Bookhoard

Recommended First Reads:

RHK always recommends an online book search with Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/


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)

Grimm, Jacob, Teutonic Mythology Vols 1-4, 0-486-43546-6, 0-486-43547-4, 0-486-43548-2, 0-486-43549-0 respectively

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*
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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
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Magnusson, Magnus and Hermann Palsson, The Vinland Sagas; The Norse Discovery of America, (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044154-9

Laxdaela Saga (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0-14-044218-9

Musset, Lucien, The Germanic Invasions; The Making of Europe 400-600AD,          ISBN: 1-56619-326-5

Myth and Mankind, Sagas of the Norsemen, ISBN: 0-7054-3533-4

Owen, Francis, The Germanic People; Their Origin, Expansion and Culture, ISBN: 0-88029-579-1

Palsson, Hermann, Hrafnkel’s Saga (Penguin Classics), ISBN: 0-14-044238-3

Paul, Jim, The Rune Poem; Wisdom’s Fulfillment, Prophecy’s Reach, ISBN: 08118-1136-0 

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

Titchenell, Elsa-Britta, The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse, ISBN: 0-911500-73-1
     (Free online version: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/odin/odin-hp.htm) 

Sawyer, P. H., Kings and Vikings; Scandinavia and Europe 700AD-1100AD,          ISBN: 1-56619-539-X

Sturlason, Snorre, Heimskringla, or, The Lives of the Norse Kings, ISBN: 0-486          26366-5

The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology (Young translation) ISBN: 0520012321

          ­Edda (Everyman’s Library edition, Faulks Translation) ISBN:0-460-87616-3

Welch, Lynda C., Goddess of the North; A Comprehensive Study of the Norse Goddesses from Antiquity to the Modern Age, ISBN: 1-57863-170-X