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• Old Norse literature -- Translations into English
• Manuscripts, Old Norse
• Old Norse poetry
• Romances, Old Norse
• Sagas

• Icelandic and Old Norse literature

• Norse Mythology: or, The Religion of Our Forefathers, Containing All the Myths of the Eddas, Systematized and Interpreted, With an Introduction, Vocabulary and Index (second edition; Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1876), by Rasmus B. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Religion of the Northmen (New York: C. B. Norton, 1854), by Rudolph Keyser, trans. by Barclay Pennock (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Islandica (partial serial archives)

• A History of Icelandic Literature (originally published 1957; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Stefán Einarsson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in "Beowulf" (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Edward Pettit (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Home of the Eddic Poems, With Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays (revised edition; London: D. Nutt, 1899), by Sophus Bugge, trans. by William Henry Schofield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Medieval Saga (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Carol J. Clover (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Angevin Britain and Scandinavia (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature v6; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921), by Henry Goddard Leach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Saga-Book (scroll down for volumes; 1895-2013 available as of listing date), ed. by Viking Society for Northern Research (partial serial archives)

• Saga-Book (scroll down for volumes; 1895-2013 available as of listing date), ed. by Viking Society for Northern Research (partial serial archives)

• Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included in the Poetic Edda (1936), ed. by Lee M. Hollander (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda, trans. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Laxdaela Saga, trans. by Muriel Press
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • PDF at In Parentheses
• The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald, trans. by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, trans. by W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson (Gutenberg text)
• The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Grettir's Saga), trans. by George Ainslie Hight (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Story of Grettir the Strong, trans. by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (main text, plus some editorial material), ed. by Kuno Meyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) (London: Williams and Norgate, 1911), by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Ethel Harriet Hearn and Gustav Storm, illust. by Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krogh, Gerhard Munthe, Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen, Erik Theodor Werenskiold, and Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda, trans. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts, Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century (London et al.: Norroena Society, 1906), contrib. by Rasmus B. Anderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts, Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century (London et al.: Norroena Society, 1908), contrib. by Rasmus B. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diplomatarium Faeroense, Føroyskt Fodnbraevasavn: Miðalaldarbrøv upp til Trúbótarskeiðið (only volume known to be published; in Faroese; Tórshavn: H.N. Jacobsen; Copenhangen: Prior, 1907), by Jakob Jakobsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Norse King's Bridal: Translations from the Danish and Old Norse, with Original Ballads (London: A Melrose, 1912), ed. by E. M. Smith-Dampier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse, by Elsa Brita Titchenell (HTML at abacus-es.com)

• Det Norsk-islandske Skjaldesprog omtr. 800-1300 (in Danish; Copenhagen: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, 1901), by Finnur Jónsson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trubner and Co., 1880), ed. by Rasmus B. Anderson, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1901), ed. by Rasmus B. Anderson, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson (Gutenberg text)

• The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Harvard Classics v49; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1910), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere, John O'Hagan, Whitley Stokes, Eiríkr Magnússon, and William Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viking Tales (Chicago: Rand McNally, c1902), by Jennie Hall, illust. by Victor Ralph Lambdin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• America Not Discovered by Columbus: A Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen, in the Tenth Century (with an appendix on Scandinavian languages; Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1874), by Rasmus B. Anderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Twelve Stories (this edition 1945), by Steen Steensen Blicher, trans. by Hanna Astrup Larsen, contrib. by Sigrid Undset (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Scandinavian, contrib. by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Juhani Aho, Meïr Goldschmidt, Alexander Lange Kielland, and Fredrika Bremer (Gutenberg text)

• A History of Icelandic Literature (originally published 1957; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Stefán Einarsson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Selected Poetry and Prose, by Jónas Hallgrímsson, ed. by Dick Ringler (HTML at Wisconsin)

• Eimreiðin (in Icelandic) (full serial archives)
• Saga-Book (scroll down for volumes; 1895-2013 available as of listing date), ed. by Viking Society for Northern Research (partial serial archives)

• The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Fire and Ice: Three Icelandic Plays (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967), ed. by Einar Haugen (page images at Wisconsin)

• Seven Icelandic Short Stories, ed. by Ásgeir Pétursson and Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson (Gutenberg text)