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本书中讨论的大部分神话的原始资料都很容易找到译本。
Snorri Sturluson, Edda, trans. AnthonyFaulkes, 2nd edition (London, 2008). This contains The Tricking of Gylfi (Gylfaginning) and other mythological stories.
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington,2nd edition (Oxford, 2014). Most of the poems quoted in this book can be found in full here.
Saxo Grammaticus, The History of the Danes, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson, trans. Peter Fisher (Cambridge, 1979)
其他有趣和可读的关于北欧神话的书籍包括:
Chris Abram, Myths of the Pagan North:Gods of the Norsemen (London and New York, 2011)
R. I. Page, Norse Myths (The Legendary Past)(London, 1990)
Heather O’Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (London, 2007)
关于神话的一个既学术又非常有趣的讨论是:
Margaret Clunies Ross, Prolonged Echoes Vol. 1 (Odense, 1994)
对于维京时代历史的一个非常可读的记录:
Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings (Princeton, 2015)
更多的学术著作:
Judith Jesch, The Viking Diaspora (London and New York, 2015)
关于斯堪的纳维亚考古学及其与神话的关系的引人入胜的记述:
Anders Andrén, Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archaeological Perspective(Lund, 2014)
维京时代考古学的另一次探索:
Neil Price, The Viking Way: Religion and War in the Iron Age of Scandinavia, 2nd edition (Oxford, 2016)
当然,也有许多写给儿童的书,例如作家罗杰·兰斯林·格林和芭芭拉·莱昂尼·皮卡德的书。其中最好的是:
Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings (London, 1996)
以北欧神话为基础的一系列引人入胜的小说——前两部是写给年轻人的,最后一部是写给老年读者的:
Joanne Harris, Runemarks (London, 2008)
Joanne Harris, Runelight (London, 2011)
Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki (London, 2014)
Two young adult novels based on the heroic legends:
基于英雄传说的两部青年成人小说:
适合青年读者的两本基于英雄传说的小说:
Melvin Burgess, Bloodtide (London, 1999)
Melvin Burgess, Bloodsong (London, 2005)
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