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PREFACE This bibliography has been put together for the guidance of students studying the paper ‘Scandinavian history in the Viking age’ in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. Its model and inspiration was the bibliography of the history of Anglo- Saxon England compiled by Professor Simon Keynes, and like its predecessor this bibliography also makes no claim to be anything other than an informal and ephemeral document, in this case providing a bibliographical guide to the sources of, and major themes in, Viking history. Since the bibliography is intended primarily for the use of students, it includes translations as well as editions of primary written sources, and the emphasis is heavily upon secondary literature in English. When items in languages other than English are listed, the presence of any English summary is indicated by (E.s.). The bibliography accordingly makes no effort to be exhaustive in any respect, and overall concentrates extensively on more modern research; readers are nevertheless encouraged to delve more deeply through the use of bibliographies included in the items cited here. One final word of warning centres on the terms employed in this bibliography. ‘Scandinavia’ is here defined as a cultural rather than geographical area, encompassing Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Faroe, and Iceland; moreover, even within those limits ‘Scandinavian’ refers to the culture of the Germanicspeaking elements rather than the indigenous Lappish or Sami populations. In chronological terms ‘Viking age’ is employed to refer roughly to a period from around 750 to around 1050; the period before 750 has been called ‘Iron age’, the period after 1050 ‘mediaeval’. These parameters are for pure convenience only, even though it is appreciated that they are an uneasy mixture of English and Scandinavian, or archaeological and conventional historical, conceptions that can rightly be criticised as too rigid, misleading, or simply wrong. 1 October 2001 Martin Syrett Scandinavian History in the Viking Age: a Select Bibliography was first issued in October 2001. Notification of any errors and suggestions for possible improvements are most welcome, and should be directed to Mr Jonathan Grove, Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP. Note for the Cambridge reader The vast majority of references in this bibliography are (or soon will be) available for consultation in the libraries of the University of Cambridge, and to some extent preference has been given to the inclusion of such items at the expense of others which are not held in those libraries. The bulk of them are naturally only accessible in the University Library, but a fair range of material is also to be located in the libraries of various departments, such as the Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic section of the English Faculty Library, the Seeley Library of the Faculty of History, and the Haddon Library of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology; references to holding libraries and classmarks will generally be found in square brackets following individual items, with preference given to the University Library. Students are encouraged to help build up the holdings of their college libraries and may well want to purchase some of the more general items in section (A) themselves. THE DEPARTMENT OF ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE, AND CELTIC Information on the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, including a guide to the ASNC Tripos, is available on the Department’s website. ISSN 1475-8520 ISBN 0 9532172 9 9
SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY IN THE VIKING AGE A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Table of Contents Textbooks, reference works, and written sources A Textbooks and reference works 1 B Written sources I Anthologies and series 6 II Non-Scandinavian sources 7 III West Norse prose historiography 21 IV Old Norse verse 36 V East Norse historiography 45 VI Documentary sources 49 VII Other disciplines 55 Political and social history C Scandinavia 60 D Denmark 72 E Norway 78 F Sweden 82 The Viking expansion G Iceland 87 H Faroe, Greenland, and North America 91 I Western Europe 94 J The East 104 Religion K Paganism 107 L Christianity 114 Archaeology M Material culture 124 N Trade and towns 135 O Collections of papers 148 P List of abbreviations 150 Of the Germanic islands Scandinavia is the greatest, but there is nothing great in it beyond itself Dicuil, Liber de mensura orbis terrae VII:18 (anno 825)
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