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Time:
MWF 1200-1250
Room:
SRH 107
Instructor:
Kimpton
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ENG 440-540 Introduction to Old Irish

This course will provide an introduction to the language of eighth- and ninth-century Ireland. Exercises in grammar will be supplemented with readings in selected short texts. The course will be of special interest to students of linguistics, Indo-European, mythology, and medieval literature, religion, and history.

Textbooks:

Old-Irish Workbook, by Quin Old-Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Glosses, by Strachan A Grammar of Old Irish, by Thurneysen Stories from the Táin, by Strachan and Bergin