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Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies at Aberdeen is an exciting new programme, building on a strong track record of Celtic teaching to offer a fascinating, flexible and interdisciplinary study of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples. You will cross traditional boundaries of literature, history and culture, and develop skills which open wide career options across the arts, media and more.

First and Second Year:
Songs, Myths and Hero-Tales of the Old North; Barbarians, Romans, Gods and Warriors; Arthur in Medieval Celtic and Scandinavian Literature; Vikings in Celtic and Germanic Scotland; Love, Loss and Revival: Gaelic Ireland, 1700 to the Present; The Celts, their Neighbours, and the Classical World; Modern Irish Language 1 and 2; Latin Language and Literature 1.

Third and Fourth Year (Honours):
You will write a dissertation and undertake a substantial research project on a subject of your choice.
Courses offered include: Old Gaelic; Medieval Welsh; Old English language; Tales of Vengeance and Enchantment: The Heroic Age in Irish and Icelandic Saga Literature; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship and the Exercise of Authority in the Earlier Middle Ages; Dangerous Liaisons: Love, Sex and Romance in the Celtic West and the Old North; Celtic Myth in the Modern World: From Ossian
to the New Age; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Entry Requirements

2027 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at BBBB plus English at National 5.

For second year entry you would require 2 Advanced Highers at AB.

Widening access entry:
3 Highers at BBC plus English at National 5.

1 Foundation Apprenticeship is accepted in place of a Higher.