Fascinating book about Viking history A very interesting book that helps dismantle the stereotypical Viking image. Traditionally, the Viking Age is considered to be from the year 793, when Vikings attacked the monastery in Lindisfarne,…
My favorite travel guide for Scandinavia! Disclaimer: I have helped research this guide book. Experience a smorgasbord of Viking ships, brooding castles, and emerald fjords with Rick Steves! The book covers Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia.…
Get to know the Scandinavian culture. The Christian Science Monitor’s #1 Best Book of the Year. Get on the inside of Scandinavia. Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years,…
Lorelou, a French woman in her mid-20s from Provence region gets a job in Oslo, Norway. She is not too inspired by this Arctic country. Are Norwegian people as cold as their weather? She is…
With Fridtjof Nansen towards the North Pole A must read for anyone interested in Polar explorations. In this book you follow the famous Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen, and his crew of twelve, deliberately sailing their ship…
The story of the Kon-Tiki is one of my favorite “adventure” books, and is a classic that has been translated to more than 70 languages around the world. Through Thor’s own eyes you get to…
Anders Winroth is born in Sweden and a professor of medieval history at the University of Oslo and previously taught in the same field at Yale University. What I enjoy about this book is how…
Of all the Old Norse King’s sagas, Heimskringla is the best known. It was written by the Icelandic poet and history writer Snorre Sturlason around the year 1230. In Heimskringla you find a collection of…
I’ve been following Jackson Crawford on YouTube for years, and I’m very impressed with his expertise in Norse language and myth. This book is a translation of Håvamål, a collection of Old Norse poems from…
A fascinating book by Arab envoy Ibn Fadlan, who in 922 AD encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his travel reports he gives astonishing descriptions about…