Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, 2000: Special subjects and set texts
The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following special subjects and set texts for the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, 2000:
PART I
Paper 4. Insular Latin language and literature
Adomnán, Vita S. Columbae i. 19-20, ii. 27, iii, 6-10; Ædiluulf, Carmen de abbatibus, lines 692-795; Ælfric, Colloquium, cc. 1-6; Ælfric Bata, Colloquium, cc. 1-3, 7; Æthilwald, Carmen de peregrinatione, lines 1-106; Alcuin, Carmina i. 1562-1657, xii, xvi-xvii, xxiii, xxxii, xl, lx; Epistulae x, lxv, lxvi; Aldhelm, Carmen rhythmicum, lines 1-114; Enigm. i, ii, iv, xi, xiii, xv, xvi, xviii-xix, liv, lxxxix, xcvii; Bede, De die iudicii; Historia ecclesiastica v. 12-14; Hymni ii, iii; Boniface, Carmen ad Nithardum; Enigm. de uirtutibus, v; Enigm. de uitiis iv-v; Epistulae xiii, xv, xxvii, xxix, xxx, cxliii; Byrhtferth, Vita S. Ecgwini i. 13; Columbanus, Epistula v; De raris fabulis, cc. 1-15; Eusebius, Enigm. i-iv, li-lvi; Goscelin, Liber confortatorius i [excerpta]; Hisperica Famina, A-text, lines 190-239; Hymni anonymi Hiberno-Latini [excerpta]; Lantfred, Translatio et miracula S. Swithuni c. 35; Liber monstrorum i. 1-30; Nauigatio S. Brendani cc. 4-6, 9-10, 12, 16-17, 23; Patricius, Confessio cc. 1-13, 32-5; Rhigyfarch, Vita S. Dauidis cc. 6-19; Stephen of Ripon, Vita S. Wilfridi cc. 25-7, 33; Tatwine, Enigm. i-vi, xvi, xxiv-xxv, xxvii-xxviii; Willibald, Hodoeporicon [excerpta]. Copies of all these texts will be available when the class meets.
Paper 5. Old English language and literature (also serves as Paper 15 of Part II of the English Tripos)
King Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 755 (Cynewulf and Cyneheard): Old English Bede (The Story of Cædmon): Ælfric, Martyrdom of Alban; Ælfric, Sermones Catholici, I.15 (Easter Homily): Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi, and On False Gods; Byrhtferth's Enchiridion (The Sun); The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of the Rood; The Wife's Lament; The Wanderer; Genesis B, lines 338-441 (Satan's Challenge); Exodus, lines 447-564 (Destruction of the Egyptians); Maxims II; Five Riddles (Shield, Swan, Horn, Onion, Gospel-book); Wulf and Eadwacer; The Finnsburh Fragment; Beowulf, lines 1063-1159 (The Finn Episode), and lines 1492-1590 (Grendel's Mother). Typescripts of all these texts will be available when the class meets.
Paper 6. Old Norse language and literature (also serves as Paper 11 of Part I and Paper 17 of Part II of the English Tripos)
Auðunar þáttr: Þiðranda þáttr; Óttars þáttr svarta; Íslendingabók; Eiríks saga rauða; Sandhaugar episode from Grettis saga; Páls saga byskups: extracts from Gylfaginning; V
luspá: Guðrúnarkviða nnur; poetry attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson; Vellekla; poetry attributed to Eyvindr skáldaspillir including Hákonarmál; Eiríksmál. Typescripts of all these texts will be available when the class meets.
Paper 7. Medieval Welsh language and literature (also serves as Paper 12 of Part I and Paper 18A of Part II of the English Tripos).
'Buchedd Beuno' (text to be provided in class); Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet, ed. R. L. Thompson; Branwen Uerch Lyr, ed. D. S. Thomson; Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys, ed. B. F. Roberts; 'Two Poems from the Book of Taliesin' (in I. Williams, The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry, ed. R. Bromwich, pp. 155-80); Armes Prydein, ed. I. Williams: 'Canu Urien' and 'Claf Abercuawg' (ed. J. Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry, pp. 419-28 and 448-52): 'Preiddeu Annwn' (ed. M. Haycock. Studia Celtica, 18/19 (1983-84), 52-78), Gruffydd ab yr Ynad Coch. 'Marwnad Llywelyn ap Gruffydd' (text to be provided in class); Poems of the Cywyddwyr, ed. R. G. Rowlands, nos 1 and 2.
Paper 8. Medieval Irish language and literature
R. Thurneysen, Old Irish Reader, pp. 22-4 (nos. 1-8), 33-41; Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó (ed. R. Thurneysen); Fingal Rónáin, Esnada Tige Buchet and Orgain Denna Ríg (ed. D. Greene, Fingal Rónáin and Other Stories); Stories from the Táin (edd. J. Strachan & O. Bergin, 3rd ed.).
