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Scholarship on Medieval Icelandic Culture

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Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir. Property and Virginity: The Christianization of Marriage in Medieval Iceland, 1200-1600. Aarhus UP, 2010.

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Andrén, Anders. Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives. Nordic Academic Press, 2014.

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Ármann Jakobsson, and Fredrik Heinemann. A Sense of Belonging: Morkinskinna and Icelandic Identity, c.1220. UP of Southern Denmark, 2014.

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Arnold, Martin. The Vikings: Culture and Conquest. Hambledon Continuum, 2007.

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Artelius, Tore, and Svanberg, Fredrik. Dealing with the Dead: Archaeological Perspectives on Prehistoric Scandinavian Burial Ritual. National Heritage Board, 2005.

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Bandlien, Bjørn. Strategies of Passion: Love and Marriage in Medieval Iceland and Norway. Brepols, 2005.

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Bjarni F. Einarsson. The Settlement of Iceland, A Critical Approach: Granastaðir and the Ecological Heritage. Íslenska bókmenntafélag, 1995.

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Brink, Stefan., and Price, Neil S. The Viking World. Routledge, 2012.

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Bryndís Sverrisdóttir. Bláklædda konan: ný rannsókn á fornu kumli = Bundled-up in blue: the re-investigation of a Viking grave. Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, 2015.

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Byock, Jesse L. Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power. U of California P, 1988.

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Byock, Jesse L.. Viking Language. Jules William Press, 2013.

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Carroll, Jayne, et al. The Vikings in Britain and Ireland. British Museum, 2014.

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Carter, Tara. Iceland’s Networked Society: Revealing How the Global Affairs of the Viking Age Created New Forms of Social Complexity. Brill, 2015.

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Clark, David. Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga. 1st ed., Oxford UP, 2012.

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Dubois, Thomas A. Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. UP of Pennsylvania, 1999.

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Durrenberger, E. Paul. The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland: Political Economy & Literature. U of Iowa P, 1992.

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Eriksen, Marianne Hem. Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement. Oxbow Books, 2014.

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Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva. Body and Soul in Old Norse Culture. 2016.

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Evans, Gareth Lloyd. Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2019, pp. 1–170, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198831242.001.0001.

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Ewing, Thor. Viking Clothing. Tempus, 2006.

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Fransen, Lilli, et al. Medieval Garments Reconstructed Norse Clothing Patterns. Aarhus UP, 2011.

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Faulkes, Anthony. A New Introduction to Old Norse. 3rd ed., Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2005.

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Ferguson, Robert. The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings. Allen Lane, 2009.

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Foote, Peter, and Wilson, David M. The Viking Achievement: The Society and Culture of Early Medieval Scandinavia. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970.

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Garipzanov, Ildar H., and Bonté, Rosalind. Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age. Brepols Publishers n.v., 2014.

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Glubok, Shirley., and Nook, Gerard. The Art of the Vikings. Macmillan, 1978.

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Goeres, Erin Michelle. The Poetics of Commemoration: Skaldic Verse and Social Memory, c. 890-1070. First edition., Oxford UP, 2015.

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Graham-Campbell, James. Viking Art. Thames & Hudson, 2013.

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Graham-Campbell, et al. Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age. First edition., Oxford UP, 2019.

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Graham-Campbell and Williams, Gareth. Silver Economy in the Viking Age. Left Coast Press, 2007.

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Griffith, Paddy. The Viking Art of War. Greenhill Books, 1998.

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Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir. Farm Abandonment in Medieval and Post-Medieval Iceland: an Interdisciplinary Study. Oxbow Books, 1992.

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Hastrup, Kirsten. Culture and History in Medieval Iceland: An Anthropological Analysis of Structure and Change. Oxford UP, 1985.

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Hall, R. A. (Richard Andrew). The World of the Vikings. Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Hayeur Smith, Michèle. Draupnir’s Sweat and Mardöll’s Tears: An Archaeology of Jewellery, Gender and Identity in Viking Age Iceland. John and Erica Hedges, 2004.

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Hermann, Pernille, et al. Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture. Brepols, 2014.

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Hupfauf, Peter R. Tracing Their Tracks: Identification of Nordic Styles from the Early Middle Ages to the End of the Viking Period. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Jensen, Bo. Viking Age Amulets in Scandinavia and Western Europe. Archaeopress, 2010.

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Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Boydell Press, 1991.

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Jesch, Judith. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Boydell Press, 2001.

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Jesch, Judith. Viking Poetry of Love and War. The British Museum, 2013.

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Jesch, Judith. The Viking Diaspora. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Jennbert, Kristina. Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion. Nordic Academic Press, 2011.

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Jochens, Jenny. Old Norse Images of Women. U of Pennsylvania P, 1996.

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Jochens, Jenny. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell UP, 1995.

