What to Read After The Poetic Edda
Readers who loved The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Poetic Edda 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 Poetic Edda
Edda
The Norse Myths
Inanna
Myths of the Norsemen
Runelore
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas)
Taking up the Runes
Viking age Iceland
Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Norse Mythology
Myth and Religion of the North
The Vikings
Hrafnkel's saga and other Icelandic stories
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
The Vinland Sagas
The Doré illustrations for Dante's Divine comedy
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
The sagas of Icelanders
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)
The Satanic Bible
Drawing down the Moon
The Children of Húrin
Theogony