Content

Lesson 1 - English language, its place among Indo-European languages

Lesson 2 - Germanic languages, their description and classification

Lesson 3 - North Germanic, Runes

Lesson 4 - Old North, Viking Age, Iceland and Icelandic literature

Lesson 5 - Eddas, Þrymskviða

Lesson 6 - West Germanic, Consonant shift in Proto-Germanic

Lesson 7 - Old English. Historical Background

Lesson 8 - Old English Written Records, Cædmon's Hymn

Lesson 9 - The Beowulf poem

Lesson 10 - Anglo-Saxon England, Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Lesson 11 - Norman Conquest, Linguistic Situation, Geoffrey Chauser

Lesson 12 - The Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, The Miller's Tale

Lesson 13 - After Chaucer, Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur

Lesson 14 - Alliterative Revival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Lesson 15 - The beginning of Drama

Lesson 16 - English Drama

Lesson 17 - Christopher Marlow - Dr Faustus

Lesson 18 - William Shakespeare