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Assigned texts are available through a local, independent, not-for-profit bookseller: Buffalo Street Books (607 273-5055 ext. 4, in the Dewitt Mall at 215 N Cayuga Street ) -- with one exception (see below). They are not available at the Cornell Store. Books bought through Buffalo Street Books are tax-free and, if ordered in advance, will be delivered free to class on 26 January 2012 . This set-up helps support the only independent bookstore in the greater Ithaca area (a good thing for a community of readers and thinkers and for small presses and local authors), combats the homogenising effect of corporate big box stores, and channels a significant portion of the money you spend on books into the local economy.
The only book not sold through Buffalo Street Books is Egil's Saga, which is out of print & available as a custom-printed coursepacket from the Cornell Store.
Regardless of how you choose to acquire the books, please ensure you have access to the readings by the dates required; many are also available online, e.g. via AbeBooks or alibris) :
• primary sources
Egil's Saga, tr. Christine Fell & John Lucas (1975) [coursepacket]
The Vinland Sagas, tr. Keneva Kunz (1997)
Angus A Somerville & R Andrew McDonald, The Viking Age: A Reader (2010)
• secondary literature
Else Roesdahl, The Vikings , rev. edn. (1998)
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (1999)
Jesse L. Byock, Viking Age Iceland (2001)
• writing aid
Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students, 2nd edn (2008)
Recommended texts – tried & tested additional resources you may wish to own (may also be ordered, tax free, via Buffalo Street Books, or consulted in the library, at Uris reserve; a couple are available online) :
• general background on medieval history
Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages , 3rd edn (2009)
• writing & style guides
William Strunk, Jr., & E.B. White, The Elements of Style , 4th edn (2000)
Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 6th edn (2011)
• aspects of Scandinavian history
Peter Foote & David Wilson, The Viking Achievement , rev. edn (1980; out of print)
Gwyn Jones, History of the Vikings , rev. edn (1984)
Kirsten Hastrup, Culture and History in Medieval Iceland (1985; out of print)
William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (1990) [also e-book]
Judith Jesch, Women in the Viking Age (1991)
John Haywood (ed.), Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (1995)
Jenny Jochens, Women in Old Norse Society (1995) [also e-book]
P.H. Sawyer (ed.), Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (1997)
W.W. Fitzhugh & E.I. Ward (ed.), Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (2000)
Andy Orchard, Cassell's Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend , rev. edn (2003; out of print)
Dawn Hadley, The Vikings in England : Settlement, Society and Culture (2006)
Stefan Brink & Neil Price (ed.), The Viking World (2008)
Links to other assigned readings:
Morten Axboe, “Danish Kings and Dendrochronology: Archaeological Insights into the Early History of the Danish State,” in After Empire: Towards an Ethnology of Europe’s Barbarians, ed. G. Ausenda (1995: 217-51; esp. 217-38)
Baruch Fischhoff, “For those Condemned to Study the Past,” in Judgment under Uncertainty, ed. D. Kahneman, P. Slovic & A. Tversky (1982: 335-51)
John L. Gaddis, The Landscape of History, cap. 3 (2002: 35-52)
Eric Christiansen, The Norsemen in the Viking Age, Introduction (2002: 1-9)
Jesse L. Byock, Viking Age Iceland, cap. 1 (2001: 5-24)
Birgit & Peter Sawyer, Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation (1993: 1-38, 57-79, 144-65, 214-41)
Judith Jesch, Women in the Viking Age, cap. 2 (1991: 42-74)
Adolf Friðriksson & Orri Vésteinsson, “Creating a Past: A Historiography of the Settlement of Iceland,” in Contact, Continuity, and Collapse, ed. J.H. Barrett (2003: 139-61)
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Oren Falk, Associate Professor
Department of History, Cornell University
Page last updated on: 24 April, 2012