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Northmen

Here are entered works on the inhabitants of Scandinavia prior to the 10th century. Works on the Scandinavian sea-warriors who plundered the northern and western coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 10th centuries are entered under Vikings. Works on the inhabitants of Scandinavia since the 10th century are entered under Scandinavians.

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• Northmen -- Religion
• Northmen -- Scotland
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse
• Normans
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• Norsemen

• The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)

• The Cross and the Hammer: A Tale of the Days of the Vikings (Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, c1912), by H. Bedford-Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Viking's Love, and Other Tales of the North (Chicago: A. C. McClure and Co., 1911), by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)

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

• Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by John Horace Round (PDF at McMaster)

• William the Conqueror, by Edward A. Freeman (Gutenberg text)

• William the Conqueror, by Jacob Abbott
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Gesta Normannorum Ducum (main text in Latin; notes in French; Rouen: A. Lestringant; Paris: A. Picard , 1914), by William of Jumièges, ed. by Jean Marx, contrib. by Ordericus Vitalis and Robert de Torigni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History, by William of Newburgh, trans. by Joseph Stevenson (HTML at Fordham)

• Ungedruckte Anglo-Normannische Geschichtsquellen (in German; Strasbourg and London: Trübner, 1879), ed. by F. Liebermann
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Literal Extension and Translation of the Portion of Domesday Book Relating to Cheshire and Lancashire, and to Parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire (published to accompany a facsimile not included here; Domesday text in Latin and English; Chester: Minshull and Hughes; London: Vacher and Sons, 1863), ed. by William Beamont
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Literal Extension and Translation of the Portion of Domesday Book Relating to Cheshire and Lancashire, and to Parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire (published to accompany a facsimile not included here; Domesday text in Latin and English; Chester: Minshull and Hughes; London: Vacher and Sons, 1863), ed. by William Beamont
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First (London: Imprinted by R.B., 1613), by John Hayward (Gutenberg text)
• Scriptores Rerum Gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris (in Latin, French, and English; London: D. Nutt., 1845), ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)
• William the Conqueror, by Edward A. Freeman (Gutenberg text)
• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Falaise, the Town of the Conqueror (Boston: Little, Brown, and company, 1910), by Anna Bowman Dodd (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In the Days of William the Conqueror (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1901), by Eva March Tappan, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)

• William the Conqueror, by Jacob Abbott
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Pictish and Norse Finds From the Brough of Birsay, 1934-74 (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1982), by C. L. Curle (PDF files at ADS)

• The Religion of the Northmen (New York: C. B. Norton, 1854), by Rudolph Keyser, trans. by Barclay Pennock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• 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
• Extracts from the Sagas Describing the Voyages to Vinland (American history leaflets constitutional and colonial #3; New York: A. Lovell and Co., 1892), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing, trans. by Arthur Middleton Reeves
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Norse Discovery of America (London et al.: Norroena Society, 1906), by Arthur Middleton Reeves, North Ludlow Beamish, and Rasmus B. Anderson
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, With Translations from the Icelandic Sagas (second edition; Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1890), by B. F. DeCosta (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Discoveries of the Norsemen on the Northeast Coast of America: Their Attempt at Colonization (reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Geogrpahical Society of the Pacific, 1910), by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Gustave Niebaum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Norsemen in the West: or, America Before Columbus, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Vinland Champions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1904), by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viking Mettles: Vikings on Lake Superior Early in the Eleventh Century (Ironwood, MI: J.G.R. Baner, ca. 1930), by Johan G. R. Banér (page images at HathiTrust)

• People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2017), ed. by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Goffredo Malaterra, trans. by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171, by Lynn H. Nelson (HTML in Italy)

• Stories of the Vikings, by Mary Macgregor, illust. by Monro S. Orr (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Swords of the Vikings: Stories from the Works of Saxo Grammaticus (retold for children by Davis; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1937), by Saxo Grammaticus and Julia Davis, illust. by Suzanne Lassen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last of the Vikings (c1964), by Henry Treece (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, by R. M. Ballantyne, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson (Gutenberg text)
• Viking Tales (Chicago: Rand McNally, c1902), by Jennie Hall, illust. by Victor Ralph Lambdin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics

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

• Viking Mettles: Vikings on Lake Superior Early in the Eleventh Century (Ironwood, MI: J.G.R. Baner, ca. 1930), by Johan G. R. Banér (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Northland Heroes (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1922), by Florence Holbrook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Danmarks Krønike (2 volumes in 1, in Danish; Copenhagen: A Christiansen, 1907), by Saxo Grammaticus, trans. by Fr. Winkel Horn, illust. by Louis Moe
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society #33; London: D. Nutt, 1894), by Saxo Grammaticus, trans. by Oliver Elton, contrib. by F. York Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1890), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts (Gutenberg text)
• The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus (2 volumes; London et al.: Norroena Society, ca. 1905), by Saxo Grammaticus, trans. by Oliver Elton, contrib. by F. York Powell (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, by Saxo Grammaticus, trans. by Oliver Elton
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica (2 volumes in 3 parts, in Latin; Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1839-1858), by Saxo Grammaticus, ed. by Peter Erasmus Müller and Hans Mattias Velschow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica Libri XVI (bound with Stephanius's Notae Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici; in Latin; 1644-1645), by Saxo Grammaticus and Stephan Hansen Stephanius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.