PART II
The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following specified subjects:
| Paper 1. |
The Anglo-Saxon Chancery |
| Paper 2. |
The Coming of Christianity |
| Paper 3. |
Literacy amongst the Celtic-speaking peoples |
| Paper 4. |
Saints' Lives |
| Paper 5. |
Beowulf |
| and |
| Paper 12. |
The Conversion of England to Christianity. |
The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following set texts:
Paper 6. Advanced medieval Scandinavian language and literature
Grettis saga, ed. G. Jónsson; Vafþrúðnismál, ed. T. Machan: Fagrskinna (extract, ed. E. V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse, no. XVII); and Guta saga, ed. H. Pipping.
Paper 7. Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature
Welsh
Culhwch and Olwen, edited by R. Bromwich and D. Simon Evans (Cardiff, 1992); Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi, edited by Ifor Williams, 2nd impression (Cardiff, 1951); Owein, or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn, edited by R. L. Thomson (Dublin 1968); Ystoria Taliesin, edited by P. K. Ford (Cardiff, 1992); Brut y Brenhinedd. Llanstephan MS 1 Version: Selections, edited by B. F. Roberts (Dublin 1971); Historia Grufud vab Kenan, edited by D. Simon Evans (Cardiff, 1977); The Welsh Life of St David, edited by D. Simon Evans (Cardiff, 1988); J. Strachan, An Introduction to Early Welsh (Manchester, 1909), pp. 208-24 ('The procedure in a suit for landed property' and ' The Privilege of St Teilo'); 'Araith Iolo Goch', in Yr Areithiau Pros, edited by D. G. Jones (Cardiff, 1934), pp. 12-17; Canu Aneirin, edited by Ifor Williams (Cardiff, 1938), stanzas 1-12A and 54-5 (lines 1-266 and 626-55); The Poems of Taliesin, ed. Ifor Williams, transl. J. E. C. Williams (Dublin 1988); 'The Juvencus Englynion', in Ifor Williams, The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry, edited by R. Bromwich (Cardiff, 1972), chapter VII (pp. 89-121); Canu Llywarch Hen, edited by Ifor Williams (Cardiff, 1935), nos I and II (pp. 1-11); Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, edited by A. O. H. Jarmen (Cardiff, 1982), nos 8 ('Cyntefin ceinaf amser', pp. 15-16), 16 ('Afallennau Myddin', pp. 26-8) and 30 ('Mechydd ap Llywarch', pp. 62-5); 'Kanu y Byt Bychan', in Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar, edited by M. Haycock (Swansea, 1994), no. 7 (pp. 57-63); Meilyr Brydydd, 'Marwysgafn', in Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i Ddisgynyddion, edited by J. E. Caerwyn Williams and others, Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, I (Cardiff, 1994), no. 4 (pp. 98-106); Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, 'Gorhoffedd', in Gwaith Llywelyn Fardd I ac Eraill o Feirdd Ddeuddegfed Ganrif, edited by K. A. Bramley and others, Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, II (Cardiff, 1994), no. 6 (pp. 114-30); Cynddelw, 'Arwyrain Madog ap Maredudd', in Gwaith Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, vol. I, edited by N. A. Jones and A. P. Owen, Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, III (Cardiff, 1991), no. 1 (pp. 1-8); Galar y Beirdd. Poets' Grief, edited by D. Johnson (Cardiff, 1993); Dafydd ap Gwilym, A Selection of Poems, edited by Rachel Bromwich (Llandysul, 1982); Iolo Goch, Poems, edited by Dafydd Johnston (Llandysul, 1993).
Cornish and Breton
Henry Lewis, Llawlyfr Cernyweg Canol, 2nd ed. (Cardiff, 1946), or Handbuch des Mittelkornischen, German edition by Stefan Zimmer (Innsbruck, 1990); Henry Lewis and J. R. F. Piette, Llawlyfr Llydaweg Canol (Cardiff, 1966), or Handbuch des Mittelbretonischen, German edition by Wolgang Meid (Innsbruck, 1990).
Paper 8. Advanced medieval Irish language and literature
R. Thurneysen, Old Irish Reader, pp. 42-57; Audacht Morainn (ed. F. Kelly); Críth Gablach (ed. D. A. Binchy); Irish Origin Legends (ed. M. A. O'Brien); 'The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare', ed. D. Ó. hAodha, Carney Festschrift, pp. 308-31; Táin Bó Cuailnge, Recension I (ed. C. O'Rahilly, lines 399-456, 1289-1386); Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Book of Leinster (ed. C. O'Rahilly, lines 739-813, 1565-1695); The Stowe Version of Táin Bó Cuailnge (ed. C. O'Rahilly, lines 764-844, 1609-1735); Lebor Bretnach (ed. A. G. Van Hamel); Merugud Uilix maic Leirtis (ed. R. T. Meyer); 'Filidh Éireann go haointeach' by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh, ed. E. Knott, Ériu 5 (1911) 50-69; Stories from Keating's History of Ireland (ed. O. Bergin, 3rd ed.).
Cambridge University Reporter, 17 June 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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