Norse

Sacred texts from the Norse tradition, including the Poetic Edda and selections from the Prose Edda.

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  • Egil’s Saga — W.C. Green — Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar, the saga of the great Viking warrior-poet Egil Skallagrimsson, translated by W.C. Green.
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm — Grimm's Fairy Tales — the complete 42-tale selection from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Household Tales: Hansel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap, Snow-White, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella-variants, and the full range of the German folk narrative tradition.
  • Heimskringla — Snorri Sturluson — Heimskringla — Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century history of the Norse kings, translated by Samuel Laing (1844): from the mythological Ynglinga Saga through the reigns of Harald Fairhair, Olaf Tryggvason, Saint Olaf, and Harald Hardrada to the Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066).
  • Introduction to Norse Religion — A critical introduction to Norse religion — the pre-Christian faith of Scandinavia, preserved almost entirely by the Christians who replaced it, and the most complete mythology of any Germanic-speaking people.
  • Old Norse Poems — Lee M. Hollander — A collection of Old Norse heroic and legendary poems from outside the Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander.
  • Popular Tales from the Norse — George Webbe Dasent — Popular Tales from the Norse — George Webbe Dasent's 1888 collection of Norwegian folk tales: East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, Why the Sea Is Salt, Boots and the Troll, Soria Moria Castle, and 55 other stories collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe from Norwegian oral tradition.
  • Teutonic Myth and Legend — Donald Mackenzie — Teutonic Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie (1912) — a comprehensive study of Germanic and Norse mythology, tracing the Teutonic pantheon from Odin and Thor through the Nibelungs, the Volsungs, heroic legend, and folk tradition.
  • The Children of Odin — Padraic Colum — A retelling of the Norse myths and the Volsung legend for young readers, with illustrations by Willy Pogany.
  • The Danish History — Saxo Grammaticus — The Danish History (Gesta Danorum) by Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1200) — the foundational chronicle of Denmark, blending heroic myth, Viking legend, and early Danish history across sixteen books, including the Hamlet story (Amleth) and the legends of Hadding, Starkad, and Frothi.
  • The Laxdaela Saga — Muriel Press — Laxdæla Saga, the great Icelandic saga of love, jealousy, and fate in the Breidafjord district, translated by Muriel Press.
  • The Life and Death of Cormac the Skalda — Collingwood and Stefánsson — Kormáks Saga, the saga of the great love-poet of Iceland, whose devotion to Steingerd brought him glory and ruin, translated by Collingwood and Stefánsson.
  • The Norse Discovery of America — Reeves, Beamish, and Anderson — A comprehensive collection of the original Norse sagas and documents relating to the Viking voyages to Vinland and the North American coast.
  • The Orkneyingers' Saga — George W. Dasent — The Norse history of the Earls of Orkney — including the martyrdom of Saint Magnus and the crusade of Earl Rognvald. Translated by George W. Dasent, Rolls Series, 1894.
  • The Poetic Edda — Henry Adams Bellows — The Elder Edda, the great collection of Old Norse mythological and heroic poems, translated from the Icelandic with introduction and notes by Henry Adams Bellows.
  • The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson — The Younger Edda of Snorri Sturluson, the great medieval handbook of Norse mythology and poetics, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur.
  • The Story of Burnt Njal — George Webbe Dasent — Njáls Saga, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, a vast epic of law, blood-feud, and the coming of Christianity to Iceland, translated by George Webbe Dasent.
  • The Story of Gisli the Outlaw — George Webbe Dasent — Gísla Saga Súrssonar, the tragic saga of a noble outlaw destroyed by cycles of blood-revenge, translated by George Webbe Dasent.
  • The Story of Grettir the Strong — Magnússon and Morris — Grettis Saga, the saga of Iceland’s most famous outlaw, a man of immense strength cursed by darkness, translated by Magnússon and Morris.
  • The Story of the Volsungs — William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon — The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, the foundational Old Norse mythological saga of Sigurd the dragon-slayer and the Volsung dynasty, translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon.
  • The Story of Viga-Glum — Sir Edmund Head — Víga-Glúrms Saga, the saga of the cunning chieftain of Thverá, who defended his patrimony through guile and ambiguity, translated by Sir Edmund Head.
  • Völsunga saga — The saga of the Völsung dynasty — Sigmund, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, the Niflungs, and their doom. The great Old Norse prose narrative that underlies the Eddic heroic lays. Good Works Translation from Old Norse.

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