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Any of them to note?
I am aware of such works of the likes of Beowulf, Edda, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, any others out there?

>> No.4616130

>>4616113
How am I supposed to know? I don't read books.

>> No.4616131

OP just watched the first episode of S2 of Vikings

>> No.4616132

>>4616131
no

>> No.4616136

>>4616131
I will admit, I watched it last night, but that's besides the point. I've been interested in Viking history/'literature' for years, just never been able to collect a decent enough list of epics I should check out...

>> No.4616144

>>4616136
Legitimate viking literature is scarce. You're better off looking for Viking-themed historical fiction.

>> No.4616146

>>4616144
Viking-themed historical fiction, most often, are terrible...

>> No.4616176

>>4616146
Indeed, but there are some exceptions. Bernward Cornwell's books about viking danes vs britons are pretty good. The Long Ships, too, is good. As for historic literary shit about vikings, OP you pretty much mentioned the majority of them.

>> No.4616179

The Icelandic Sagas, Egil's, Burnt Njall's, Vinland saga, etc.

Saga of the Volsungs. The Nibelungen is a more continental (german as opposed to nordic) and 'high medieval' of the same origin.

>> No.4616184

>>4616176

Not britons, anglo-saxons/english. But yes, the series is a good fictional account of the first viking invasion and danelaw England, and of the reconquest by the badass Alfred The Great. Thaet was god cyning.