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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 Strömbäck: The Epiphany in runic art. 1970.

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

Brita Malmer: King Canute’s coinage in the northern countries. 1974.

Folke Ström: Níð, ergi and Old Norse moral attitudes. 1974.

Harry Loyn: The Vikings in Wales. 1977.

Ursula Dronke: The role of sexual themes in Njáls saga. 1981.

John Kousgard Sørensen: Patronymics in Denmark and England. 1982.

Raymond Page: “A most vile people”: early English historians on the Vikings. 1987.

Anthony 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.

Stefan Brink: Lady – bryti andLord and deigja. 2008.

Richard Perkins: The Verses in Eric the Red’s Saga. 2011.

SAGA-BOOK

Volume I (1895–97). Searchable version

Volume II (1898–1901). Searchable version

Volume III (1902–04). Searchable version

Volume IV (1905–06). Searchable version

Volume V (1907–08). Searchable version

Volume VI (1909–10). Searchable version

Volume VII (1911–12). Searchable version

Volume VIII (1913–14). Searchable version

Volume IX (1920–25). Searchable version

Volume X (1928–29). Searchable version

Volume XI (1934–36). Searchable version

Volume XII (1937–45). Searchable version

Volume XIII (1946–53). Searchable version

Volume XIV (1953–57). Searchable version

Volume XV (1957–61). Searchable version

Volume XVI (1962–65). Searchable version

Volume XVII (1966–69). Searchable version

Volume XVIII (1970–73). Searchable version

Volume XIX (1974–77). Searchable version

Volume XX (1978–81). Searchable version

Volume XXI (1982–85). Searchable version

Volume XXII (1986–89). Searchable version

Volume XXIII (1990–93). Searchable version

Volume XXIV (1994–97)

Volume XXV (1998–2001)

Volume XXVI (2002)

Volume XXVII (2003)

Volume XXVIII (2004)

Volume XXIX (2005)

Volume XXX (2006)

Volume XXXI (2007)

Volume XXXII (2008)

Volume XXXIII (2009)

Volume XXXIV (2010)

Volume XXXV (2011)

Volume XXXVI (2012)

Volume XXXVII (2013)

Volume XXXVIII (2014)

Volume XXXIX (2015)

Volume XL (2016)

Volume XLI (2017)

Volume XLII (2018)

Volume XLIII (2019)

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE

The Study of Old Icelandic: An Introduction to the Sources

Grammar

Reader. Facsimiles

Glossary and Index of Names

TEXT SERIES

Ágrip . Ed. M. J. Driscoll

Clemens saga. Edited and translated by Helen Carron

Einar Ólafur Sveinsson: Dating the Icelandic sagas

Einar Ólafur 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 lag. Translated and edited by Christine Peel

Guta saga. Ed. Christine Peel

Hávamál. Ed. David A. H. Evans

Hávamál. Glossary and Index. Compiled by Anthony Faulkes

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

A History of Norway and The Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr. Translated by Devra Kunin. Edited with an intro. and notes by Carl Phelpstead

Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Forspjallsljóð). Ed. Annette Lassen.

Íslendingabók. Kristni saga. The Book of the Icelanders. The Story of the Conversion. Translated by Siân Grønlie

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

The Saga of Bishop Thorlak. Translated with introduction and notes by Ármann Jakobson and D. Clark.

Dag Strömbäck: 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. Hreiðars þáttr. Orms þáttr. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. New edition, 2011.

Diana Whaley: Heimskringla. An Introduction

The Works of Sven Aggesen. Translated by Eric Christiansen

THE PROSE EDDA

Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. Unicode version

Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 1: Introduction, Text and Notes. 2: Glossary and Index of Names. Unicode version of Skáldskaparmál 1

Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edition, 2007.

The Uppsala Edda

Snorra Edda. Tr. Anthony Faulkes

The Fourth Grammatical Treatise. Ed. Margaret Clunies Ross and Jonas Wellendorf.

A newly discovered manuscript of Magnús Ólafsson’s Edda

Anthony Faulkes. Six papers on The Prose Edda:

Descent from the gods.

Edda.

The Genealogies and Regnal lists in a Manuscript in Resen’s Library.

Pagan Sympathy.

The Sources of Skáldskaparmál.

What was Viking Poetry for?

OTHER EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

Bandamanna saga. Ed. Hallvard Magerøy

Egils saga . Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. Map of Borgarfjǫrðr

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

The Fljotsdale Saga and The Droplaugarsons

Færeyinga saga (The Saga of the Faroe Islanders) . Tr. Anthony Faulkes

Grottasǫngr. Ed. Clive Tolley

Heimskringla I. Tr. Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes

Heimskringla I . Tr. Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edition

Heimskringla II. Tr. Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes

Heimskringla III . Tr. Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes

Hemings þáttr. Tr. Anthony Faulkes

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

Illuga saga. Ed. and tr. Philip Lavender

The Life and Death of Cormac the Scald. Tr. W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson

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

Páls Leizla. Ed. and tr. Dario Bullitta

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

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

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

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

Specimen Lexici Runici

Stories from Sagas of Kings . Ed. Anthony Faulkes

Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

Two Tales of Icelanders

Rauðúlfs þáttr:

Anthony Faulkes: Rauðúlfs þáttr. A Study. Supplementary note (2007)

Rauðúlfs þáttr, text and translation

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

STUDIES

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

Árni Björnsson: 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

Harðar saga introduction

Introductory Essays on Egils saga and Njáls saga

Making History

Birger Nerman: The Poetic Edda in the Light of Archæology

Ólafur Halldórsson: Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason

Ólafur Halldórsson: Text by Snorri Sturluson in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta

Old Norse Made New

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

Stefán 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

Anthony Faulkes: Miscellaneous articles and lectures:

‘The influence of the Latin Tradition on Snorri Sturluson’s writings.’

Last Rituals (review).

‘A New Medieval Carol Text?’

‘Outlaws in Medieval England and Iceland’.

‘Snorra Edda’ (Oxford Dictionary).

‘Snorri Sturluson’ (Viking World).

‘The Viking Mind’.

Elizabeth Jackson: Old Icelandic Truce Formulas (Tryggðamál).

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

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

Jean Young: Letters from Iceland 1936

Jessie M. E. Saxby: Birds of Omen in Shetland. With W. A. Clouston: Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Raven and the Owl

Thorsteinn Erlingsson: Ruins of the Saga Time.

W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson: A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland

Matthias Egeler: Lejre. Ein mythologischer Führer

Unpublished Stories and Translations

Icelandic Folk Tales

The Life and Works of James Easson, the Dundee People’s poet.

Faulkes CV & Publications

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 1–23

Orkney and Shetland Records I

Orkney and Shetland Records II

Orkney and Shetland Records III

Caithness & Sutherland Records

Old-Lore Miscellany 1

Old-Lore Miscellany 2

Old-Lore Miscellany 3

Old-Lore Miscellany 4

Old-Lore Miscellany 5

Old-Lore Miscellany6

Old-Lore Miscellany 7

Old-Lore Miscellany 8

Old-Lore Miscellany 9

Old-Lore Miscellany 10