The Icelandic Eddas and Sagas Page

Eddas
The Elder or Poetic Edda . Lee M. Hollander, Translator, The Poetic Edda. Texas, 1962;
Poems of the Vikings. Translated by Patricia Terry with an introduction by Charles W. Dunn. Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. But see also the new translation by Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda. Oxford, 1996.
The Younger or Prose Edda. Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology. Selected and Translated by Jean I. Young. California, 1964.
Sagas
Snorre Sturlason ( 1179-1241 ), Heimskringla, or The Lives of the Norse Kings. Edited with notes by Erling Monsen and translated into English with the assistance of A.H. Smith. Reprint, Dover, 1990.
Heimskringla On Line
Snorri Sturluson, King Harald's Saga, Harald Hardradi of Norway. Translated with an introduction by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson. Penguin, 1966. A part of the Heimskringla.
Most of the sagas cannot be attributed to authors, and I list the following in no particular order. First are the Penguin Sagas translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson :
Egil's Saga, 1976. Another Egil translated by Christine Fell, Everyman, 1975.
Eirik's Saga, In The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, 1965.
Eyrbyggja Saga, 1989.
Laxdæla Saga, 1969.
Njal's Saga, 1960.
Orkneyinga Saga, 1981.
Seven Viking Romances, 1985.

Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories. Translated with an introduction by Hermann Pálsson. Penguin, 1971.
Njál's Saga. Translated with introduction and notes by Carl Bayerschmidt and Lee M. Hollander. Twayne, 1955. The Saga of Njal.
Kevin Crossley-Holland, in his collection, The Norse Myths ( Pantheon, 1980), has retold a number of stories from the above-named works. This book has an introduction, notes and a bibliography.

Related Studies
Johannes Brøndsted, The Vikings. Penguin, 1965.
Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power. California, 1988.
H.R. Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. Penguin, 1964.
James Graham-Campbell, Editor, Cultural Atlas of the Viking World. Facts on File, 1994.
Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings. Oxford, 1968.
The Norse Mythology Page
R.I. Page, Norse Myths. Texas, 1990.
R.I. Page, Runes. California, 1987.
Else Roesdahl, The Vikings. Translated by Susan M. Margeson and Kirsten Williams. Penguin, 1991.

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