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Beyond Scandinavia: the Impact of Viking Culture in the Medieval World BEYOND SCANDINAVIA: THE IMPACT OF VIKING CULTURE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD Select Bibliography Adam of Bremen. History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen. F. J. Tschan, ed. and trans., and T. Reuter. New York: Columbia U.P., 2002. Anon. The Sagas of the Icelanders. J. Smiley, ed. London/New York/Toronto: Penguin, 2001. Bately, J., and A. Englers, eds. Ohthere’s Voyages. Maritime Culture of the North I. Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum, 2007. Brink, S., ed., The Viking World. London: Routledge, 2008. Brown, N. M. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007. Cross, S. H., and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetsor, trans. and ed. The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Boston: Medieval Academy of America, 1954. Campbell, A., trans. and ed., and S. Keynes. Encomium Emmae Reginae. Camden Classic Reprints. Cambridge, U.K.: Royal Historical Society, 1998. Davidson, H. E., ed., and Peter Fisher, trans. Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I – IX. Woodbridge, U.K.: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Downham, Clare. Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: the Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014. Edinburgh: Dunedin, 2007. Dudo of St. Quentin. History of the Normans. trans. E. Christiansen. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 1998. Franklin, S. Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950 – 1300. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge U.P., 2002. Graham-Campbell, J. The Viking World. Fourth ed. London: Frances Lincoln, 2013. Graham-Campbell, J., and D. Kidd. The Vikings. London: British Museum, 1980. Haywood, J. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings. London: Penguin Books/Viking, 1995. Helle, K., ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval Scandinavia I: Prehistory to 1520. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge U.P., 2003. Hollander, L. M., trans. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson. Austin, TX: Univeristy of Texas, 1991. Ibn Fadlan, Ahmed. Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North. P. Lunde and C. Stone, trans. London/New York/Toronto: Penguin, 2012. Jones, G. A History of the Vikings, rev. ed. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Jesch, J. Women in the Viking Age. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer, 1991. Jesch, J. The Viking Diaspora. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2015. Jochens, J. Women in Old Norse Society. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. Klindt-Jensen, O., and D. M. Wilson. Viking Art, second edition. The Nordic Series 6. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Kolodny, A. In Search of First Contact: the Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Orchard, A., trans. The Elder Edda: a Book of Viking Lore. London: Penguin, 2011. Page, R. I. Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials, and Myths. London: British Museum Publications, 1995. Pulsiano, P., K. Wolf, et al., ed. Medieval Scandinavia: an Encyclopedia. Garland Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages 1. New York and London: Garland, 1993. Sawyer, P., ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Seaver, Kirsten A. The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. 1000 – 1500. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Sturluson, S. Edda. J. Byock, trans. London: Penguin, 2005. Whitelock, D., ed. English Historical Documents I, c. 500 – 1042. Second edition. London: Routledge, 1979. Williams, G. The Viking Ship. London: British Museum, 2014. Winroth, A. The Age of the Vikings. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. ROM U workshop: “Beyond Scandinavia” 2 Select online resources for studying the Viking Age and Viking Medievalism. General • Past Publications of The Viking Society for Northern Research [http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/]: copies of works published by the leading learned society in the field of medieval Scandinavian and Northern Studies between 1895 and 2009 are downloadable from this page (in PDF format). Recent publications from the Society are available from this page: http://www.vsnr.org/publications/. • Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies (open access) [http://www.futhark-journal.com/]. British Isles • “The Battle of Clontarf”: [https://dh.tcd.ie/clontarf/]. Website commemorating the millennial anniversary of the battle (maintained by Trinity College, Dublin). • Orkneyjar [http://www.orkneyjar.com/index.html]. Orkney heritage site. • York Archaeological Trust [http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/], including access to the Jorvik Viking Centre [http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/] and the York Archaeological Trust Picture Library [http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/piclib/photos.php]. • Vale of York Hoard (P.A.S. Database) [http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/198978]. Canada • L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (Parks Canada) [http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn- nhs/nl/meadows/index.aspx]. • Helluland Archaeology Project (Canadian Museum of History) [http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/archeo/helluland/str0301e.shtml]. Denmark • Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church: [http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=697]. • Ribe Viking Centre [http://ribevikingecenter.dk/en/home.aspx]. • Roskilde Viking Ship Museum [http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en]. • The Skuldelev ships [http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/skuldele.htm]. Iceland • Eriksstadir Museum [http://www.eiriksstadir.is/]. • Icelandic Saga Database [http://sagadb.org/]. • Icelandic Saga Map project [http://sagamap.hi.is/is/]; Emily Lethbridge’s visualizations of the settings for Icelandic sagas. • The National Museum of Iceland [http://www.thjodminjasafn.is/English]. • The Saints in Iceland [http://www.tasc.mpg.de/iceland/]. • The Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) [http://www.viking.ucla.edu/mosfell_project/index.html]: Jesse Byock’s excavations and research in the Mosfell region of Iceland. Norway • Lofotr Viking Museum [http://www.lofotr.no/index.asp]. • Midgard [http://www.midgardsenteret.no/], cultural heritage centre near Borre. • Runic inscriptions from Bryggen in Bergen [http://www.nb.no/baser/runer/eindex.html] • University of Oslo Viking Ship Museum [http://www.khm.uio.no/vikingskipshuset/index_eng.html]. Sweden • Foteviken Museum [http://www.foteviken.se/engelsk/index_e.htm], near Malmø, Sweden. • Scandinavian Runic-texts Database (collection of Viking-age and medieval runic inscriptions, from Uppsala University) [http://www.nordiska.uu.se/forskn/samnord.htm/?languageId=1]. • Swedish National Heritage Board [http://www.raa.se/in-english/], with pages on Birka and Hovgarden, Ottar’s Mound, and the Rök stone. United States • Fiske Icelandic and Old Norse Collection (Cornell University Library): https://rare.library.cornell.edu/collections/icelandic. • Friends of the Viking Ship (Illinois): http://www.vikingship.us/. • The Kensington Runestone Museum (Alexandria, MN): https://www.runestonemuseum.org/. .
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