Reading List

Modern Sources

•Culture of the Teutons- Vilhelm Grönbech

•We Are Our Deeds- Eric Wodening

•The Road to Hel- Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

•Gods and Myths of Northern Europe- Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

•The Tradition of Household Spirits- Claude Lecouteux

•A Piece of Horse Liver- Jon Hnefill Adalsteinsson

•Lady with a Mead Cup - Michael J. Enright

•The Sacred and the Profane - Mircea Eliade

•The One-eyed God- Kris Kershaw

•The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity - James C. Russell

•The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture– Paul C. Bauschatz

•The Gift: From And Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies– Marcel Mauss

•A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism- J.M Greer

•A Million and One Gods– Page duBois

•The Meadhall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England– Stephen Pollington

•The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England– Stephen Pollington

•Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices- Claude Lecouteux

•Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind- Claude Lecouteux

•Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda, and the Cult of the Matrons- Phillip A. Shaw

•Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo- Mary Douglas

Classical Sources (The Lore)

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Beowulf

Egils Saga

Erik the Red's Saga

Germania by Tacitus

Gesta Danorum

Grettirs Saga

Heimskringla

Hrafnkells Saga

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness

Jomsvikinga Saga

Laxdaela Saga

Njals Saga

The Poetic Edda

The Prose Edda

The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw

Volsunga Saga

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