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Old Norse Books
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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,257 ratings — published 1220
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,917 ratings — published 1270
Egil's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,399 ratings — published 1240
The Saga of the Volsungs (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,132 ratings — published 1000
Njal's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,644 ratings — published 1270
The Sagas of Icelanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,294 ratings — published 1997
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,204 ratings — published 1977
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.61 — 76 ratings — published 1910
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.10 — 348,323 ratings — published 2017
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings (Dover Literature: Biographical)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,430 ratings — published 1230
Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.73 — 30 ratings — published 2015
Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas (Viking Language Old Norse Icelandic Series)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.58 — 125 ratings — published 2013
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.91 — 755 ratings — published 1978
Eyrbyggja Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.91 — 554 ratings — published 1250
King Harald's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,246 ratings — published 1230
A New Introduction to Old Norse: Part II Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published 2001
A New Introduction to Old Norse, Part I: Grammar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.16 — 45 ratings — published 1999
Laxdæla Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,433 ratings — published 1245
GORDON:INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE 2E PAPER COVERS (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.14 — 128 ratings — published 1927
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.18 — 3,523 ratings — published 1983
The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,118 ratings — published 2009
Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,403 ratings — published 2001
A New Introduction To Old Norse: Part III Glossary and Index of Names (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2001
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,051 ratings — published 1958
The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,526 ratings — published 2016
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,174 ratings — published 1964
The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,853 ratings — published 1200
The Saga of the People of Laxardal / Bolli Bollason's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.91 — 396 ratings — published 2008
Sagas of Warrior-Poets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.10 — 88 ratings — published 2002
From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.97 — 214 ratings — published 2007
Sága o Völsunzích a jiné ságy o severském dávnověku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 1400
Staroislandské povídky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1999
Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum: A Twelfth Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 1995
The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.45 — 256 ratings — published 1943
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.16 — 37 ratings — published 2004
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 4.10 — 71 ratings — published 2010
Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,238 ratings — published 1220
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as old-norse)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,486 ratings — published 1965
The Vikings in England: The evidence of runic inscriptions (ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
Revisiting the Poetic Edda (Routledge Medieval Casebooks)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2012
Přízrační příbuzní: Pozdní staroislandské ságy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2024
The Schemers & Viga-Glum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Havamal: Glossary and Index (Viking Society for Northern Research Text)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 1987
Í leit að konungi (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Altnordische Literaturgeschichte. Band II. Ubergang Und Vorbereitung (1100-1150)...
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Viking Revaluations: Viking Society Centenary Symposium 14-15 May 1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1993
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Die Lieder der Edda / hrsg. von B. Sijmons und H. Gering. Volume Bd.1 1931 [Leather Bound] (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Thor the Wind-raiser and the Eyrarland Image (Viking Society for Northern Research Text): v. 15 (Viking Society for Northern Research Text S.)
by (shelved 1 time as old-norse)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2001
“The Old English word is wyrd, which most glossaries and dictionaries translate as ‘fate’. Tolkien knew that the etymologies of the two words were quite different, ‘fate’ coming from the Latin fari, ‘to speak’, so ‘that which has been spoken’, sc. by the gods. The Old English word derives from weorÞan, ‘to become’: it means ‘what has become, what’s over’, so among other things, ‘history’ – a historian is a wyrdwritere, a writer-down of wyrd.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
― J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Whether used for the self or in service to others, the runes
continually
reflect the collective in the individual, the unknown in
the known, and the personal embodiment of the unknowable in All
Things—the aspect of mystery in Nature that we also embody.”
― Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick
continually
reflect the collective in the individual, the unknown in
the known, and the personal embodiment of the unknowable in All
Things—the aspect of mystery in Nature that we also embody.”
― Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick
