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Books & Other Resources

SHAMAN

Website

Seidr

Advanced

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Days in Midgard

Book

Fiction

General

Abell, Steven T

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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology

Book

General

Advanced

Andrén, Anders

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The Hávamál: Views and Commentaries

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Travel Hávamál

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Travellers guide to modern heathenry

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Well and the Tree

Book

General

Advanced

Bauschatz, Paul C

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The Lost Gods of England

Book

General

Advanced

Branston, Brian

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The Viking World

Book

General

Intermediate

Brink, Stefan and Price, Neil

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Magic beyond the binary

Essay

General

Advanced

Callaghan, Meghan

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A Brief History of the Vikings

Book

General

Intermediate

Clements, Jonathan

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The Last Kingdom

Book

Fiction

General

Cornwell, Bernard

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The Poetic Edda

Audiobook

General

Intermediate

Crawford, Jackson

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Poetic Edda

Audiobook

Other

Intermediate

Crawford, Jackson

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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

Book

General

Intermediate

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe

Book

General

Advanced

Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis

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Scandinavian Mythology

Book

General

Advanced

Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis

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Nordic Religion in the Viking Age

Book

General

Intermediate

Dubois, Thomas

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The Road to Hel

Pdf

General

Advanced

Ellis, H.R.

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The Hammer and The Cross

Book

General

Intermediate

Ferguson, Robert

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Norse Mythology

Audiobook

General

Beginner

Gaiman, Neil

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Norse Mythology

Audiobook

General

Beginner

Gaiman, Neil

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A Biography of Seiðr-staffs

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Gardela, Leszek

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Out of the Waters Beneath the Tree

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Heath, Catherine

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Hrafnkel's Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Hermann, Palsson

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Orkneyinga Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Hermann, Palsson and Edwards, Paul

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Seiðr & Shamans

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Klein, Sebastian

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God of Vengeance

Book

Fiction

General

Kristian, Giles

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Norse Mythology

Book

General

Intermediate

Lindow, John

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The Image of Seiðr in Old Icelandic Literature

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Lyonel D. Perabo

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The Vikings

Book

General

Intermediate

Magnusson, Magnus

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The Vinland Sagas

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Magnusson, Magnus and Hermann, Palsson

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Njal's Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Magnusson, Magnus and Palsson, Hermann

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Last Places

Book

Fiction

General

Millman, Lawrence

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Vikings

Book

General

Intermediate

Oliver, Neil

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An Introduction to English Runes

Book

Runes

Intermediate

Page, R.I.

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Rudiments of Runelore

Book

Runes

Beginner

Pollington, Stephen

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The Archeology of Seiðr

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Price, Neil

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Beowulf

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Seamus Heaney

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Viking Friendship

Book

General

Advanced

Sigurdsson, Jon Vidar

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Seidhr, A Scholarly Study of the Art

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Sir Sigurd

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Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Stefanie v. Schnurbein

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Edda

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Sturluson, Snorri and Faulkes, Anthony

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Blood Feud

Book

Fiction

General

Sutcliff, Rosemary

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The Icelandic Saga Database

Website

Sagas

General

Thordarson, Sveinbjorn

The largest repository of the Sagas of the Icelanders available in multiple languages in a variety of open formats.

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The Hunting of the Vétt

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Tolley, Clive

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Viking Society for Northern Research

Website

General

General

VSNR

The Viking Society for Northern Research is making virtually all its publications (and some other related items) from inception in 1893 to the present freely available on this website

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Shamanism in Siberia

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Znamenski, Andrei A

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Spirits Through Respiratory Passages

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

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Myths of the Pagan North

Book

General

Advanced

Abram, Christopher

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The Asatrú Book of Blots

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Hávamál: Volume 1

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Travel Völuspá

Book

General

Beginner

Asatru UK

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The Way of Wyrd

Book

Fiction

General

Bates, Brian

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Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Blain, Jenny

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Remnants of Seiðr

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Braucher, Nóel

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Grettir's Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Byock, Jesse

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The Religious Roles in pre-Christian Scandinavia

Essay

Seidr

Advanced

Chvalkovska, Marketa

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The Children of Odin

Audiobook

General

Beginner

Colum, Padraic

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The Gods’ Own County

Book

General

Beginner

Coultas, Dan

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The Saga of the Volsungs

Audiobook

General

Intermediate

Crawford, Jackson

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Eaters of the Dead

Book

Fiction

General

Crichton, Michael

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The Norse Myths

Book

General

Beginner

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

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Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe

Book

General

Advanced

Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis

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The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe

Book

General

Advanced

Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis

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Runes: An Introduction

Book

Runes

Beginner

Elliot, R.W.V.

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Viking Worlds

Book

General

Advanced

Eriksen, MH

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The Ethical World-Conception of the Norse People

Book

General

Advanced

Fors, Andrew Peter

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Norse Mythology

Book

Fiction

Beginner

Gaiman, Neil

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(Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Gardela, Leszek

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The Vikings

Audiobook

General

Beginner

Harl, Kenneth W

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Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Heide, Eldar

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Erbyggja Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Hermann, Palsson and Edwards, Paul

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A History of the Vikings

Book

General

Intermediate

Jones, Gwyn

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Wizards and Words

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Korecká, Lucie

The Old Norse Vocabulary of Magic in a Cultural Context

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Icelandic Saga Map

Website

Sagas

General

Lethbridge, Dr Emily et al.

A resource to guide specialists and non-specialists alike around the geography of the Sagas of Iceland

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The Whale Road

Book

Fiction

General

Low, Robert

Life is savage aboard a Viking raiding ship. When Orm Rurikson is plucked from the snows of Norway to brave the seas on the Fjord Elk, he becomes an unlikely member of the notorious crew.

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Runic Amulets and Magic Objects

Book

Runes

Intermediate

MacLeod, Mindy and Mees, Bernard

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Viking: Hammer of the North

Book

General

Intermediate

Magnusson, Magnus

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Laxdaela Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Magnusson, Magnus and Palsson, Hermann

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Runes, Magic and Religion

Book

Runes

Intermediate

McKinnel, John and Simek, Rudolf and Düwel, Klaus

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Ásatrú for Beginners

Book

General

Beginner

Nordvig, Mathias

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Runes: A Handbook

Book

Runes

Intermediate

P. Barnes, Michael

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The Rune Primer

Book

Runes

Beginner

Plowright, Sweyn

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Nine paces from Hel

Essay

General

Advanced

Price, Neil

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The Viking Way

Book

General

Advanced

Price, Neil

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Viking - Odinn's Child

Book

Fiction

General

Severin, Tim

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Dictionary of Northern Mythology

Book

General

Intermediate

Simek, Rudolf

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Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions

Book

Runes

Intermediate

Spurkland, Terje

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Egil's Saga

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Sturluson, Snorri and Edwards, Paul and Palsson, Hermann

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The Poetic Edda

Book

Sagas

Intermediate

Sturluson, Snorri and Larrington, Carolyne

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Poems of the Elder Edda

Audiobook

General

Intermediate

Terry, Patricia

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Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic

Book

Seidr

Advanced

Tolley, Clive

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Myth and Religion of the North

Book

General

Advanced

Turville-Petre, Edward Oswald Gabriel

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Nutcase

Book

Fiction

General

Williams, Tony

Comic book update of Grettis saga, set on a Council Estate

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