What to Read After The Poetic Edda
Readers who loved The Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson 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
Norse mythology
Hrafnkel's saga and other Icelandic stories
Myths of the Norsemen
The Vikings
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Viking age Iceland
The Vikings
Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Taking up the Runes
The sagas of Icelanders
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas)
Runelore
Kalevala
Egil's Saga
Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
The Mabinogion
The Nibelungenlied
The Tain
The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
The Vinland Sagas