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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Nordic States and Societies
Contents
General
- Ibn Fadlan and the Rusiyyah, trans of the Risala by James E. Montgomery, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies3 (2000) PDF. [Internet Archive version here]
- The Account given by Ohthere of the Northlands to King Alfred, from The Old English Orosius [At Anglo-Saxon Archeology] [Internet Archive version here] + A PDF of the Anglo-Saxon Text with English Translation (1773)
- The Account given by Wulfstan of the Northlands to King Alfred, from The Old English Orosius [At Anglo-Saxon Archeology] [Internet Archive version here] + A PDF of the Anglo-Saxon Text with English Translation (1773)
- Alan Orr Anderson, Early sources of Scottish history, A.D. 500 to 1286 (1922). Translation of many texts. PDF. [Internet Archive]
- Othere's report on his travels. [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Description of Northern Europe in the Anglo-Saxon translation of the History of Orosius. [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Wulfstan's report on his travels. [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Rimbert: The Life of Anskar, the Apostle of the North,
801-865. See also
Catholic
Encyclopedia: St Anschar
- Rimbert: The Life of Anskar, the Apostle of the North,
801-865. PDF [Internet Archive]
- Rimbert, Life of Ansgar [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Widukind of Corvey: The Three Books of the Deeds of the Saxons, by , Translated with Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Raymond F Wood, Raymond, unpublished PhD dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 1949). [At ProQuest]
- The Rök Stone [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Arabic sources on the Norse PDF[At Wisc] [Internet Archive version here]
English translation and notes based on the texts edited by Alexander Seippel (1959) in Rerum Normannicarum Fontes Arabici
- A letter from Pope John X advising Archbishop Heriveus of Rheims how to deal with Northmen who apostatised. 914 [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
- King Harald Harfager of Norway (r. 860-930): Laws for Land Property
- Theoderic the Monk: :The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings 7-14 [Internet Archive, was at Yale]
- Theodoricus Monachus: Historia de antiquitate regum Norwagiensium. An Account of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings, trans. David McDougall and Ian McDougall (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1998) PDF[At VNSRweb] [Internet Archive version here]
- A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr, trans. Devra Kunin and Carl Phelpstead, transls, (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2001) [At VNSRweb] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ágrip af Nóregs konungasögum, A Twelfth Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway, ed. and trans M.J. Driscoll (2008), full text. [At VNSRweb] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Battle of Norafiord (1184), according to the Sverrissaga [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Siege of the Rock of Tunsberg (1201), from the Sverrissaga [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thirteenth Century Warfare between Norway and Scotland [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Selection about warfare from The King’s Mirror, a thirteenth century Norwegian text [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
Orkney, Shetlands and Faroes
Iceland
- Henry Sweet: Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary [Project Gutenberg]
- Ari the Learned:, The Book of the Settlement of Iceland (12th Century), trans. from the Original Icelandic of
by Ari Þorgilsson by Thomas Ellwood, full text, (1898) [Internet Archive]
- Ari: Íslendingabók and Kristni sagai - The Book of the Icelanders - The Story of the Conversion, 999/1000 AD, trans Siân Grønlie (2006), full text, PDF/ [At VSNR] [Internet Archive version here]
- Warfare in Thirteenth Century Iceland [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Grettis rímur, trans Lee Colwill, Icelandic/English full text PDF [At Aberdeen] [Internet Archive backup here]
"Grettis rímur is 78-stanza poetic account of the early life of the saga-hero Grettir Ásmundarson, found in the fifteenth-century manuscript Kollsbók (Cod. Guelf. 42.7 4to) and its 1849 copy, AM 387 fol.2 In the poetic form known as rímur, a style of rhymed, narrative poetry that was immensely popular in Iceland from the late medieval period through to the nineteenth century,"
Sagas
Greenland
Vinland
NOTES: Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or
location]. No indication means that the text file is local. WEB indicates a link to one of
small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially
valuable overview.
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