Friday, March 7, 2014

Sources


This is going to be the messiest post I make, but it's where I'm putting all the sources I'm using.  Sorry it's not going to be the best bibiography, but I forget how to MLA all that shit and I'd rather spend time reading about Vikings than figuring out how.  <3

Alcuin's Letter to Aethelred
http://historyonline.chadwyck.co.uk/getImage?productsuffix=_studyunits&action=printview&in=gif&out=pdf&src=/ehd/ehd00189/conv/ehd00189.pdf&IE=.pdf

Information on Sunstone Find
http://www.utaot.com/2013/03/06/scientists-think-they-have-found-the-mythical-sunstone-vikings-used-to-navigate-warships/

Kormakksaga
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/265/265-h/265-h.htm#link2HCH0010

Gísla saga Súrssonar'
http://sagadb.org/gisla_saga_surssonar.en

Ynglingsaga
http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/ynglinga.html

Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1150/1150-h/1150-h.htm

Ragnar's Saga (Translation by Chris Van Dyke)
http://www.turbidwater.com/portfolio/downloads/RagnarsSaga.pdf

Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Part 2)
http://omacl.org/Anglo/part2.html

Interesting take on Shieldmaidens
http://sciencenordic.com/don%E2%80%99t-underestimate-viking-women

Talks about reanalyzing bones
http://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/viking-women-a-reinterpretation-of-the-bones/

A Synopsis of Byzantine History
http://books.google.com/books?id=vGE8Xq832A0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true

Some smart lady I'm in love with and, I find, is a great jump-off point for more info
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/

The Flateyjarbok
https://archive.org/stream/flateyjarbokens00unkngoog#page/n44/mode/2up

The Temple at Uppsala
http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/uppsalatemple.html

Adam of Bremen's account of Sacrifice
http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/mellor/myth/pdf_files/AdamBremen.pdf

The Heimskringla's Saga of St Olaf
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Heimskringla/Saga_of_Olaf_Haraldson/Part_II

The Great Courses: The Vikings:
A lecture given by Professor Kenneth Harl.  Available on Audible and highly recommended.

The Vikings by Michael Gibson

The Vikings by Neil Oliver

Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen by Kirsten Wolf (heeeey, we share a name!)

The Norse Myths retold by Kevin Crossley Holland

The Oxford Illustrated History of The Vikings by Peter Sawyer

The Viking Saga by Peter Brent

The show Vikings on the History Channel

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