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Primary Sources on the
Vikings and Norse
Early Viking Attacks
Annals
of St. Bertin on Viking attacks between 843 and 859
Viking
Raids in France and the Siege of Paris in 882-886
The Vikings in the
British Isles
The
Life of King Alfred
Annals
of the Reign of Alfred the Great, by Asser (PDF file)
Knut's
Invasion of England in 1015-16, according to the Knytlinga Saga
War
in the Orkney Islands in the Eleventh Century
The
Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066) and the life of Haraldr Siguršarson,
according to Theodoricus Monachus
Scandinavia in the Later
Middle Ages
Selections
from Agrip at Noregskonungasqum
Excerpts
from the Saga of Harald Hardrada
The
Battle of Norafiord (1184), according to the Sverrissaga
The
Siege of the Rock of Tunsberg (1201), from the Sverrissaga
Danish
History Books I-IX, by Saxo Grammaticus
Heimskringla
or The
Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Selection
about warfare from The
King's Mirror, a thirteenth century Norwegian text
Warfare
in Thirteenth Century Iceland
Thirteenth
Century Warfare between Norway and Scotland
Military
Organisation in the Guta Saga |