What to Read After The Vikings
Readers who loved The Vikings by Else Roesdahl keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Vikings is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Vikings
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas)
The sagas of Icelanders
Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings
The Poetic Edda
Egil's Saga
Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
Viking age Iceland
Eirik the Red
Norse Mythology
Vikings
The Far Traveler
The Vinland Sagas
The Anglo-Saxons
Women in the Viking age
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000
Anglo-Saxon England
The Poetic Edda
Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Eyrbyggja Saga
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Vikings
History of the Goths
Gods and myths of the Viking age
Myth and Religion of the North