The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following set texts for the Preliminary examination for Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, 2008.
A selection from the following:
Ælfric's Translation of Genesis: The Fall of Man; Cynewulf and Cyneheard; Alfred the Great's Preface to his Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care; Bede's Account of the Poet Cædmon; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of the Rood; The Wanderer; The Wife's Lament; Wulf and Eadwacer. All these texts ed. B. Mitchell and F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Seventh Edition (Oxford, 2007).
Excerpts from Hrólfs saga kraka, Snorra Edda, Íslendinga saga, þrymskuiða and Íslendingabók in Anthony Faulkes, ed., A New Introduction to Old Norse (London, 2000).
A selection from the following:
'Buchedd Beuno' (text to be provided in class); Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet, ed. R. L. Thomson; Branwen Uerch Lyr, ed. D. S. Thomson: Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys, ed. B. F. Roberts.
R. Thurneysen, Old Irish Reader, pp. 22-4 (nos. 1-8), 33-41; Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó (ed. R. Thurneysen).
A selection from the following:
Ælfric, Colloquium, cc. 1-6, 11-15; Ælfric Bata, Colloquia, cc. 1-3, 6, 9; Alcuin, Carmina i. 1562-1657, xiii, xvi-xvii, xxiii, xxxii, xl, lx, lxi; Alcuinian correspondence, Letters x, lxv, lxvi, cxciii, ccxxix; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica III.5-6; Bonifatian correspondence, Letters xiii, xv, xxvii, xxix, xxx, cxliii; De raris fabulis, cc. 1-6, 8-15, 23; Hygeburc, Willibald's Hodoeporicon, cc. 12-16, 18-19, 28, 30-1; Liber monstrorum i. 1-30; Nauigatio S. Brendani, cc. 4-6, 9-10, 12, 16, 23, 26; Patrick, Confessio, cc. 1-13, 26-34; Stephen of Ripon, Vita S. Wilfridi, cc. 25-7, 33; Tatwine, Enigmata i-vi, xiii, xvi, xxiv-xxv, xxvii-xxviii. Copies of all these texts will be available when the class meets.
The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following set texts for Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, 2008.
A selection from the following:
Ælfric's Translation of Genesis: The Fall of Man; Cynewulf and Cyneheard; Alfred the Great's Preface to his Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care; Ælfric, Life of St Edmund; Bede's Account of the Poet Cædmon; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of the Rood; The Wanderer; The Wife's Lament; Wulf and Eadwacer; Fifteen Riddles; Judith; Wulfstan, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos; The Finnsburh Fragment; Beowulf, lines 1063-1159 (The Finnsburh Episode), and lines 1492-1590 (Beowulf and Grendel's mother). Texts 1-13 ed. B. Mitchell and F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Seventh Edition (Oxford, 2007); the remaining texts will be available when the class meets.
A selection from the following:
Excerpts from Kormaks saga, Bjarnar saga hítdœlakappa, and Heimskringla, in A New Introduction to Old Norse, ed. A. Faulkes; Völuspá, Guðrúnarqviða II, and Hamðismál, in Edda. Die Lieder des Codex regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern, ed. G. Neckel and H. Kuhn, 5th ed.; Snorri Sturluson, Edda. Prologue and Gylfaginning, ed. A. Faulkes.
A selection from the following:
'Buchedd Beuno' (text to be provided in class); Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet, ed. R. L. Thomson; Branwen Uerch Lyr, ed. D. S. Thomson; Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys, ed. B. F. Roberts; 'Two Poems from the Book of Taliesin' (ed. I. Williams, The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry, 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); Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch, 'Marwnad Llywelyn ap Gruffudd' (text to be provided in class); Poems of the Cywyddwyr, ed. E. Rowlands, nos. 1 and 2.
A selection from the following:
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 (ed. J. Strachan and O. Bergin, 3rd ed.).
A selection from the following:
Adomnán, Vita S. Columbae i. 19-20, ii. 27, iii, 6-10; Ædiluulf, Carmen de abbatibus, lines 692-795; Ælfric, Colloquium, cc. 1-6, 11-15; Ælfric Bata, Colloquium, cc. 1-3, 6, 9; Æthilwald, Carmen de peregrinatione, lines 1-106; Alcuin, Carmina i. 1562-1657, xiii, xvi-xvii, xxiii, xxxii, xl, lx, lxi; Alcuinian correspondence, Letters x, lxv, lxvi, cxciii, ccxxix; Aldhelm, Carmen rhythmicum, lines 1-114, and Enigmata i, ii, iii, iv, xi, xiii, xv, xvi, xviii-xix, xxx, xxxii, xlix, liv, lxxxix; Asser, Life of King Alfred cc. 20-25, 76-9; Altus prosator stanzas 1-5, 17-19; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica III.5-6, V.12-14; Boniface, Enigmata de uirtutibus, v, Enigmata de uitiis, iv-v; Bonifatian correspondence, Letters x, xiii, xv, xxvii, xxix, xxx, cxliii; Byrhtferth, Vita S. Ecgwini Epilogus and I.13; Columbanus, Epistula v.1-5; De raris fabulis, cc. 1-6, 8-15, 23; Gildas, De excidio Britanniae cc. 27-31; Hygeburc, Willibald's Hodoeporicon, cc. 12-16, 18-19, 28, 30-1; Lantfred, Translatio et miracula S. Swithuni, cc, 1, 3, and 35; Liber monstrorum i. 1-30; Nauigatio S. Brendani, cc. 4-7, 9-10, 12, 16, 23, 26; Patrick, Confessio, cc. 1-13, 26-34; Rhygyfarch, Vita S. Dauidis, cc. 1-9, 15-19; Stephen of Ripon, Vita S. Wilfridi, cc. 25-7, 33; Tatwine, Enigmata i-vi, xiii, xvi, xxiv-xxv, xxvii-xxviii. Copies of all these texts will be available when the class meets.
