Like The Northman? Read These | Viking Age Book Recommendations

In which I discuss some of the sources of and influences on The Northman and provide a kind of reading list for anyone interested in getting into these medieval traditions. Books discussed from Old Norse-Icelandic, Old English, and Middle English.

0:00 Introduction
2:12 The Poetic Edda
3:53 fornaldarsögur
8:41 Íslendingasögur
17:05 Heimskringla
18:18 Beowulf
20:23 Havelok the Dane
22:26 Academic books

Texts mentioned with my affiliate link to the edition/translation I recommend:
Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum (https://amzn.to/3wNwfYy)
The Poetic Edda (https://amzn.to/3Nuhhxx)
Völsunga saga (https://amzn.to/3wIefQs. ‪@JacksonCrawford‬ also has a translation of Völsunga saga alongside Ragnars saga loðbrókar here: https://amzn.to/39LHPvx. I haven't read this translation, but I'm sure it's great!)
Hrólfs saga kraka (https://amzn.to/3sSUrrm)
Gísla saga Súrssonar (https://amzn.to/3PDQQHx)
Egils saga (https://amzn.to/3PDQQHx)
Grettis saga (https://amzn.to/3sVrf33)
Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds (https://amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (https://amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Kormáks saga (https://amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa (https://amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Víglundar saga (https://amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla (https://amzn.to/3wHI0Bh)
Beowulf (https://amzn.to/3LIhCvl)
Havelok the Dane (The other Romances in this volume are also pretty interesting - King Horn is a personal favorite!: https://amzn.to/3PGtlh9. Online for free at: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/tex...)

Scholarship:
Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (https://amzn.to/3PDFrr4)
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World (https://amzn.to/3LIiKPB)
Tom Shippey, Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (https://amzn.to/3lEGCZK)
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (https://amzn.to/3NuWsSz)
Christopher Abram, Myths of the Pagan North (https://amzn.to/3x55QpB)
Jesse Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga (https://amzn.to/3sTZ2d0)
Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland (https://amzn.to/3lB9rpQ)
William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (https://amzn.to/3lzIRgZ)

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