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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 (amzn.to/3wNwfYy)
The Poetic Edda (amzn.to/3Nuhhxx)
Völsunga saga (amzn.to/3wIefQs. @JacksonCrawford also has a translation of Völsunga saga alongside Ragnars saga loðbrókar here: amzn.to/39LHPvx. I haven't read this translation, but I'm sure it's great!)
Hrólfs saga kraka (amzn.to/3sSUrrm)
Gísla saga Súrssonar (amzn.to/3PDQQHx)
Egils saga (amzn.to/3PDQQHx)
Grettis saga (amzn.to/3sVrf33)
Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds (amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Kormáks saga (amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa (amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Víglundar saga (amzn.to/38dnCOV)
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla (amzn.to/3wHI0Bh)
Beowulf (amzn.to/3LIhCvl)
Havelok the Dane (The other Romances in this volume are also pretty interesting - King Horn is a personal favorite!: amzn.to/3PGtlh9. Online for free at: d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/tex...)
Scholarship:
Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (amzn.to/3PDFrr4)
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World (amzn.to/3LIiKPB)
Tom Shippey, Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (amzn.to/3lEGCZK)
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (amzn.to/3NuWsSz)
Christopher Abram, Myths of the Pagan North (amzn.to/3x55QpB)
Jesse Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga (amzn.to/3sTZ2d0)
Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland (amzn.to/3lB9rpQ)
William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (amzn.to/3lzIRgZ)
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