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EDITIONS
Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum: A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway
Edited and translated by M. J. Driscoll
1995
ISBN 978 0 903521 27 7
The Bearded Bride. A Critical Edition of Þrymlur
Edited and translated by Lee Colwill and Haukur Þorgeirsson
2020
ISBN 978 0 903521 98 7
Clemens saga. The Life of St Clement of Rome
Edited and translated by Helen Carron
2005
ISBN 978 0 903521 67 3
Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary. Drápa af Maríu grát. Vitnisvísur af Maríu. Maríuvísur I–III
Edited and translated by Kellinde Wrightson
2001
ISBN 978 0 903521 46 8
The Fourth Grammatical Treatise
Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross and Jonas Wellendorf
2014
ISBN 978 0 903521 90 1
Guta saga: The History of the Gotlanders
Edited and translated by Christine Peel
1999
ISBN 978 0 903521 44 4
Hávamál
Edited by D. A. H. Evans. With Glossary and Index compiled by Anthony Faulkes
1986-87 repr. 2017
ISBN 978 0 903521 95 6
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
With notes and glossary by Gabriel Turville-Petre. Introduction by Christoper Tolkien
1956, repr. 2006
ISBN 978 0 903521 11 6
Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Forspjallsljóð)
Edited with introduction, notes and translation by Annette Lassen
2011
ISBN 9780903521819
Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra. The saga of Illugi, Gríður’s Foster-son
Edited and translated by Philip Lavender
2015
ISBN 978 0 903521 91 8
Magnús Ólafsson of Laufás: Specimen Lexici Runici and Glossarium Priscæ Linguæ Danicæ
Edited by Anthony Faulkes and Gunnlaugur Ingólfsson
2010
ISBN 9780903521802
Páls leizla. The Vision of St Paul
Edited and translated by Dario Bullitta
2017
ISBN 978 0 903521 96 3
Snorri Sturluson: Edda. Prologue and Gylfaginning
Edited by Anthony Faulkes
2005
ISBN 978 0 903521 64 2
Stories from Sagas of Kings
Introduction, notes and glossary by Anthony Faulkes
2007
ISBN 978 0 903521 72 7
Two Icelandic Stories: Hreiðars þáttr, Orms þáttr
Edited by Anthony Faulkes
2011
ISBN 978 0 903521 73 4
Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider
Edited and translated by Jonathan Y. H. Hui
2021
ISBN 978 1 914070 00 6
TRANSLATIONS
A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr
Translated by Devra Kunin. Edited with introduction and notes by Carl Phelpstead
2001, repr. 2017
ISBN 978 0 903521 48 2
Bishops in Early Iceland
Translated by Theodore M. Andersson. Edited by Alison Finlay and Carl Phelpstead
2021
ISBN 978 1 914070 01 3
Book of Settlements: The Hauksbók Recension of Landnámabók
Translated by Matthias Egeler
2022
ISBN 978 1 914070 02 0
Guta lag. The Law of the Gotlanders
Translated and edited by Christine Peel
2009
ISBN 978 0 903521 79 6
Íslendingabók. Kristni saga. The Book of the Icelanders, The Story of the Conversion
Translated with introduction and notes by Siân Grønlie
2006
ISBN 978 0 903521 71 0
Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla I. The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason
Translated by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes
2016 Second edition
ISBN 978 0 903521 94 9
Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla II. Óláfr Haraldsson (the Saint)
Translated by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes
2014
ISBN 978 0 903521 89 5
Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla III. Magnús Óláfsson to Magnús Erlingsson
Translated by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes
2015
ISBN 978 0 903521 93 2
The Works of Sven Aggesen, Twelfth-Century Danish Historian
Translated with introduction and notes by Eric Christiansen
1992
ISBN 978 0 903521 24 6
Theodoricus monachus: Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium. An Account of the Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings
