Aswynn, Freya, Northern Mysteries and Magic: Runes, Gods and Feminine Powers (formerly Leaves of Yggdrasil), ISBN: 0-87542-024-9
Principles of the Runes, ISBN: 0-7225-3883-9
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Norse Myths, ISBN: 0394748468
Guerber, H.A., Myths of the Norsemen; From the Eddas and Sagas, ISBN: 0-486-27348-2
Hollander, Lee M., The Poetic Edda, ISBN: 0-292-76499-5
Larrington, Carolyne, The Poetic Edda; A New Translation (Oxford World’s Classics),ISBN:0-19-283946-2(this is our preferred translation of the Eddas)
Saemund Sigfusson, Snorre Sturleson, The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson, ISBN: 978-1406822908 (this is really interesting because the two Eddas (Prose and Poetic) are together in the same book, but the translation is tough)
Further Studies: Blain, Jenny, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstacy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism, ISBN: 0-415-25650-X
Byock, Jesse, Feud in the Icelandic Sagas, ISBN: 0-520-08259 Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power, ISBN: 0-520-06954-4
Chisholm, James Allen, True Hearth; A Practical Guide to Traditional Householding, ISBN: 1-885972-02-4
Colum, Padraic, Nordic Gods and Heroes, ISBN: 0-486-28912-5
Coulter, James Hjuka, Germanic Heathenry: A Practical Guide, ISBN: 1-4107-6585-7 (this book has single-handedly changed my Heathen life)
Davidson, Hilda Ellis (or H.R. Ellis Davidson), Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, ISBN: 0-14-013627-4 The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, ISBN: 0-7607-1629-3 Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, ISBN: 0-8156-2441-7 Roles of the Northern Goddess, ISBN: 0-415-13611-3
Dronke, Ursula, Myth and Fiction in Early Norse Lands, ISBN: 0-86078-545-9
DuBois, Thomas A., Nordic Religions in the Viking Age, ISBN: 0-8122-1714-4
Evans, Cheryl and Rodney Matthews, Usborne Illustrated Guide to Norse Myths and Legends, ISBN: 0-7460-0010-3 (Just for fun)
Gundarsson, Kveldulf, et all, Elves, Wights and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry, Vol 1, ISBN: 978-0-595-42165 Our Troth Volumes 1 and 2, ISBN: 1-4196-3598-0 and 1-4196-3641-6 respectively. Teutonic Religion: Folk Beliefs and Practices of the Northern Tradition, ISBN: 0-87542-260-8
Hatto, A.T., The Nibelungenlied (A Penguin Classics), ISBN: 0-14-044137-9 (Excellent tale of the hero Sigfried and Kriemhild)
Heaney, Seamus, Beowulf (A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition), ISBN: 0-374-11119-7
Heath, Ian, The Vikings, ISBN: 1-84176-057-9
Jones, Gwyn, Erik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Oxford World’s Classics), ISBN: 0-19-283530-0
Lord, Garman, The Way of the Heathen; A Handbook of Greater Theodism, ISBN:192934001X
*Lumping these two together because they need to be* ..................................................................................... Lafayllve, Patricia M., Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess, ISBN: 1-598000-421-2 Sheffield, Ann Groa, Frey: God of the World, ISBN: 978-4357-0108-3 ..................................................................................................... Magnusson, Magnus and Hermann Palsson, The Vinland Sagas; The Norse Discovery ofAmerica, (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044154-9
Paxson, Diana L., Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination and Magic, ISBN: 1-57863-325-7
Picard, Barbara Leonie, Tales of the Norse Myths, ISBN: 0-19-274167-5
Rives, J.B., Tacitus Germania, ISBN: 0-19-924000-0
Smith, A.G., Viking Designs, ISBN: 0-486-40469-2 (Just for fun)
Spence, Lewis, Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine, ISBN: 0-486-28870-6
Spence, Pamela, Mad About Mead; Nectar of the Gods, ISBN: 1-56718683-1
Svensson, Horik, The Runes, ISBN: 1-56619-964-6
(Thorsson, Edred/Stephan Flowers, one and the same)
Flowers, Stephen, The Galdrabok; An Icelandic Grimoire, ISBN: 0-87728-685-X
Thorsson, Edred, A Book of Troth, ISBN: 0-87542-777-4 Futhark; A Handbook of Rune Magic, ISBN: 0877285489 The Nine Doors of Midgard; A Complete Curriculum of Rune Magic, ISBN: 0-87542-781-2 Northern Magic; Mysteries of the Norse, Germans and English, ISBN: 0-87542-782-0 Northern Magic; Rune Mysteries and Shamanism, ISBN: 1-56718-709-9
Thorsson, Ornolfur et al eds, The Saga of the Icelanders, ISBN: 0-67088990-3