Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers
Further Reading
General Texts
| Brink, S. & Price, N. (eds) | “The Viking World”, Routledge, 2008 |
| Davies, W. (ed) | “From the Vikings to the Normans”, OUP, 2003 |
| Eriksen, M. H. (ed) | “Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement”, Oxbow Books, 2015 |
| Hall, R. | “Exploring the World of the Vikings”, Thames and Hudson, 2007 |
| Haywood, J. | “Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age”, Thames and Hudson, 2000 |
| Hillerdal, C. & Ilves, K., (eds) | “Re-imagining Periphery: Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods”, Oxbow Books, 2020 |
| Jesch, J. | “Viking Diaspora”, Routledge, 2015 |
| Price, N. | “Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings”, Basic Books, New York , 2020 |
| Richards, J. | “Blood of the Vikings”, Hodder and Stoughton, 2001 |
| Sawyer, P. | “The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings”, Oxford University Press, 1997 |
| Sindbæk, M. & Trakadas, A. | “The World in the Viking Age”, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, 2014 |
| Somerville, A. A. & McDonald, R. A. (eds) | “The Viking Age: A Reader”, University of Toronto Press, 2014 |
Scandinavia in the pre-Viking period
| Hedeager, L. | “Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000”, Routledge, 2011 |
| Jesch, J. | “The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century”, Boydell and Brewer, 2012 |
| Lamm, J. P. & Nordström, H. Å. | “Vendel Period Studies” Transactions of the Boat-grave symposium in Stockholm, February 2-3, 1981, Statens Historika Museum, Stockholm, 1983 |
| Lodoen,T. & Mandt, G. | “The Rock Art of Norway”, Windgather Press, 2010 |
| Shippey, T. | “Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings”, Arc Humanities Press, 2022 |
| Wilson, D. M. | “The Vikings and their Origins”, Thames and Hudson, 1980 |
Viking society and the beginnings of expansion
| Åhfeldt, L. A. et al, (eds) | “Relations and Runes – The Baltic Islands and Their Interactions During the Late Iron Age and Early Middle Ages”, Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet), 2020 |
| Bately, J. & Englert, A. | “Ohthere’s Voyages”, Maritime Culture of the North vol. 1, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, 2007 |
| Crumlin-Pedersen, O. & Olsen, O. | “The Skuldelev Ships I”, Ships and Boats of the North vol. 4.1, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, 2002 |
| Englert, A. & Trakadas, A. | “Wulfstan’s Voyage”, Maritime Culture of the North vol. 2, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, 2009 |
| Findell, F. | “Runes”, British Museum Press, 2014 |
| Glørstad, Z. T. & Loftsgarden, K. | “Viking-Age Transformations: Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia”, Routledge, 2017 |
| Jesch, J. | “The Viking Diaspora”, Routledge 2015 |
| Lõgas, L. & Luik, H. (eds) | “The Salme Ship Burials”, Tallinn University, 2023 |
| Randsborg, K. | “The Viking Age in Denmark”, Duckworth, 1980 |
| Sanmark, A. | “Viking Law and Order: Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North” Edinburgh University Press, 2019 |
| Sindbæk, S. M. (ed) | “Northern Emporium: Vol. 1 The Making of Viking-age Ribe”, Aarhus University Press, 2022 |
| Williams, G. | “The Viking Ship”, British Museum Press, 2014 |
The Vikings in Europe – the early raids
| Carver, M. | “Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts”, Edinburgh University Press, 2008 |
| Larsen, A. C. | “The Vikings in Ireland”, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001 |
| Wallace, P. E. | “Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay Excavations”, Irish Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay Excavations, 2016 |
| Williams, G. | “Weapons of the Viking Warriors”, Osprey Publishing, 2019 |
The Vikings in Europe – conquest and settlement
| Christys, A. | “Vikings in the South: Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean”, Bloomsbury, 2015 |
| Graham-Campbell, J., Hall, R., Jesch, J. & Parsons, D. N. (eds) | “Vikings and the Danelaw”, Select Papers from the Proceedings of th Thirteenth Viking Congress, Nottingham and York, 21-30 August 1977″ Oxbow Books, 2001 |
| Griffiths, D. | “Vikings of the Irish Sea”, The History Press, 2010 |
| Hadley, D. M. & ten Harkel, L. (eds) | “Viking Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100”, Oxbow Books, 2013 |
| Hadley, D. M. & Richards, J. D. | “The Viking Great Army and the Making of England”, Thames and Hudson, 2021 |
| Hall, R. | “Viking Age York”, B: T: Batsford Ltd, 1994 |
| Harding, S. E., Griffiths, D, & Royles, E. (eds) | “In Search of the Vikings: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England”, CRC Press, 2015 |
