SOURCE MATERIAL

Records of contempory writers

Writers recording events from their own lifetime

Post conversion ancient literature

Records from after the official conversion to Christianity, but during the medieval period.

(1) Edda, Snorri Sturluson, trans by Anthony Faulkes, Everyman 1998.

(2) The Poetic Edda, trans by Carolyne Larrington, Oxford Univ Press, 1996.

Folklore

Tales, customs and traditions relevant to the Northern Religion, possiblly surviving in folk memory from ancient times and recorded after the Medieval period.

Modern Academic Interpretations

Modern research on the original source material.

(i) Simek

(ii) Orchard

(iii) Ellis Davidson - Gods & Myths

(iv) Ellis Davidson - Scandinavia Myth

(v) Turville Petre

(vi) Branston - Gods of the North

(vii) Branston - Lost gods of England

(viii) Page - runes BM

(ix) Page - Chronicles of the Viings

(x) Gale Owen Crocker - Rite of the Anglo Saxons

(xi) Wilson - Anglo Saxon Paganism

(xii) MM - Hammer of the North

(xiii) MM - Iceland Saga

(xiv) Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration and Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books. 1992

Modern Heathen Work

Interpretations on the Northern Religion by modern heathens

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