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Are heroes always a good thing? Medieval Gaelic legendary narrative offers no simple answers. Its rich and hugely entertaining body of heroic sagas dramatizes the feuds, loves and fatal flaws of great men and women of medieval Ireland and Scotland, to reflect on urgent questions about royal and aristocratic conduct. Storylines studied will include cattle-raids, fights with saints, beheading competitions, family breakdowns, love-triangles, and people uprooting trees for no apparent reason.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Session | Second Sub Session | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Are heroes always a good thing? Medieval Gaelic legendary narrative offers no simple answers. Its rich and hugely entertaining body of heroic sagas dramatizes the feuds, loves and fatal flaws of great men and women of medieval Ireland and Scotland, to reflect on urgent questions about royal and aristocratic conduct. In so doing they invited audiences to reflect on their own place in history, and on urgent contemporary questions about royal and aristocratic conduct. Storylines studied will include cattle-raids, fights with saints, beheading competitions, family breakdowns, love-triangles, and people uprooting trees for no apparent reason. Subsidiary topics explored will include the place of Gaelic heroic narrative in the early medieval North Atlantic Gaelic diaspora, the transformation and transmission of sagas over time (including in Scottish manuscript anthologies), and the blend of history and imagination at work in these narratives. Texts will be studied in English translation and there will be numerous content warnings.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback - Orally if requested, as per current SLLMVC practice. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Understanding and negotiating the different levels on which a complex text may be understood and interpreted. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding complex literary works in their historical, cultural and ethical contexts. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to compare literary forms within a variety of narrative frameworks. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 37 | Feedback Weeks | 40 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be given as well as the opportunity for one-to-one discussion of that feedback. |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Understanding and negotiating the different levels on which a complex text may be understood and interpreted. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding complex literary works in their historical, cultural and ethical contexts. |
| Procedural | Apply | To plan and execute critical essays displaying a clear command of this material. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to compare literary forms within a variety of narrative frameworks. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 32 | Feedback Weeks | 35 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be given in time to inform work on the final essay. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Understanding and negotiating the different levels on which a complex text may be understood and interpreted. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding complex literary works in their historical, cultural and ethical contexts. |
| Procedural | Apply | To plan and execute critical essays displaying a clear command of this material. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to compare literary forms within a variety of narrative frameworks. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
To be submitted and marked online |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Understanding complex literary works in their historical, cultural and ethical contexts. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Understanding and negotiating the different levels on which a complex text may be understood and interpreted. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to compare literary forms within a variety of narrative frameworks. |
| Procedural | Apply | To plan and execute critical essays displaying a clear command of this material. |
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