Want to read more about Vikings?
Below is a Vikingology Podcast approved list of books about various aspects of Vikings and their Age. It’s not exhaustive and as more are published we’ll add to the list. Enjoy!
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas (2016)
Stefan Brink and Neil Price editors, The Viking World (2008)
Stefan Brink, Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age (2021)
Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland (2001)
Nancy Marie Brown, The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman (2007)
Nancy Marie Brown, The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women (2021)
Katherine Cross, Heirs of the Vikings: history and identity in Normandy and England c. 950 - c. 1015 (2021)
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (1999)
P.G. Foote and D.M. Wilson, The Viking Achievement (1980)
Johanna Friðriksdóttir, Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World (2020)
Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology (2017)
Leszek Gardela, Women and Weapons in the Viking World (2021)
P. Griffith, The Viking Art of War (1995)
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Irene García Losquiño editors, Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons (2023)
Jón Karl Helgason, Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas (2017)
Cat Jarman, River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads (2022)
Judith Jesch, Women in the Viking Age (1991)
Judith Jesch, The Viking Diaspora (2015)
Jenny Jochens, Women in Old Norse Society (1998)
Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings (1984)
John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to The Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (2002)
Mathias Nordvig, Ásatrú For Beginners: A Modern Heathen’s Guide to the Ancient Northern Way (2020)
Philip Parker, The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World (2014)
Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (2020)
Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2002)
Neil Price and Ben Raffield, The Vikings (2023)
Else Roesdahl, The Vikings (1992)
Peter Sawyer (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (1997)
William Short and Reynir Óskarson, Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat (2021)
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings (2021)
Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald, The Vikings and Their Age (2013)
Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald, The Viking age: a reader (2014, 2020)
Anders Winroth, The Conversion of Scandinavia (2012)
Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings (2014)
Kirsten Wolf, Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen (2004)
Davide Zori and Jesse Byock editors, Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project (2014)
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In addition to the non-fiction books above, if you fancy some fictional writing about Vikings, check out C.J.’s books by clicking on the Books tab above on the nav bar.