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Edda by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $18.88$13.73The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.Over a period of twenty years, Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose EDDA as a textbook for young poets who... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: $48.28$33.12Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the... -
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson
RRP: $31.48$23.00For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300... -
The Viking Ship Gareth Williams 9780714123400
RRP: $20.98$14.70The Viking ship is one of the most iconic images of the Vikings and the longship in particular has been central to our understanding of the Viking Age. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to command the sea and their famous ships permittedthe... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $31.48$23.00Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this,... -
Secrets of the Viking Navigators: How the Vikings Used Their Amazing Sunstones and Other Techniques to Cross the Open Ocean by Leif K Karlsen 9780914025610
RRP: $32.55$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914025610Author Leif K KarlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Starpath PublicationsPublisher Starpath PublicationsWeight(grams) 322g -
A Short History of Finland by Jonathan Clements 9781913368654
RRP: $20.98$15.27The modern nation of Finland is the heir to centuries of history, as a wilderness at the edge of early Europe, a borderland of the Swedish empire, and a Grand Duchy of tsarist Russia. And, as Jonathan Clements' vivid, concise volume shows, it is a tale... -
Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II David Lampe 9781526760722
RRP: $31.48$23.33Adolf Hitler stated that after occupation Denmark would turn into a model protectorate'. Winston Churchill, meanwhile, maintained that the small country of (then) four million people would become the sadistic murderer's canary'. In the end, neither was... -
Nordic Model: Scandinavia Since 1945 by Mary Hilson
$60.42For a sparsely populated region on the edge of Europe, Scandinavia has attracted an unusual degree of interest during the twentieth century. The successes and failures of the famous 'Scandinavian' or 'Nordic' model in politics and policy continue to... -
The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt 9781350348912
RRP: $52.50$40.28THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the... -
The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 by Barbara E. Crawford
RRP: $42.00$30.35The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island and... -
The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth 9780691169293
RRP: $31.48$24.28The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to... -
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
RRP: $23.08$16.78Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and... -
Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630 1632 by Wolke, Lars Ericson 9781526749598
RRP: $52.50$37.59As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century Gustavus Adophus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years -between 1630 and 1632 -he turned... -
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908 by Emilie Demant Hatt
RRP: $56.60$32.40With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English... -
The Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $42.00$29.51This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an ancient people whose kings... -
History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen by Adam of Bremen 9780231125758
RRP: $63.00$48.91Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic... -
Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $52.50$39.69The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of... -
The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms by Marianne E. Kalinke 9781783167876
RRP: $73.48$60.96The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century, which has been preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, and which in early... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
RRP: $35.68$31.77From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North Robert Ferguson 9781781858950
RRP: $18.88$13.97The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia... -
Norway's Knitted Heritage: The History, Surprises, and Power of Traditional Nordic Sweater Patterns by Annemor Sundbø 9780764366154
RRP: $115.48$80.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764366154Author Annemor SundboFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Schiffer CraftPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 2177g -
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $52.50$39.69The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland... -
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 by Kimmo Rentola 9780300273618
RRP: $52.50$43.93A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as... -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
RRP: $58.04$54.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $25.18$18.19The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of... -
The Vikings: Classic Histories Series by Magnus Magnusson 9780750978583
RRP: $27.28$20.73The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a... -
The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire by Peter Englund
RRP: $54.58$53.34'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar... -
The Norns in Old Norse Mythology Karen Bek-Pedersen 9781780460352
RRP: $84.00$76.34The nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by norns and other beings like them in the relevant sources... -
Viking Clothing by Thor Ewing 9780752435879
RRP: $46.20$35.05Describing the different garments worn by women and men, this book looks at the aspects of cloth production - raw materials, production tools and techniques for woven and non-woven textiles, decorative textiles and embroidery. It also shows how much can... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: $39.88$27.17From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 David Campbell 9781472813244
RRP: $31.48$23.33The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million... -
The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey by Robert Ferguson 9781789544671
RRP: $20.98$15.37The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh air,... -
The Vikings Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Bergen) 9781942401896
$33.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401896Author Saebjorg Walaker NordeideFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland by Perttu Hakkinen
RRP: $52.50$34.63* Examines the significant figures and groups of Finland's occult world, including their esoteric practices and the secret societies to which they were connected * Investigates the relationship of nationalism and esotericism in Finland as well as the... -
Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art by Freyda Spira
RRP: $84.00$73.19Placing artists at the center of nineteenth-century Demark's dramatic cultural, political, and philosophical transformation, this publication explores their persistent national pride in a time of turmoil Though known as the Danish Golden Age,... -
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths R.I. Page 9780714123417
RRP: $27.28$18.54There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prejudiced observers (who saw the Vikings only as savage raiders) or the archaeological record, which tells us... -
Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination, and Magic Weiser Classics by Diana L. Paxson
RRP: $50.40$39.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637294Author Diana L. PaxsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation by James C. Russell 9780195104660
RRP: $81.88$81.61While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first... -
The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott
$27.43A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the international film of the same name. "A must-read .... Intrigue, suspense, and adventure."-The Norwegian American"I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could...