Recommended Reading

Like most of this site, this section is far from exhaustive. However, the books listed here are good starting points.

History Books

Richards, Julian D. Viking Age England. B. T. Batsford Ltd/English Heritage, London, 1991. ISBN 0-7134-6520-4.

Sawyer, Peter (ed). The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-820526-0.

Costume Books

Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. The Boydell Press, 2004. ISBN 1843830817.

Hald, Margrethe. Ancient Danish Textile from Bogs and Burials. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 1980. ISBN 87-480-0312-3.

Food

Cosman, Madeleine Pelner. Fabulous Feasts. George Braziller, Inc, 1989. ISBN 0-8076-0832-7.

Websites

Although the internet is not always to be trusted, I have found the sites below to be meticulously researched and documented.

Þóra Sharptooth's Website Information about early textiles and everyday life in the Viking age.

Viking Answer Lady A one-stop shop for Viking information.

A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910, 551 pp), by Geir T. Zoëga Handy for checking the meaning of those Old Norse words.

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