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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


Bandamanna saga
Edited by Hallvard Magerøy
1981, repr. 2006

ISBN 978 0 903521 15 4


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


Egils saga
Edited by Bjarni Einarsson
2003

ISBN 978 0 903521 60 4


Egils Saga (paperback)
Edited by Bjarni Einarsson
2003

ISBN 978 0 903521 54 3


The Fourth Grammatical Treatise
Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross and Jonas Wellendorf
2014

ISBN 978 0 903521 90 1


Grottasöngr
Edited and translated by Clive Tolley
2008

ISBN 978 0 903521 78 9


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


Snorri Sturluson: Edda. Skáldskaparmál
Edited by Anthony Faulkes
1998

ISBN 978 0 903521 34 5


Snorri Sturluson: Edda. Háttatal
Edited by Anthony Faulkes
2007

ISBN 978 0 903521 68 0


Stories from Sagas of Kings
Introduction, notes and glossary by Anthony Faulkes
2007

ISBN 978 0 903521 72 7


The Uppsala Edda: DG 11 4to
Edited by Heimir Pálsson
2012

ISBN 978 0 903521 85 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 I: Grammar
By Michael Barnes
2007

ISBN 978 0 903521 65 9


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 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


Heimskringla. An Introduction
Diana Whaley
1991

ISBN 978 0 903521 23 9


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


Old Norse Made New
Edited by David Clark and Carl Phelpstead
2007

ISBN 978 0 903521 76 5


The Runic Inscriptions of the Isle of Man
Michael P. Barnes
2019

ISBN 978 0 903521 97 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


Thor the Wind-Raiser and the Eyrarland Image
Richard Perkins
2001

ISBN 978 0 903521 52 9


The Vikings in Brittany
Neil S. Price
1989, repr. 2013

ISBN 978 0 903521 22 2


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


1117 in Iceland and England
Peter Foote
2003

ISBN 978 0 903521 59 8


Canute and his Empire
G. N. Garmonsway
1964


The Epiphany in Runic Art
Dag Strömbäck
1970


Haraldr the Hard-Ruler and his Poets
Gabriel Turville-Petre
1968


Patronymics in Denmark and England
John Kousgård Sørensen
1982


Poetical Inspiration in Old Norse and Old English Poetry
Anthony Faulkes
1997

ISBN 978 0 903521 32 1


Skaldic Verse and Anglo-Saxon History
Alistair Campbell
1971


Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland
Guðrún Nordal
2003

ISBN 978 0 903521 58 1


The Vikings and their Victims. The Verdict of the Names
Gillian Fellows-Jensen
1995, repr. 1998

ISBN 0 903521 39 3


The Vikings in Wales
Henry Loyn
1977

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


Birds of Omen in Shetland
Jessie M. E. Saxby
1893


Caithness & Sutherland Records
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1909-1928


The Conversion of Iceland
Dag Strömbäck; translated by Peter Foote
1975


The Fljotsdale Saga and The Droplaugarsons
Translated by Jean Young and Eleanor Haworth
1990


Færeyinga Saga (The Saga of the Faroe Islanders)
Translated by Anthony Faulkes
2016


Gunnlaugssaga ormstungu
Edited by Peter Foote and Randolph Quirk
1974


Hemings þáttr
Translated by Anthony Faulkes
2016


Icelandic Journal
Alice Selby. Edited by A. R. Taylor
1974

ISBN 978 0 903521 04 8


The Icelandic Rune-Poem
R. I. Page
1999


Lejre. Ein mythologischer Führer
Matthias Egeler
2017


The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Translated by W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson
1902


The Life of Gudmund the Good, Bishop of Hólar
Translated by G. Turville-Petre and E. S. Olszewska
1942


Nine Norse Studies
Gabriel Turville-Petre
1972


Index to Old-Lore Series
Compiled by J. A. B. Townsend


Index to Old-Lore Miscellany
J. A. B. Townsend
1992

ISBN 978 0 903521 26 0


Old-Lore Miscellany I
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1907-8


Old-Lore Miscellany II
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1909


Old-Lore Miscellany III
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1910


Old-Lore Miscellany IV
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1911


Old-Lore Miscellany V
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1912


Old-Lore Miscellany VI
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1913


Old-Lore Miscellany VII
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1914


Old-Lore Miscellany VIII
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston
1920


Old-Lore Miscellany IX
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston
1933


Old-Lore Miscellany X
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston
1935-46


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


Orkney and Shetland Records Volume III
Collected and edited by Alfred W. Johnston and Amy Johnston


Proceedings of the First International Saga Conference
Edited by Peter Foote, Hermann Pálsson and Desmond Slay
1973


Proceedings of the Sixth Viking Congress
Edited by Peter Foote and Dag Strömbäck
1971


Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress
Edited by Bo Almqvist and David Greene
1976


The Story Of Raud And His Sons
Translated by J. E. Turville-Petre
1947


Rauðúlfs þáttr
Edited with translation by Anthony Faulkes
2011


Ruins of the Saga Time
Thorsteinn Erlingsson
1899


The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Edited by P. G. Foote; translated by R. Quirk
1957


The Saga Of King Heidrek The Wise
Translated by Christopher Tolkien
1960


The Saga of the Jomsvikings
Edited by N. F. Blake
1962


The Viking Age in the Isle of Man
Edited by Christine Fell, Peter Foote, James Graham-Campbell and Robert Thomson
1983


Volsunga Saga
Edited and translated by R. G. Finch
1965

PUBLICATIONS DISTRIBUTED BY THE VIKING SOCIETY


Goðorð og goðorðsmenn
Lúðvík Ingvarsson
1986


Í leit að konungi. Konungsmynd íslenskra konunga
Ármann Jakobsson
1997

ISBN 978 9979 54 208 7


Letters from Iceland 1936
Jean Young
1992

ISBN 978 0 7044 1247 7


The Runic Inscriptions of Maeshowe, Orkney
Michael P. Barnes
1994

ISBN 978 91 506 1042 0


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


Staður í nýjum heimi. Konungasagan Morkinskinna
Ármann Jakobsson
2002

ISBN 978 9979 54 522 4