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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
by (shelved 225 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,539 ratings — published 2004
Sky in the Deep (Sky and Sea, #1)
by (shelved 199 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,088 ratings — published 2018
A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.89 — 208,246 ratings — published 2024
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,732 ratings — published 2020
Fires of Winter (Haardrad Viking Family, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,780 ratings — published 1980
The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,256 ratings — published 2023
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
by (shelved 138 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.32 — 64,100 ratings — published 2006
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)
by (shelved 121 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,435 ratings — published 2007
The Long Ships (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,852 ratings — published 1941
Hearts Aflame (Haardrad Viking Family, #2)
by (shelved 104 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,247 ratings — published 1987
Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, #4)
by (shelved 102 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.33 — 47,223 ratings — published 2007
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,254 ratings — published 2017
Eaters of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.72 — 48,202 ratings — published 1976
The Burning Land (The Saxon Stories, #5)
by (shelved 92 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.31 — 42,537 ratings — published 2009
Blood Eye (Raven, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,649 ratings — published 2009
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
by (shelved 85 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,338 ratings — published 2011
The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)
by (shelved 79 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.37 — 31,954 ratings — published 2013
The Whale Road (Oathsworn, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,171 ratings — published 2007
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,418 ratings — published 2021
Surrender My Love (Haardrad Viking Family, #3)
by (shelved 74 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,073 ratings — published 1994
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,848 ratings — published 2014
The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)
by (shelved 70 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,068 ratings — published 2014
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,693 ratings — published 2018
Warrior of the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,382 ratings — published 2019
How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.92 — 60,615 ratings — published 2003
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,841 ratings — published 2021
The Sagas of Icelanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,309 ratings — published 1997
A Curse Carved in Bone (Saga of the Unfated, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,258 ratings — published 2025
The Vikings: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,748 ratings — published 2009
The Half-Drowned King (The Half-Drowned King, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,533 ratings — published 2017
Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)
by (shelved 57 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.42 — 26,620 ratings — published 2015
God of Vengeance (The Rise of Sigurd, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,442 ratings — published 2014
Odinn's Child (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,441 ratings — published 2005
Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.36 — 56,258 ratings — published 2024
The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)
by (shelved 50 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.43 — 25,233 ratings — published 2016
Season of the Sun (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,116 ratings — published 1991
A History of the Vikings (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,109 ratings — published 1968
Golden Surrender (Viking, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,680 ratings — published 1985
The Age of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,211 ratings — published 2014
The Girl the Sea Gave Back (Sky and Sea, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.57 — 17,235 ratings — published 2019
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,553 ratings — published 2024
Dream of Me / Believe in Me (Viking & Saxon #1-2)
by (shelved 45 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,985 ratings — published 2001
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,957 ratings — published 1270
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,329 ratings — published 1220
Curse of Shadows and Thorns (The Broken Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,208 ratings — published 2021
Odin's Wolves (Raven, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,877 ratings — published 2011
Sons of Thunder (Raven, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as vikings)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,309 ratings — published 2010
The Vikings (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,206 ratings — published 1987
Stolen by the Wolves (Viking Omegaverse, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as vikings)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,099 ratings — published 2021
“These great Nordic incursions were to result in the marginalization of the once semi-autonomous Pictish, English and North British Princedoms that had preceded the arrival of the Norsemen on British soil. And, as they disappeared beneath the onslaught of the Viking Hosts, the ancient bardic traditions, which had once been succoured by these previously distinct ethnic groups, gradually became intertwined with one another as a result of widespread migration, inter-marriage and cross fertilization; the ultimate legacy of which was the perpetuation of the fragmentary remains of the ancient traditions which were to come to adorn the ballads that the Laird of Abbotsford himself collected, amongst the eighteenth century descendants of these ancient peoples.”
― The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrel Tradition
― The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrel Tradition
“Even in terms of fiction, nothing in their lives became them like the leaving of it. King Fjolnir rose in the night to make water, fell into a vat of mead and drowned instead; Sveigdir ran after a dwarf when drunk and vanished into a boulder; Vanlandi was trampled to death by a nightmare; Domaldi was sacrificed for good seasons; Dag was struck on the head with a pitchfork when seeking revenge for his sparrow; and so on down to the fifth century.”
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