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