Saga Thing
by John Sexton and Andy Pfrenger · Saga Thing
Two medievalist professors read through the Icelandic sagas one at a time, walking chapter by chapter through plot, manuscript context and current scholarship, then closing each saga with a mock verdict. Running since 2013.
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Jackson Crawford's Old Norse Channel
Channel by a credentialed Old Norse philologist. Hundreds of short lectures on Old Norse grammar and pronunciation, runes, eddic poems and saga passages, regularly testing popular claims about Norse mythology and Viking history against the manuscript and runic evidence. He explicitly separates attested medieval material from modern neopagan and white-nationalist inventions - the myth-versus-evidence skill.
The Viking Age - National Museum of Denmark
Curator-written articles on Viking-age daily life, food, religion, weapons, ships, runestones and silver hoards, each tied to excavated objects in the museum's collection such as the Jelling monuments, Mammen grave and Trelleborg ring fortresses. One museum portal instead of dozens of Viking blogs.
Viking Society for Northern Research - Free Publications Library
Free PDFs of the Society's scholarly Old Norse editions, English translations, Old Norse textbooks and monographs, plus every issue of the journal Saga-Book back to 1895, each released two years after print publication. A single door to essentially all the free serious Old Norse material, which otherwise has to be assembled site by site.
The Poetic Edda: Expanded Second Edition
Verse translation from Old Norse of the mythological and heroic poems of the Poetic Edda, with introductions and notes. This expanded edition adds Svipdagsmal and four related poems, including Eiriksmal and Krakumal, giving readers direct access to primary Norse myth and legend.
The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Ten sagas and seven shorter tales in the modern scholarly translations made for the Complete Sagas of Icelanders project, including the Vinland sagas on Norse voyages to Greenland and North America, with maps and genealogies.
The Viking Age: A Reader (Third Edition)
Primary-source anthology in fifteen chapters: Frankish and Anglo-Saxon annals, Arabic accounts of the Rus, runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and saga extracts, each with editorial headnotes on date, provenance and reliability.