Resources
Primary texts
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Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda (Norna-Gestr Saga) - Old Norse and modern English translation by George Hardman
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Heimskringla - Large collection of texts in Old Norse, such as sagas and the Eddas
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Heorot - Beowulf and other texts such as the Finnsburh fragment in Old and Modern English with notes
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Landnámabók - The book of the land-taking of Iceland
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Ibn Fadlān's account of Scandinavian merchants on the Volga in 922 - A section of the Arabic writer's description of his travels with notes
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Sacred texts (Heimskringla) - Samuel Laing's translation of the Heimskringla collection of sagas
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Sagadb - A number of sagas with English translations
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Sagas of Ragnar Loðbrók - Tales of the famed Viking Ragnar Loðbrók and his sons and their invasion of Britain
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Tales from the far past - A collection of old Germanic stories
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Wyrtig (Æcerbot) - Æcerbot in Old and Modern English
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Voluspa - Old Norse and Modern English translations of medieval texts including the Poetic and Prose Edda
Art and material culture
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emidsvikings - Virtual museum of Scandinavian art from the East Midlands
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gelmir - Growing database of Germanic art by Jonas Lau Markussen
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jonaslaumarkussen - Guides and examples of Germanic art from before the Migration Period to the end of the Viking age
Academic papers and books
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At the Water's Edge - Northern Germanic religious practice at bodies of water with a focus on Anglo-Saxon England
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Beowulf: the monsters and the critics - One of Tolkien's famed lectures on Beowulf
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Contradictory cosmology in Old Norse myth and religion – but still a system - A challenge to the naturalistic model of traditional cosmology
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Cosmos - A collection of papers on northern cosmology
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Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity - A discussion of all things elvish in early England
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Essays in honour of Rudolf Simek - A collection of papers on a wide range of heathen topics
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Holy islands and the otherworld: places beyond water - The importance of bodies of water in heathenry
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Horses in Mind - Germanic religious practices involving horses with a focus on the English
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Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning - Leading proposal of how to reconstruct the early Germanic lunisolar calendar (in Swedish but with an English summary at the end)
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Masks and Mumming Traditions in the North Atlantic - Exploration of some shared traditions in the North Atlantic area from the medieval to the modern period
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Myth, Materiality and Lived Religion - Journal discussing a range of topics centred on how Old Norse heathenry interacted with daily life
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Pantheon? What Pantheon? - Discussion of the diversity in Old Norse religion
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Power and Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia - Overview of the establishment of Christianity in Scandinavia
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The Æsir and Their Idols - Discussion of Germanic cult images and their targeting by Christians
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The Festival Year: A Survey of the Annual Festival Cycle and Its Relation to the Heathen Lunisolar Calendar - Overview of the early medieval North Germanic festival year
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The iconography of Viking-Age stone sculptures: visual evidence of religious accommodation in the Anglo-Scandinavian communities of Northern England - Dissertation on Early Medieval art
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The Wagon, The Phallus and The Conical Hat: Origins and Features of Freyr's Cult in Heathen-Age Iceland - A dig into the cult of Freyr
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Þur sarriþu þursa trutin": Monster-Fighting and Medicine in Early Medieval Scandinavia - Exploration of the role of thurses and dwarfs in northern Germanic conception of disease
Blogs
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Brute Norse - Blog on Germanic cultures and their modern reception
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Mimisbrunnr - Website on ancient Germanic cultures with texts and discussion of symbolism
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Nordic Animism - Movement to recover traditional animist knowledge from Northwestern Europe
Podcasts and videos
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Jackson Crawford - Old Norse specialist teaching about Early Medieval Scandinavia and related topics
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Nordic Animism - Movement to recover traditional animist knowledge from Northwestern Europe
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Ocean Keltoi - Heathen with a focus on modern practice
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The Nordic Mythology Podcast - Broad podcast discussing topics such as Germanic cultures and modern heathenry
Dictionaries
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Bosworth Toller - Old English
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Cleasby-Vigfusson - Old Norse
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Wiktionary - Imperfect but accessible starting point with many declensions and conjugations of words
Inclusive Heathen groups
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Asatru UK - UK wide
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Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige - Sweden wide
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The Confederation of UK Heathen Kindreds - A collection of local groups in the UK
Other
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Survey of English placenames - Database for the etymology of English place names
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Gods and Mythological Beings in the Younger Futhark - List of runic inscriptions about wights with translations
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Heathen and mythological elements in English place names - List of place names with potentially heathen components
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Megalithic - Website with maps of ancient sites
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Runor - Interactive map of Younger Fuþark runic inscriptions
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TOEBI - A host of Old English learning resources