![]() | A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.00 the ultimate detailed tome on every little thing you might want to know about the Vikings (make sure you are committed when you start reading this one)
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![]() | The Vikings: Revised Edition by Else Roesdahl
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.78 a good layman's introduction to the over all world of the Vikings; more culteral material than warfare here
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![]() | Vikings : The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
Buy new: $16.44 / Used from: $6.84 great illustrations, photos and maps; nicely formated and well done book that is a fine introdution to the subject
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![]() | Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen E. Batey
Buy used from: $6.25 another good book for the big picture on the Vikings
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![]() | The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $11.76 a fairly good book, but you can tell that more than 1000 years later, the Brits are still sore at the Vikings
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![]() | The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas) by John Haywood
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.35 great resource, wonderful maps and illustrations
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![]() | Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age by John Haywood
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $2.14 great quick reference book on the Vikings
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![]() | Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.95 a fairly comprehensive guide to the mythology and relegion of the Vikings
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![]() | The Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.46 a reworking and retelling of the Norse Myths in an enjoyable story teller format
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![]() | The Poetic Edda
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $6.00 this is the font of all Viking mythology; loosely speaking, the Poetic Edda is to the Vikings what the Iliad & Odessey are to the ancient Greeks
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![]() | Edda (Everyman's Library) by Snorri Sturluson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.41 a source younger than but related to the Poetic Edda; together, they form the core of all Scadanavian mythology
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![]() | Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $4.43 Viking saga of the conquest of the northern Scottish Islands
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![]() | Saga of the Jomsvikings (Select Bibliographies Reprint)
Buy used from: $208.59 the most exciting of all the many exciting sagas
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![]() | Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $12.00 written by Snorri Sturluson, the author of the Prose Edda (Edda) this is exciting and amusing reading
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![]() | Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX: I. English Text; II. Commentary (Bks.1-9) by Saxo Grammaticus
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $32.94 great stories of the Danish dynasties
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![]() | The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $1.49 the saga of the Viking discovery of the New World
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![]() | Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $1.28 saga of a killer poet
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![]() | King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Penguin Classics) by Snorri Sturluson
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 saga of one of the most fascinating of the kings of Norway
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![]() | The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales
Buy used from: $465.50 this is the most complete collection of Icelandic sagas available in English
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![]() | The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Buy used from: $1.38 a great modern novel in the spirit of the old sagas; it traces its hero from his first Viking voyage as a teen all through his adult years, from Moorish Spain to Russia; highly recommended
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![]() | The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams) by William Vollmann
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.92 a post-modern historical novel of the Vikings and the Vinland saga; not an easy read, and not to all tastes, but I think it is worth the effort
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![]() | The King of Vinland's Saga by Stuart W. Mirsky
Buy new: $18.26 / Used from: $12.48 fun historical novel of Leif Ericsson
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![]() | The Eye of Odin by James Richard Larson
Buy new: $22.18 / Used from: $18.00 enjoyable historical novel of my ancestor, Thorvald Asvaldsson
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![]() | Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Buy used from: $0.01 fantastic novel of an Arab poet joining a band of Vikings to fight fierce canibals; the basis of the movie The 13th Warrior
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![]() | The 13th Warrior
Buy used from: $1.84 a gritty, well acted Viking movie that is just begging for a director's cut so it can become an epic viking film
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