Bibliography

 Primary Sources

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Trans. Dorothy Whitelock, David C. Douglas, and Susie I. Tucker. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1961.

The Annals of Ulster. Edited by Pádraig Bambury and Stephen Beechinor. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100001A/index.html. 

Grammaticus, Saxo. Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes. Edited by Karsten Friis-Jensen. Translated by Peter Fisher. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2015. 

The War of Gaedhill with the Gaill or The Invasion of Ireland by the Danes and Other Norsemen.

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

Secondary Sources 

Ables, Richard. "English Logistics and Military Administration 871-1066: the Impact of The Viking Wars," in Military Aspects of Scandinavian Society in a European Perspective, AD 1-1300, 1997. Retrieved from https://deremilitari.org/2013/07/english-logistics-and-military-administration-871-1066-the-impact-of-the-viking-wars/. 

Biddle, Martin, and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle. “Repton and the ‘Great Heathen Army’”, in Vikings and the Danelaw: Select Papers from the Thirteenth Viking Congress. Edited by James Graham-Campbell. Oxford: Oxbow, 2001. 

Biddle, Martin, and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle. “Repton and the ‘Great Heathen Army’”, in Vikings and the Danelaw: Select Papers from the Thirteenth Viking Congress. Edited by James Graham-Campbell. Oxford: Oxbow, 2001.

Jones, Gwyn. History of the Vikings. Oxford: Oxford University Press,  1968.

Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1991.

Artwork: 

Dicksee, Frank. The Funeral of a Viking. 1893. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dicksee#/media/File:El_funeral_de_un_vikingo,_por_Frank_Dicksee.jpg 

Fisher, John D. A Viking Playing Hnefatafl. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/f4niko/36353267265 

Goodwin, Albert. The Viking Sea Raiders. Retrieved from https://www.myartprints.com/a/goodwin-albert/the-viking-sea-raiders.html 

Lovell, Tom. Norse Marauders Wreak Mayhem. Retrieved from https://www.military-art.com/mall/more.php?ProdID=2733 

Uknown.  Inside a Viking House. Retrieved from https://www.q-files.com/history/vikings/everyday-life-in-viking-times



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