Sixth response due (response page)

     

    Th 11 April Wars of the Swedes II

    • Read Jim Earl, "The Swedish Wars" (free through UMass); here is a handout summarizing the article.
    • Also Liuzza, pp. 157 - 158


Consider the narrative of the Wars of the Swedes. Why does the poet tell it now? How does it make us think that the poem has historical depth? How does the past work in this poem?

Extra Reading Snorri, The Death of Baldr, in K, Appendix A.III.8, pp. 295–297

Extra Reading: Renee Trilling, "Ruins in the Realms of Thoughts," JEGP 108 (2009): 141-167. (Free through UMass)

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