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History 4550: Age of the Vikings: Books From Syllabus

Required Course Books (links to the Library Catalog records)

The Life of King Alfred
Call Number: DA153 .A8213 2002
ISBN: 0333699173
The Vikings In History
Call Number: DL65 .L63 1983
ISBN: 0415083966
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
Call Number: ON ORDER for Ellis Library
ISBN: 0140252827
The Prose Edda by Available free online via Gutenberg-e
ISBN: 0140447555
Egil's Saga by 1893 Translation available in the Icelandic Saga Database
ISBN: 0140447709

Books for Grad Students To Review (links to the Library Catalog record)

Strategies of passion : love and marriage in medieval Iceland and Norway
Call Number: HQ645 .B3613 2005
ISBN: 2503521630
Feud in the Icelandic Saga
Call Number: PT7181 .B9 1982
ISBN: 0520082591
Viking Age Iceland
Call Number: DL352 .B96 2001
ISBN: 0140291156
The Norsemen in the Viking Age
Call Number: DL65 .C49 2002
ISBN: 0631216774
Nordic Religions of the Viking Age by REQUEST VIA MOBIUS
ISBN: 0812217144
The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society, and Culture by REQUEST VIA MERLIN
ISBN: 071905981X
Land, Sea, and Home: Settlement in the Viking Period by REQUEST VIA ILL
ISBN: 1904350259
Goodbye to the Vikings: Re-reading Early Medieval Archaeology
Call Number: D125 .H63 2006
ISBN: 0715634291
Women in the Viking Age
Call Number: DL65 .J47 1991
ISBN: 0851152783
Women in Old Norse society
Call Number: HQ1147.N8 J63 1995
ISBN: 0801431654
Old Norse Images of Women by REQUEST VIA MERLIN
Call Number: PT7162.W6 J6 1996
ISBN: 0812233581
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Medieval Iceland
Call Number: KKG12 .M55 1990
ISBN: 0226526798
The Social Consequences of Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia
Call Number: DL61 .N43 2004
ISBN: 2503514502
Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries by REQUEST VIA MERLIN
Call Number: DL65 .N67 2008
ISBN: 1604975326
Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World by REQUEST VIA MOBIUS
Call Number: PT7154 .L43 2007
ISBN: 2503525806
Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society by REQUEST VIA MOBIUS
Call Number: PT7107 .O436 2003
ISBN: 8778387949
The Viking-age rune-stones : custom and commemoration in early medieval Scandinavia by REQUEST VIA MOBIUS
Call Number: PD2013 .S27 2000
ISBN: 0198206437
Medieval Scandinavia : from conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500
Call Number: DL61 .S29 1993
ISBN: 0816617392
Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power, 840-1066
Call Number: DC611.N856 S43 1988
ISBN: 0520062760
Kings and Vikings : Scandinavia and Europe, A.D. 700-1100 by REQUEST FROM MU DEPOSITORY
Call Number: DL65 .S254 1982
ISBN: 0416741800