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Books & Reading List
One of the most commonly asked questions that we get is:
"What kind of books do you recommend by authors who are inclusive and/or authoritative about Heathenry, and who do not cater to extremism (in ideology, organization, or finance)?"
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Books listed alphabetically by title.
Heathen Essentials
"A Practical Heathen's Guide to Ásatrú"
by Patricia M. Lafayllve
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"Ásatrú for Beginners:
A Modern Heathen's Guide to the Ancient Northern Way"
by Mathias Nordvig, Ph.D
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"Essential Ásatrú"
by Diana Paxson
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"The First Book of Urglaawe Myths"
by Robert L. Schreiwer
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"Travels Through Middle Earth: The Path of a Saxon Pagan"
by Alaric Albertsson
Academic Studies
"Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings"
by Neil Price
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"Dictionary of Northern Mythology"
by Rudolf Simek
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"Gods and Myths of Northern Europe"
by H.R. Ellis Davidson
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"The Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English Dictionary"
by Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Volundr Lars Agnarsson
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"The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia"
by Neil Price
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"Viking Age Iceland"
by Jesse Byock
On Extremism
"American Heathen: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement"
by Jennifer Snook
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"Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism"
by Mattias Gardell
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"Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism"
by Stefanie von Schnurbein
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"Paganism and Its Discontents: Enduring Problems of Racialized Identity"
by Holli S. Emore and Jonathan M. Leader
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"The Occult Roots of Nazism:
The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890 - 1935"
by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
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Manuscript Translations
(Alphabetical by translator)
"Sagas of Icelanders"
by Jane Smiley (Preface), et. al
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The Poetic Edda
Carolyne Larrington -
Henry Adams Bellows -
Jackson Crawford -
Lee M. Hollander -
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The Prose Edda
Anthony Faulkes -
Jesse Byock -
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Völsunga Saga
Jackson Crawford -
Jesse Byock -
Beowulf
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Maria Dahvana Headley
- Seamus Heaney
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Hávamál
- Ben Waggoner
- Jackson Crawford
- Olive Bray
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Heimskringla
- Lee M. Hollander
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Hrólf Kraki Saga
- Jesse Byock
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