| Hines, J., Lane, A. & Redknap, M. (eds) | “Land, Sea and Home: Settlement in the Viking Period”, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 20, Maney, 2004 |
| Lavelle, R. & Roffey, S. | “Danes in Wessex: the Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c.800-1100”, Oxbow Books, 2016 |
| Richards, J. D. | “Viking Age England”, The History Press, 2012 |
| Williams, G. (ed) | “A Riverine Site Near York: A Possible Viking Camp?”, British Museum Research Publication 224, 2020 |
| Wilson, D. M. | “The Vikings in the Isle of Man”, Aarhus University Press, 2008 |
Settlement of the Faeroes, Orkney, Shetland and Iceland
| Byock, J. | “Viking Age Iceland”, Penguin Books, 2001 |
| Crawford, B. E. | “Scandinavian Scotland”, Leicester University Press, 1987 |
| Fitzhugh, W. W. & Ward, E. I. | “Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga”, Smithsonian Books, 2000 |
| Graham-Campbell, J. & Batey, C. E. | “Vikings in Scotland: an Archaeological Survey”, University of Glasgow , 1992 |
| Horne, T. et al (eds) | “The Viking Age in Scotland”, Edinburgh University Press , 2023 |
| Morris, C. D. & Rackham, D. J. | “Norse and Later Settlement and Subsistance in the North Atlantic”, Edinburgh University Press, 1998 |
| Sverrisdóttir, B., (ed) | “Reykjavík 871±²: Landnámssyningin The Settlement Exhibition”, Reykjavík City Museum, nd. |
Trade routes to the east and south
| Blöndal, S. | “The Varangians in Byzantium”, Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| Griffiths, D. | “Vikings of the Irish Sea”, The History Press, 2010 |
| Jarman, C. | “River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandanavia to the Silk Road”, William Collins, 2021 |
| Lund, P. and Stone, C. | “Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness”, Penguin Books, 2012 |
| Mägi, M. | “The Viking Eastern Baltic”, Amsterdam University Press, 2019 |
| Vedeler, M. | “Silk for the Vikings”, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series vol 15, 2014 |
Greenland and Vinland – the Viking expansion westwards
| Fitzhugh, W. W. & Ward, E. I. | “Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga”, Smithsonian Books, 2000 |
| Wahlgren, E. | “The Vikings and America”, Thames and Hudson, 1986 |
Pagan religions and the change to Christianity
| Gardela, L., | “Women and Weapons in the Viking World”, Oxbow Books, 2021 |
| Gardela, L., et al | “The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World”, Oxbow Books, 2023 |
| Hallgrísdóttir. M, et al | “Bláædda Konan – Ný Rannsokn á Fornu Komli – Bundled-up in Blue – the Re-investigation of a Viking Grave” (text in Icelandic and English), Rit Þjóðminjasfns ïslands 38, 2015 |
| Holst, S., Jørgensen & Wamers, E. (eds) | “Odin, Thor und Freyja: Skandinavische Kultplätze des 1. Jahrtausends n. Chr. und das Frenkenreich / Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millenium AD and the Frankish Realm” (text in German and English), Schnell Steiner, 20127 |
| Lindow, J. | “Old Norse Mythology”, Oxford University Press, 2021 |
| Page, R. I. | “Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths”, British Museum Press, 2002 |
| Page, R. I. | “Norse Myths”, British Museum Press, 1992 |
| Pedersen, A. | “Dead Warriors in Living Memory: aA Study of Weapon and Equestrian Burials in Viking-Age Denmark, AD 800 – 1000”, Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology and History Vol. 20: 1 & 2, Copenhagen 2014 |
| Price, N. | “The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia”, Oxbow Books, 2019 |
| Rohan, M. S. & Scott, A. J. | “Hammer and the Cross (The Conversion of the Vikings)”, Alder Publishing, 1980 |
| Winroth, A. | “The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe”, Yale University Press, 2015 |
Art and literature
| Bailey, R. N. | “Viking Age Sculpture”, Collins Archaeology, 1980 |
| Byock, J. | “Viking Language 1”, Jules William Press, 2013 |
| Byock, J, & Gordon, R. | “Old Norse – Old Icelandic: Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas”, Jules William Press, 2021 |
| Egeler, M. | “A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland”, (Facsimile of the original 1899 edition by Collingwood, W.G. & Stefán, J.), Viking Society for Northern Research, 2015 |
| Graham-Campbell, J. | “Viking Art”, Thames and Hudson World of Art, 2013 |
| Kermode, P. M. CX., & Wilson, D. M. | “Manx Crosses”, The Pinkfoot Press, 1994 |
The end of the Viking era
| Bartlett, W. B. | “King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016”, Amberley, 2016 |
| Davies, W. | From the Vikings to the Normans, OUP, 2003 |
| Marsden, J. | “Harald Hardrada: The Warrior’s Way”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2007 |