Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney

6 best books like Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney (Anonymous): The City and the Stars, The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America, Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas, King Harald's Saga, Minns du den stad, A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

The City and the Stars

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.

Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.

But...

The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America

Author	Unknown
ISBN	0140441549

One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Grænlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga,...

Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Author	Unknown
ISBN	0192835300

This collection is best reviewed as individual stories, which is after all what they are. Some of the characters and places are in common between the individual sagas but from a reader point I feel they are discrete.
Having read a few sagas I can say that the editors and translators are what make or...

King Harald's Saga

Author	Snorri Sturluson
ISBN	0140441832

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which...

Minns du den stad

Author	Per Anders Fogelström
ISBN	9100559970

Oh Stockholm - you are bursting!

At the end of the First World War, Stockholm's streets are bigger, wider, and named after Nordic gods: Odenplan, Sveavägen and so on. These are the streets we still use to move across the ever expanding city. The Stockholm that the third generation of the Nilsson...

A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

Author	Jonathan Clements
ISBN	0786715995

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great seafarers or desperate...