Over my upcoming vacation, I resolve (1) to set up a Wiki account for the 81, linked to this blog. (Which I might then retitle "Scandinaviana") (2) to extensively chart my reading schedule (3) to finish Heimskringla and several other books.
I'll include here an update of my bibliography in progress....
Bolitho, William Twelve Against the Gods
Boosse, Claire Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales: Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/ Finnish/Icelandic
Brier, Bob The Encyclopedia of Mummies
Bronsted, Johannes The Vikings: The Background To A Fierce and Fascinating Civilization
Brown, Nancy Marie The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Buckley, Veronica Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Christianson, John Robert On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601
Churton, Tobias The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, The World’s Most Secret Society
Cutler, Alan The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
D’Aulaire, Ingi and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s Book of the Norse Myths
Derry, T.K. A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Iceland
Donner, Jorn The Films of Ingmar Bergman, From “Torment” To “All These Women”
Feldman, Burton The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige
