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DOROTHEA COKE MEMORIAL LECTURES

G. N. Garmonsway: Canute and his empire. 1964.

Sven B. F. Jansson: Swedish Vikings in England: the evidence of the rune stones. 1966

Gabriel Turville-Petre: Haraldr the Hard-Ruler and his poets. 1968.

Dag StršmbŠck: The Epiphany in runic art. 1970.

Alistair Campbell: Skaldic verse and Anglo-Saxon history. 1971.

Brita Malmer: King CanuteÕs coinage in the northern countries. 1974.

Folke Stršm: N’Ý, ergi and Old Norse moral attitudes. 1974. 20p.

Harry Loyn: The Vikings in Wales. 1977. 22p.

Ursula Dronke: The role of sexual themes in Nj‡ls saga. 1981.

John Kousgard S¿rensen: Patronymics in Denmark and England. 1982.

Raymond Page: ÒA most vile peopleÓ: early English historians on the Vikings. 1987.

Faulkes: Poetical Inspiration in Old Norse and Old English Poetry. 1997.

G. Fellows-Jensen: The Vikings and their Victims. The Verdict of the Names. 1995, repr. 1998.

P. Foote: 1117 in Iceland and England. 2003.

G. Nordal: Skaldic Versifying and Social Discrimination in Medieval Iceland. 2003.

 

SAGA-BOOK

Volume I:1 (1895)

Volume I:2 (1896)

Volume I:3 (1897)

Volume II:1 (1898)

Volume II:2 (1899)

Volume II:3 (1901)

Volume III:1 (1902)

Volume III:2 (1903)

Volume III:3 (1904)

Volume XV:1Ð2 (1957Ð9)

Volume XV:3 (1960) = W. E. D. Allen: The Poet and the Spae-Wife

Volume XV:4 (1961)

Volume XVIII:3 (1972) = R. T. Farrell: Beowulf, Swedes and Geats

Volume XIX:1 (1974) = Alice Selby: Icelandic Journal

Volume XXII:6 (1989) = Neil S. Price: The Vikings in Brittany

Volume XXIII:5 (1992)

Volume XXIII:6Ð7 (1993)

Volume XXIV:1 (1994)

Volume XXIV:2Ð3 (1995)

Volume XXIV:4 (1996)

Volume XXIV:5 (1997)

Volume XXV:1 (1998)

Volume XXV:2 (1999)

Volume XXV:3 (2000)

Volume XXV:4 (2001)

Volume XXVI (2002)

Volume XXVII (2003)

Volume XXVIII (2004)

Volume XXIX (2005)

Volume XXX (2006)

Volume XXXI (2007)

 

 

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE

Grammar

Reader

Glossary and Index of Names

 

TEXT SERIES

çgrip. Ed. M. J. Driscoll

Clemens saga. Edited and translated by Helen Carron

Einar îlafur Sveinsson: Dating the Icelandic sagas

Einar îlafur Sveinsson: The Folk-Stories of Iceland

Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary. Ed. Kellinde Wrightson

Gunnlaugssaga ormstungu. Ed. Peter G. Foote and Randolph Quirk

Guta saga. Ed. Christine Peel

H‡vam‡l. Ed. David A. H. Evans

H‡vam‡l. Glossary and Index. Compiled by Anthony Faulkes

Hervarar saga ok HeiÝreks. Ed. G. Turville-Petre

A History of Norway and The Passion and Miracles of the Blessed îl‡fr. Translated by Devra Kunin. Edited with an introduction and notes by Carl Phelpstead

êslendingab—k. Kristni saga. The Book of the Icelanders. The Story of the Conversion. Translated by Sin Gr¿nlie

Richard Perkins: Thor the Wind-raiser and the Eyrarland Image. Frontispiece

Dag StršmbŠck: The Conversion of Iceland

Theodoricus Monachus: The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings. Translated and annotated by David and Ian McDougall

G. Turville-Petre: Nine Norse Studies

Two Icelandic Stories. Ed. Anthony Faulkes

Diana Whaley: Heimskringla. An Introduction

The Works of Sven Aggesen. Translated by Eric Christiansen

 

THE PROSE EDDA

Prologue and Gylfaginning.  Ed. Anthony Faulkes

Sk‡ldskaparm‡l. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 1: Introduction, Text and Notes. 2: Glossary and Index of Names

H‡ttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes

Anthony Faulkes: six papers on The Prose Edda.

Descent from the gods.

Edda.

The Genealogies and Regnal lists in a Manuscript in ResenÕs Library.

Pagan Sympathy.

The Sources of Sk‡ldskaparm‡l.

What was Viking Poetry for?

 

OTHER EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

Bandamanna saga. Ed. Hallvard Mager¿y

Egils saga. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. Map of BorgarfjÄrÝr

The Elder or Poetic Edda. Part 1. The Mythological Poems. Tr. Olive Bray

The Icelandic Rune-Poem. Ed. R. I. Page

The Life and Death of Cormac the Scald. Tr. W. G. Collingwood and J—n Stef‡nsson

The Life of Gudmund the Good. Tr. G Turville-Petre and E. S. Olszewska

The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue. Ed. R. Quirk

The Saga of King HeiÝrek the Wise. Ed. Christopher Tolkien

The Saga of the Jomsvikings. Ed. N. F. Blake

The Saga of the Volsungs. Ed. R. G. Finch

Stories from Sagas of Kings. Ed. Anthony Faulkes

The Story of RauÝ and his Sons. Tr. J. E. Turville-Petre

 

STUDIES

W. E. D. Allen: The Poet and the Spae-Wife = Saga-Book XV:3 (1960)

Anthony Faulkes: Rauݜlfs ߇ttr. A Study. Supplementary note (2007)

çrni Bjšrnsson: Wagner and the Volsungs

R. T. Farrell: Beowulf, Swedes and Geats = Saga-Book XVIII:3 (1972)

First International Saga Conference 1971

Peter G. Foote: The Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle in Iceland

Introductory Essays on Egils saga and Nj‡ls saga

Birger Nerman: The Poetic Edda in the Light of Arch¾ology

îlafur Halld—rsson: Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of îl‡fr Tryggvason

îlafur Halld—rsson: Text by Snorri Sturluson in îl‡fs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta

Neil S. Price: The Vikings in Brittany  = Saga-Book XXII:6 (1989)

Alan S. C. Ross: The Terfinnas and Beormas of Ohthere

Seventh Viking Congress 1973

Sixth Viking Congress 1969

Stef‡n Karlsson: The Icelandic Language

Knut Stjerna: Essays on Questions Connected with the Old English Poem of Beowulf

The Viking Age in the Isle of Man (Ninth Viking Congress 1981)

Viking Revaluations

 

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

Alice Selby: Icelandic Journal = Saga-Book XIX:1 (1974)

Jean Young. Letters from Iceland 1936

J. A. B. Townsend: Index to Old-Lore Miscellany

J. A. B. Townsend: Index to Old-Lore Series

J. A. B. Townsend: Index to Saga-Book volumes 1Ð23