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. The sea kings and the Celtic-speaking world, c. 1014-1164
Paper 4. Paper suspended for 2008
Paper 5. Beowulf
Paper 9. Writing women
Paper 14. The Vikings in Continental Europe and Britain, c. 800-c. 950
The Faculty Board of English give notice of the following set texts.
A selection from the following:
Excerpt from Fagrskinna in A New Introduction to Old Norse, ed. A. Faulkes (London, 2000); Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum, ed. M. Driscoll (London, 1995); Hervarar saga, ed. C. Tolkien and G. Turville-Petre (London, 1956); Snorri Sturluson, Edda. Skáldskaparmál, ed. A. Faulkes (London, 1998); the poetry attributed to Egill Skalla-grímsson, in Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning A-B, ed. Finnur Jónsson (Copenhagen, 1912-15).
A selection from the following:
Culhwch and Olwen, ed. R. Bromwich and D. S. Evans (Cardiff, 1992); Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1930); Owein, or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn, ed. R. L. Thomson (Dublin 1968); Ystoria Taliesin, ed. P. K. Ford (Cardiff, 1992); Brut y Brenhinedd. Llanstephan MS 1 Version: Selections, ed. B. F. Roberts (Dublin, 1971); Historia Grufud vab Kenan, ed. D. S. Evans (Cardiff, 1977); The Welsh Life of St David, ed. D. S. 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, ed. D. G. Jones (Cardiff, 1934), pp. 12-17; Canu Aneirin, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1938), stanzas 1-12A and 54-5 (lines 1-266 and 626-55); The Poems of Taliesin, ed. I. Williams, transl. J. E. C. Williams (Dublin, 1968); 'The Juvencus Englynion', ed. I. Williams, The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (Cardiff, 1972; 2nd ed., 1980), chapter VII (pp. 89-121); Canu Llywarch Hen, ed. I. Williams (Cardiff, 1935), nos I and II (pp. 1-11); Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, ed. A. O. H. Jarman (Cardiff, 1982), nos 8 ('Cyntefin ceinaf amser', pp. 15-16), 16 ('Afallennau Myrddin', pp. 26-8), and 30 ('Mechydd ap Llywarch', pp. 62-5); 'Kanu y Byt Bychan', in Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar, ed. M. Haycock (Swansea, 1994), no. 7 (pp. 57-63); Meilyr Brydydd, 'Marwysgafn', in Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i Ddisgynyddion, ed. J. E. C. 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, ed. 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, ed. N. A. Jones and A. P. Owen, Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, III (Cardiff, 1991), no. 1 (pp. 1-8); Galar y Beirdd. Poets' Grief, ed. D. Johnston (Cardiff, 1993); Dafydd ap Gwilym, A Selection of Poems, ed. R. Bromwich (Llandysul, 1982); Iolo Goch, Poems, ed. D. Johnston (Llandysul, 1993).
A selection from the following:
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 Wolfgang Meid (Innsbruck, 1990).
