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Scandinavian History in the Viking Age
[A50] The Viking age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic: select papers from the Proceedings of
the eleventh Viking Congress, Thurso and Kirkwall, 22 August-1 September 1989, edd. C.E. Batey et al.
(1993) [UL 486:3.c.95.37]
[A51] Developments around the Baltic and the North Sea in the Viking age: proceedings of the twelfth
Viking Congress, edd. B. Ambrosiani and H. Clarke, Birka studies 3 (1994) [UL 595:01.c.16.3]
[A52] Vikings and the Danelaw: select papers from the proceedings of the thirteenth Viking congress,
Nottingham and York, 21-30, August 1997, edd. James Graham-Campbell (2001) [UL 541:16.c.200.1]
Other conference series
[A60] Also interesting are the series of symposiums on Viking-age studies held annually in a rotation
system around the various Scandinavian countries, beginning with the Beretning fra første tværfaglige
vikingesymposium, Odense universitet 1982, edd. H. Bekker-Nielsen and H.F. Nielsen (1982) [UL
L592.c.25.1]. The contributions (typically three per volume) are naturally largely in the vernacular
Scandinavian languages and often concentrate on particular themes; as a result individual articles have
been cited separately throughout the bibliography
[A61] Every few years sees another ‘International Saga Conference’, most recently in Sydney in 2000,
which include many papers of interest to Scandinavian history as well as Old Norse literature; the
proceedings are not normally properly published, but some of the conferences have yielded pre-printed
papers which make it into libraries. The papers are however often very compressed or incomplete, and
they are frequently published properly elsewhere. Those available in Cambridge are: [a] P.G. Foote et al.,
(edd.), Proceedings of the first International saga conference, University of Edinburgh, 1971 (1973) [UL
752:37.d.95.7]; [d] Fourth International saga conference, München, July 30th-August 4th, 1979 [UL
752:37.c.95.32] (each article independently paginated); [f] The sixth International saga conference, 28.7-
2.8.1985: workshop papers [UL 752:16.c.95.27]; [g] The seventh International saga conference: poetry
in the Scandinavian Middle ages, Atti del 12o congresso internazionale di studi sull’alto medioevo, ed.
Teresa Pàroli (1990) [UL P532.b.31.16]; [h] M. Clunies Ross and G. Barnes, (edd.), Old Norse myths,
literature and society. The eleventh international saga conference (2000), online at
www.arts.usyd.edu/Arts/departs/medieval/saga
Reference works
Encyclopaedias
[A70] Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder fra vikingetid til reformationstid, 22 vols (1956-
78) [KLNM, UL R538.201]; an indispensable companion with articles in a variety of Scandinavian
languages
[A71] Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 2nd edn, 25 vols, edd. Herbert Jankuhn et al
(1968- ) [UL R466.17]; a magnificent encyclopedia on all aspects of the cultural history of the Germanicspeaking
peoples until the Carolingian period, and Scandinavia until the twelfth century, currently
comprising entries from ‘Aachen’ to ‘Rzucewo-Kultur’
[A72] R. Simek and H. Pálsson, Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur, Kröners Taschenausgabe 490
(1987) [UL R752.8]; a very useful guide to medieval Scandinavian literature
[A73] Medieval Scandinavia: an encyclopedia, Garland encyclopedias of the Middle ages 1, ed. P.
Pulsiano (1993) [UL R532.50]; a fairly strong emphasis on literary material, but worth consulting for its
many articles on aspects of medieval Scandinavian history and archaeology
Bibliographies
[A75] The Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies [BONIS] comprises a selective but extensive list
of publications on Old Norse language and literature, runology, and medieval Scandinavian history and
archaeology. The Royal Library in Copenhagen produced annual printed editions of BONIS for the years
1963-1983. An electronic database covers scholarship from 1984 onward, and is accessible online at
http://embla.bib.sdu.dk/bonis/. For a useful introduction, see:
[A76] P. Buchholz, ‘A bibliographical introduction to mediaeval Scandinavia’, BONIS 1972, 9-87
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