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MA Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies

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    MA 1 year full-time, 2-3 years part-time

Course Description

From Old Norse to runology, name-studies to Icelandic literature, this unique course is ideal if you’re planning a career in the heritage industry or considering PhD research.

You will reveal invaluable information about how people in the early medieval period lived, thought and spoke, through:

  • studying early medieval poetry and prose in Old English and Old Norse
  • learning how to read runic inscriptions, and work with other historical sources
  • learning how to analyse place-names

Your teaching is informed by the work of our Institute for Name-Studies and Centre for the Study of the Viking Age research groups. For example, you can work with museum artefacts and reproductions produced as part of our ‘Bringing the Vikings back to the East Midlands’ project, in partnership with local museums.

You are also welcome to attend our Norse and Viking Seminars (NoViS), the biennial Fell-Benedikz lecture, and the biennial Cameron Lecture, and learn from our academics, postgraduate research students and guest speakers.

Entry Requirements

2.1 (Upper 2nd class honours undergraduate degree or international equivalent) in English language/literature, history or archaeology.

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Student Destinations

Graduates from the School of English move into a wide range of areas due to their transferable skills. This includes working in:

  • The education sector – including both teaching and working in Higher Education
  • Communications based roles in marketing/PR/journalism
  • Business and finance
  • The charity sector
  • Local/national government
  • Law conversion
  • PhD level study

Module Details

Core Modules

  • Reading Old English
  • Reading Old Norse
  • Research Methods in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies
  • Dissertation

Option Modules

  • Conflict and Cohesion: Religion and Cultural Change
  • Contextualising Old English
  • Contextualising Old Norse
  • Place-Names in Context: Language, landscape and history
  • Reading Runes

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