Saga and Viking reviews

Sagas

• Authun and the bear
• Bolli Bollason’s Tale
• The Saga of the Confederates
• Egil’s Saga
• The Saga of Eirik the Red
• Eyrbyggja Saga 1
• Eyrbyggja Saga 2
• Gisli Surrsson’s Saga
• The Saga of the Greenlanders
• The Saga of Grettir the Strong
• The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
• King Harald’s Saga
• The Saga of Hen-Thorir
• The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi
• The Saga of the Jomsvikings
• Laxdaela Saga
• Njal’s Saga
• Njal’s Saga 1
• Njal’s Saga 2
• The Saga of Ref the Sly
• Thidrandi whom the goddesses slew
• Thorstein Staff-Struck
• The Vatnsdaela Saga
• The Vapnfjord Men
• The Saga of the Volsungs

• On reading the sagas

The Eddas

• The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson (13th century)
• The Poetic Edda
• The Poetic Edda – the heroic poems
• The Poetic Edda – the mythological poems

Tolkien

• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún translated by J.R.R. Tolkien

Modern histories

• Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green (1960)
• Cnut: England’s Viking King by M.K. Lawson (1993)
• Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O’Brien (2005)
• The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson (2009)

Tourism

• Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice (1936)

Exhibition

• Vikings: Life and Legend @ the British Museum (2014)
• Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War @ the British Library (December 2018)

Posted by Simon on February 1, 2023

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