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Fires of Winter (Haardrad Viking Family, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as viking)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,696 ratings — published 1980
A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as viking)
avg rating 3.90 — 202,683 ratings — published 2024
Hearts Aflame (Haardrad Viking Family, #2)
by (shelved 106 times as viking)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,189 ratings — published 1987
Surrender My Love (Haardrad Viking Family, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as viking)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,039 ratings — published 1994
The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as viking)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,821 ratings — published 2023
Season of the Sun (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as viking)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,101 ratings — published 1991
Sky in the Deep (Sky and Sea, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as viking)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,726 ratings — published 2018
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as viking)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,200 ratings — published 2004
Golden Surrender (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as viking)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,668 ratings — published 1985
Dream of Me / Believe in Me (Viking & Saxon #1-2)
by (shelved 49 times as viking)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,981 ratings — published 2001
Lord of Hawkfell Island (Viking, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as viking)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,067 ratings — published
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as viking)
avg rating 4.10 — 347,270 ratings — published 2017
The Viking's Woman (Viking, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as viking)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,965 ratings — published 1990
The Reluctant Viking (Viking I, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as viking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,941 ratings — published 1994
A Curse Carved in Bone (Saga of the Unfated, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as viking)
avg rating 3.90 — 74,907 ratings — published 2025
The Very Virile Viking (Viking II, #3)
by (shelved 37 times as viking)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,759 ratings — published 2003
The Last Viking (Viking II, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as viking)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,565 ratings — published 1998
The Outlaw Viking (Viking I, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as viking)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,682 ratings — published 1995
Lord of Raven's Peak (Viking, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as viking)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,475 ratings — published 1994
Come Back to Me (Viking & Saxon, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as viking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,219 ratings — published 2001
Stolen by the Wolves (Viking Omegaverse, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as viking)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,987 ratings — published 2021
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as viking)
avg rating 4.32 — 63,371 ratings — published 2006
Viking! (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as viking)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,087 ratings — published 1998
North of the Stars (In Love and War #1)
by (shelved 30 times as viking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,495 ratings — published 2021
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as viking)
avg rating 4.18 — 111,237 ratings — published 2021
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as viking)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,328 ratings — published 2020
Edin's Embrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as viking)
avg rating 3.76 — 442 ratings — published 1989
The Bone King and the Starling (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as viking)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,585 ratings — published 2025
God's Eye (Northwomen Sagas, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as viking)
avg rating 4.06 — 752 ratings — published
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as viking)
avg rating 4.36 — 53,884 ratings — published 2007
My Fair Viking (Viking I, #6)
by (shelved 27 times as viking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,527 ratings — published 2002
Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
by (shelved 27 times as viking)
avg rating 4.33 — 46,687 ratings — published 2007
Viking in Love (Viking I, #8)
by (shelved 27 times as viking)
avg rating 4.01 — 997 ratings — published 2010
Viking's Prize (Medieval Heroes #2)
by (shelved 26 times as viking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,424 ratings — published 1994
The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
by (shelved 26 times as viking)
avg rating 4.31 — 42,053 ratings — published 2009
Dream of Me (Viking & Saxon #1)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 3.96 — 797 ratings — published 2001
The Norse King's Daughter (Viking I, #10)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 3.95 — 705 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Wolves (Viking, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,263 ratings — published 1993
Lord of Falcon Ridge (Viking, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,912 ratings — published 1995
Truly, Madly Viking (Viking II, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,464 ratings — published 2000
The Blue Viking (Viking I, #5)
by (shelved 25 times as viking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,264 ratings — published 2001
Curse of Shadows and Thorns (The Broken Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as viking)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,849 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as viking)
avg rating 4.36 — 50,831 ratings — published 2024
Viking Heat (Viking II, #9)
by (shelved 23 times as viking)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,089 ratings — published 2009
The Viking Takes a Knight (Viking I, #9)
by (shelved 23 times as viking)
avg rating 3.97 — 763 ratings — published 2010
God of Vengeance (The Rise of Sigurd, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as viking)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,398 ratings — published 2014
The Long Ships (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as viking)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,375 ratings — published 1941
Blood Eye (Raven, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as viking)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,601 ratings — published 2009
Odinn's Child (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as viking)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,423 ratings — published 2005
Wet & Wild (Viking II, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as viking)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,379 ratings — published 2004
“But the attitude that Viking society held up as the ideal one was a heroic stoicism. In the words of archaeologist Neil Price, "The outcome of our actions, our fate, is already decided and therefore does not matter. What is important is the manner of our conduct as we go to meet it." You couldn't change what was going to happen to you, but you could at least face it with honor and dignity. The best death was to go down fighting, preferably with a smile on your lips. Life is precarious by nature, but this was especially true in the Viking Age, which made this fatalism, and stoicism in the face of it, especially poignant.
The model of this ideal was Odin's amassing an army in Valhalla in preparation for Ragnarok. He knew that Fenrir, "the wolf", was going to murder him one way or another. Perhaps on some level he hoped that by gathering all of the best warriors to fight alongside him, he could prevent the inevitable. But deep down he knew that his struggle was hopeless - yet he determined to struggle just the same, and to die in the most radiant blaze of glory he could muster.”
― The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
The model of this ideal was Odin's amassing an army in Valhalla in preparation for Ragnarok. He knew that Fenrir, "the wolf", was going to murder him one way or another. Perhaps on some level he hoped that by gathering all of the best warriors to fight alongside him, he could prevent the inevitable. But deep down he knew that his struggle was hopeless - yet he determined to struggle just the same, and to die in the most radiant blaze of glory he could muster.”
― The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
“Visvaviking (Sonnet 1504)
Smiling through my martyrdom
I took the world into my care.
Ice cold currents of catastrophe
are no match for my asgardian dare.
Swimming through a tsunami of sneer,
I found my peace in world's welfare.
Beware, o merchants of malice and hate,
Better not force your fate out of layer!
Crushing all memorials of invading scourge,
Parting the ocean to deliver from divide,
Rushing as apocalypse to right the wrong,
I am Sapiothunder to all genocidal pride.
I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
― World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
Smiling through my martyrdom
I took the world into my care.
Ice cold currents of catastrophe
are no match for my asgardian dare.
Swimming through a tsunami of sneer,
I found my peace in world's welfare.
Beware, o merchants of malice and hate,
Better not force your fate out of layer!
Crushing all memorials of invading scourge,
Parting the ocean to deliver from divide,
Rushing as apocalypse to right the wrong,
I am Sapiothunder to all genocidal pride.
I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
― World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
