The Viking Millennium Series:
a Battery Radio production broadcast on CBC Radio IDEAS January 18, 2002
Some reading suggestions for:
Hour One:
The Fury of the Northmen

Flashing names are authors heard in the series

Frithiif kills the two Sea-Demons:
by Carl Peter Lehmann



MUSIC heard in this program:

Sequentia: Edda - Myths from Medieval Iceland
DHM 05472-77381-2

Arne Magnussen Institute, Rejkavik: RADDIR -Voices
(Rimur chanting, etc)

Iceland Symphony: Saga Symphony (Leifs)

Vienna Philharmonic: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner) CMD-17B

Sibelius: Finlandia

Sawyer, Peter(ed): The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford University Press 1997. Contributors include: Simon Keynes.

Roesdahl, Else: The Vikings, 1987

Fitzhugh, Wm & Ward, Eliz(eds)Vikings the North Atlantic Saga, Smithsonian Institution Press 2000

Haywood, John: The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, Penguin Books 1995.

Jones, Gwyn: A History of the Vikings, Oxford University Press 1984.

Derson, Denise(ed): What Life was like when Longships Sailed, Time-Life Books.

Rud, Mogens: The Bayeux Tapestry. Christian Eilers Publishers, Copenhagen 1992.

Lund, Niels(ed): Two Voyagers at the Court of King Alfred, William Sessions Ltd, 1984.

Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fates of Human Society, Norton 1997

Sturluson, Snorri: King Harald's Saga, Penguin Books 1966.

Clausen, Birthe (ed):Viking Voyages to North America, The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark. Contributors include: Birgitta Wallace, Peter Schledermann, Max Winner.

Blindheim, Charlotte(ed): The Vikings, Nordbok 1975.

Sturluson, Snorri: Edda, Douglas & McIntyre 1995.

Sturluson, Snorri:Egil's Saga, Penguin Books 1976

Logan, Donald: The Vikings in History, Routledge 1991

Click on highlighted titles for details at Chapters.