Translated and annotated by David and Ian McDougall, with introduction by Peter Foote
1998, repr. 2006
ISBN 978 0 903521 40 6
The Saga of Bishop Thorlak. Þorláks saga byskupa
Translated with introduction and notes by Ármann Jakobsson and David Clark
2013
ISBN 978-0-903521-88-8
Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas. The Saga of Gisli, The Saga of Grettir, The Saga of Hord
Translated by George Johnston and Anthony Faulkes. Edited and introduced by Anthony Faulkes
2004
ISBN 978 0 903521 66 6
TEXTBOOKS
A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part II: Reader
Edited by Anthony Faulkes
2011
ISBN 978 0 903521 83 3
A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part III: Glossary
Compiled by Anthony Faulkes, with 2 supplements compiled by Michael Barnes
2007
ISBN 978 0 903521 70 3
STUDIES
A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland
W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson. Edited by Matthias Egeler
2015
ISBN 978 0 903521 92 5
Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason
Ólafur Halldórsson
2000
ISBN 978 0 903521 47 5
The Death of Tidericus the Organist. Plague and Conspiracy Theory in Hanseatic Visby
Richard Cole
2020
ISBN 978 0 903521 99 4
The Folk-Stories of Iceland
Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. Revised by Einar G. Pétursson. Translated by B. Benedikz. Edited by A. Faulkes
2003
ISBN 978 0 903521 53 6
Introductory Essays on Egils saga and Njáls saga
Edited by John Hines and Desmond Slay
1992. Reprinted 2016
ISBN 978 0 903521 25 3
The Icelandic Language
Stefán Karlsson. Translated by Rory McTurk
2004, repr. 2013
ISBN 978 0 903521 61 1
Making History: Essays on the fornaldarsögur
Edited by Martin Arnold and Alison Finlay
2010
ISBN 978 0 903521 84 0
The Terfinnas and Beormas of Ohthere
Alan S. C. Ross, with an additional note by the author and an afterword by Michael Chesnutt
1940, repr. 1981
ISBN 978 0 903521 14 7
Text by Snorri Sturluson in Óláfs Saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
Ólafur Halldórsson
2001
ISBN 978 0 903521 49 9
Viking Revaluations. Viking Society Centenary Symposium 14–15 May 1992
Edited by Anthony Faulkes and Richard Perkins
1993
ISBN 978 0 903521 28 4
Wagner and the Volsungs. Sources of der Ring des Nibelungen
Árni Björnsson
2003
ISBN 978 0 903521 55 0
DOROTHEA COKE MEMORIAL LECTURES
Lord and Lady – Bryti and Deigja. Some Historical and Etymological Aspects of Family, Patronage and Slavery in Early Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England
Stefan Brink
2008
ISBN 978 0 903521 77 2
Poetical Inspiration in Old Norse and Old English Poetry
Anthony Faulkes
1997
ISBN 978 0 903521 32 1
Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland
Guðrún Nordal
2003
ISBN 978 0 903521 58 1
The Verses in Eric the Red’s Saga. And Again: Norse Visits to America
Richard Perkins
2011
ISBN 978 0 903521 87 1
The Vikings and their Victims. The Verdict of the Names
Gillian Fellows-Jensen
1995, repr. 1998
ISBN 0 903521 39 3
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Caithness & Sutherland Records
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1909-1928
The Life of Gudmund the Good, Bishop of Hólar
Translated by G. Turville-Petre and E. S. Olszewska
1942
Orkney and Shetland Records Volume I
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1907-1913
Orkney and Shetland Records Volume II
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1907-1942
Proceedings of the First International Saga Conference
Edited by Peter Foote, Hermann Pálsson and Desmond Slay
1973
The Viking Age in the Isle of Man
Edited by Christine Fell, Peter Foote, James Graham-Campbell and Robert Thomson
1983
PUBLICATIONS DISTRIBUTED BY THE VIKING SOCIETY
The Schemers and Víga-Glúm; Bandamanna Saga and Víga-Glúms Saga
Translated with introduction and notes by G. Johnston
1999
ISBN 978 0 88984 189 5