Asatru Recommended Reading List | |||
The following books constitute a solid library on Asatru and related subjects. Many of these volumes are currently * Gods of the Ancient Northmen * History of the Vikings out-of-print but are worth the trouble of obtaining. Books which can be ordered through Amazon or Runa Raven Press are * Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe * Myth and Religion of the North noted with an asterisk. * Myths and Symbols of Pagan Europe * Norse Myths Eddas, Sagas, and Other Ancient Texts * Nordic Religion of the Viking Age * The Road to Hel The term "Edda" is used to describe two very different collections of lore. One is the Elder Edda, also known as * Role of the Northern Goddess * Well and the Tree the Poetic Edda. This is a compilation of manuscripts and fragments in verse form, dating from the pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon period or shortly afterward. Various translations may be found in print at any given time * The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ango-Saxon England * Lady with a Mead Cup The other manuscript classified as an Edda is the * Sword in Anglo-Saxon Europe * Wisdom of the Wyrd Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, written in Iceland some two centuries after the coming of Christianity to that island. Germanic Sagas are stories, ranging from the semi-historical to the mythological, from pre-Christian or early Christian times in *Essays in Germanic Religion *Germanic Invasions the Nordic lands. *Germanic People *Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity We have also included here other early chronicles and histories by Tacitus and Saxo Grammaticus. Click here for more details. * Poetic Edda Runes & Magic * Prose Edda * At the Well of Wyrd: A Handbook of Runic Divination * Egil's Saga * Grettir's Saga * Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic * Nine Doors of Midgard * Heimskringla * Njal's Saga * Northern Magic * Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology * Saga of the Jomsvikings * Saga of the Volsungs * Rune Might: Secret Practices of the German Rune Magicians * The Vinland Saga * Rune Song (booklet & tape) *Teutonic Magic * Beowulf Click here for more details. *The Agricola and the Germania * History of the Danes Saxo Grammaticus Contemporary Works Click here for more details. * Book of Troth Germanic Religion and History * The Odin Brotherhood * True Hearth Scandinavian * tyr * Way of the Heathen * Cultural Atlas of the Viking World * Dictionary of Northern Mythology * Witchdom of the True | |||