A selection from the following:
Fergus Kelly (ed. and trans.), Audacht Morainn (Dublin, 1976); James Carney (ed. and trans.), The Poems of Blathmac son of Cú Brettan together with the Irish Gospel of Thomas and a Poem on the Virgin Mary (London, 1964); Donncha Ó hAodha (ed. and trans.), 'The Lament of the Caillech Bérri', in Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney, ed. D. Ó Corráin et al. (Maynooth, 1989), pp. 308-31; Donncha Ó hAodha (ed. and trans.), Bethu Brigte (Dublin, 1978); John Carey (ed. and trans.), 'Scél Tuáin meic Chairill', Ériu 35 (1984) 93-112; Máire Bhreathnach (ed. and trans.), 'A new edition of Tochmarc Becfhola', Ériu 35 (1984) 59-91; Wolfgang Meid (ed.), Táin Bó Fraích (Dublin, 2nd ed., 1974); A. G. van Hamel (ed.), Immrama (Dublin, 1941); A. G. van Hamel (ed.), Compert Con Culainn and Other Stories (Dublin, 1933); Cecile O'Rahilly (ed. and trans.), Táin Bó Cúailnge, Recension I (Dublin, 1976), lines 399-456, 1289-1386; Cecile O'Rahilly (ed. and trans.), Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster (Dublin, 1967), lines 739-813, 1565-1695; Cecile O'Rahilly (ed.), The Stowe Version of Táin Bó Cúailnge (Dublin, 1961), lines 764-844, 1609-1735; Myles Dillon (ed.), Stories from the Acallam (Dublin, 1970); R. T. Meyer (ed.), Merugud Uilix maic Leirtis (Dublin, 1958); Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha (ed. and trans.), 'An address to a student of law', in Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney, ed. D. Ó Corráin et al. (Maynooth, 1989), pp. 159-77; Eleanor Knott (ed. and trans.), 'Filidh Éireann go haointeach', Ériu 5 (1911) 50-69; Caoimhín Breatnach (ed. and trans.), Patronage, Politics and Prose: Ceasacht Inghine Guile, Sgéala Muice Meic Dhá Thó, Oidheadh Chuinn Chéadchathaigh (Maynooth, 1996); O. J. Bergin (ed.), Stories from Keating's History of Ireland (Dublin, 1930).
A selection from the following:
Aldhelm, Prose De uirginitate and Carmen de uirginitate, ed. R. Ehwald, Aldhelmi Opera Omnia, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi 15 (Berlin, 1919); the letters written by, and addressed to, women in the Bonifatian correspondence, ed. M. Tangl, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Epistolae Selectae I (Berlin, 1916); Hygeburc's Vita s. Willibaldi episcopi and Vita s. Wynnebaldi abbatis, ed. O. Holder-Egger, Monumenta Germaniae Scriptores 15 (1887-8), 86-106 and 106-117; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum on Æthelthryth and Seaxburh (IV.19-20 [17-18]), the Barking ladies (IV.6-10), and Hild (IV.23 [21]), ed. and trans. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Oxford, 1969; reprinted 1991); Bede, In Cantica Habacuc Allegorica Expositio, ed. J. E. Hudson, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 119B (Turnhout, 1983), 381-409; Goscelin, Liber confortatorius, ed. C. H. Talbot, 'The Liber Confortatorius of Goscelin of Saint Bertin, Analecta Monastica 37 (1955) 1-117 ; Goscelin, Vita s. Edithe, ed. A. Wilmart, 'La légende de Ste Édithe en prose et vers par le moine Goscelin', Analecta Bollandiana, 56 (1938), 5-101, 265-307; Goscelin, Vita s. Mildrethe, ed. D. W. Rollason, The Mildrith Legend. A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England (Leicester, 1982), pp. 108-43; Goscelin, Vita s. Wulfilde, ed. M. Colker, 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', Studia Monastica 7 (1965), 383-460; Goscelin, Vitae ss. Werburge, Sexburge and Eormenhilde, ed. and trans., R. C. Love, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. The Lives of the Female Saints of Ely, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, 2004), pp. 1-51; anon., Vita s. Cuthburge, ed. R. Rushforth, 'The medieval hagiography of St Cuthburg', Analecta Bollandiana 118 (2000), 291-324; anon., Vita s. Fritheswithe, ed. W. J. Blair, Saint Frideswide Patron of Oxford (Oxford, 1988); Cogitosus, Vita s. Brigitae, ed. Patrologia Latina 72, cols. 775-90, and Acta Sanctorum, Feb. I.135-41; Conchubranus, Vita s. Monennae, ed. M. Esposito, 'Conchubrani Vita Sanctae Monennae', Proceedings of theRoyal Irish Academy 28C (1910), 202-38; Ulster Society of Mediaeval Latin Studies, 'The Life of St Monenna by Conchubranus', Seanchas Ardmhacha 9 (1978-9), 250-73 and 10 (1980-2), 117-41; anon., Vita s. Wenefredae (ed. A. W. Wade-Evans, Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae (Cardiff, 1944), pp. 288-308; anon., Vita S. Osmannae, ed. Acta Sanctorum, Sept. III.417-25; Turgot, Vita S. Margaretae reginae Scotiae, ed. Acta Sanctorum, Iun., II.328-35; J. H. Hinde, Symeonis Dunelmensis Opera, Surtees Society 51 (Durham, 1868), pp. 234-54; anon., Encomium Emmae Reginae, ed. A. Campbell, Camden Society, 3rd series 72 (London, 1949), reprinted with a supplementary introduction by S. Keynes, Camden Classic Reprints 4 (Cambridge, 1998); anon., Vita Eadwardi Confessoris, ed. and trans. F. Barlow, The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster, Oxford Medieval Texts, 2nd edition (Oxford 1992).