World Literature

Unit VIII: The Middle Ages

Week 19
Please read:

Time Line, 680-681
Introduction: The Middle Ages, 682-691
Introduction: The Song of Roland, 692-693

• from the Song of Roland, 694-702

Seeing Connections: Poem of the Cid: Spain's National Epic, 703
      (Those who would like to look at the whole of the Poem of the Cid may find the whole thing linked here.
Introduction: Snorri Sturluson, 704-705

• "Thor and Loki in Giantland" from the Prose Edda, 706-713

Behind the Scenes: Norse Mythology and Modern Fantasy Writers, 714

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