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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900-1300. Cornell UP, 2017.

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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Thomas Småberg. Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia c.1000-1800. Brepols, 2013.

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Kendrick, T. D. (Thomas Downing). Late Saxon and Viking Art. Methuen, 1949.

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Klæsøe, Iben Skibsted. Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.

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Klindt-Jensen, Ole., and Wilson, David M. Viking Art. Allen & Unwin, 1966.

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Leonard, S. P. (Stephen Pax). Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

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Lewis-Simpson, Shannon. Youth and Age in the Medieval North. Brill, 2008.

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Lilja Árnadóttir., and Kiran, Ketil. Church and Art: the Medieval Church in Norway and Iceland. Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, 1997.

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Maher, Ruth Ann. Landscapes of Gender, Age and Cosmology: Burial Perceptions in Viking Age Iceland. Archaeopress, 2013.

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McTurk, Rory. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. Blackwell Pub., 2005.

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Meylan, Nicolas. Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance. Brepols, 2014.

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Morris, Katherine. Sorceress or Witch?: the Image of Gender in Medieval Iceland and Northern Europe. UP of America, 1991.

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Mountfort, Paul Rhys. Nordic Runes: Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Viking Oracle. Destiny Books, 2003.

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Mundal, Else. The Double Impact of Christianization for Women in Old Norse Culture. Carocci, 2001.

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Nordal, Guðrún. Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland. Viking Society for Northern Research, 2003.

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Nordal, Guðrún. Tools of Literacy the Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. U of Toronto P, 2001.

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Norrman, Lena Elisabeth. Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries. Cambria Press, 2008.

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Orri Vesteinsson. The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300. Oxford UP, 2000.

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Page, Raymond Ian, and David Parsons. Runes and Runic Inscriptions Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes. Boydell Press, 1998.

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Pedersen, Anne. Dead Warriors in Living Memory: A Study of Weapon and Equestrian Burials in Viking-Age Denmark, AD 800-1000. National Museum, 2014.

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Peirce, Ian G. Swords of the Viking Age. Boydell Press, 2002.

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Poulsen, Bjørn., and Sindbæk, Søren M. Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia. Brepols, 2011.

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Ranković, Slavica, et al. Along the Oral-Written Continuum: Types of Texts, Relations, and Their Implications. Brepols, 2010.

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Richardson, Hazel. Life of the Ancient Vikings. Crabtree Pub., 2005.

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Ricketts, Philadelphia. High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Brill, 2010.

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Ross, Margaret Clunies. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. D.S. Brewer, 2005.

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Ross, Margaret Clunies. Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Cambridge UP, 2000.

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Sawyer, Birgit. The Viking-Age Rune-Stones Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia. Oxford UP, 2000.

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Schorn, Brittany. Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.

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Short, William R. Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques. Westholme, 2009.

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Short, William R. Icelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas. McFarland & Co., 2010.

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Siddorn, J. Kim. Viking Weapons & Warfare. New ed., Tempus, 2005.

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Sif Ríkharðsdóttir. Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts. D. S. Brewer, 2017.

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Sjøvold, Thorleif. The Oseberg Find and the Other Viking Ship Finds. Universitetets oldsaksamling, 1976.

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Stefoff, Rebecca. The Viking Explorers. Chelsea House, 1993.

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Steinsland, Gro. Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes. Brill, 2011.

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Stephenson, I. P. (Ian P.). Viking Warfare. Amberley Pub., 2012.

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Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif. Old Norse Women’s Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds. D. S. Brewer, 2011.

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Swenson, Karen. Performing Definitions: Two Genres of Insult in Old Norse Literature. 1st ed., Camden House, 1991.

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Turco, Jeffrey. New Norse Studies: Essays on the Literature and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia. Cornell UP, 2015.

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Wamhoff, Laura Sonja. Isländische Erinnerungskultur 1100-1300: altnordische Historiographie und kulturelles Gedächtnis [Icelandic Culture of Remembrance 1100-1300: Old Norse Historiography and Cultural Memory]. Narr Francke Attempto, 2016.

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Williams, Gareth. The Viking Ship. The British Museum Press, 2014.

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Williams, Mary Wilhelmine. Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age. The Macmillan company, 1920.

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Zori, Davide, and Byock, Jesse L. Viking Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project. Brepols, 2014.

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All 173 entries from the original bibliography.

About these bibliographies

The bibliographies and links were begun in 2019 with the support of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

The first is annotated with the major sources each new work draws on. None claims to be comprehensive.

Credits

Editors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Selina Heidinger Web Design & Technical Editor: Ryan E. Johnson Additional Research: Austin Quagleini With thanks to Migration: The 9th UM / University of Iceland Partnership Conference, From Iceland to the Americas, and The Afterlife of Eddas and Sagas.