Vikings & Anglo-Saxons!
We are a hardy race, being independent booksellers, so of course we are interested in those Norse entrepreneurs who made Europe a lively place in the so-called Dark Ages.
One of the standard-setting writers about medieval Scandinavia was Nobel Prize-winning Sigrid Undset. I have assembled all her works that we carry on this page, even though they technically do not involve Viking culture and history (a few are even contemporary to Undset’s own time). Other than that, she needs no defense as one of the greatest of historical novelists.
Many books have emerged on the conflicts, the tensions, and the meldings between the Vikings and the inhabitants of what would become the British isles, so I have expanded the topic to include the Picts, the Druids, and Anglo-Saxons.
VIking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader
VIking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader
Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader immerses the learner in the sagas, legends, runes, and myths of Vikings and Icelanders. Readings from Icelandic sagas, Viking Age runic inscriptions, and eddas take the student into the world of old Norse heroes, gods, and goddesses. Chapters on The Creation of the World and Ragnarok, the battle at the world’s end, where the gods meet their doom. Readings and maps about Viking Age Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. Other chapters tackle eddic and skaldic verse with ancient stories from Old Scandinavia. Learn how to read runes and runic inscriptions. Where lessons contain exercises, answers given. Viking Language 1 and 2 are designed as workbooks. Students learn quickly and interactively.