Places to Study Old Norse, Old English, Ancient Germanic languages?

I have my Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from U of Minnesota. I studied Old Norse (my dissertation was on set phrases in ON). Old / Middle English, Old / MIddle High German, Gothic.

You can look at the database I maintain to see where these languages are taught in North America.

I'd think about MInnesota (Twin Cities), U of Wisconsin, Berkeley, UCLA, U of Washington, Harvard...

At one time, directories of or guides to colleges listed subjects and th institutions that offered them in their indexes. They may still. In addition,if you live near ANY college or university and can get into the library, you can look through a couple of recent volumes of the MLA (Modern Language Association) to see who has published on any of the works you're interested in and where he or she is. You might even get in touch with some of those people to ask for advice on where to go.

In the meantime, I can recommend the University of Maryland at College Park. I took three semesters of Old English there, including one semester in which we read Beowulf in the original and intensively analyzed passages in it. (To give you an idea how thorough those analyses were, I learned in doing mine that the word "ides," meaning woman or lady, is used only twice in all of OE literature, both in Beowulf--once to refer to Hrothgar's queen and one to refer to Grendel's mother.) Then the Germanic and Slavic Languages Department at that time had a member who offered a semester of a different Germanic language each year. One of those was Old Norse. Although he may be retired by now, the department may still continue the practice. I also had two semesters of Middle High German there, with a different professor (now definitely retired), who in another class walked us through a poem in Old High German. I think it's worth inquiring whether that department offers anything comparable now.

Another university to look into, which offers (or once did) classes in some esoteric languages and has a PhD program in linguistics, is Georgetown.

As for Gothic, you probably already know that only one document (at least of any length) in it exists, Wulfila's fourth century translation of the Bible (surely only part of it!). I've seen an introductory Gothic textbook, so I know that at least one exists.

If you can't find a linguistics program that lets you focus on early Germanic languages, you might consider Comparative Literature or an interdisciplinary program that will let you fit together your own course of study.

Good luck!

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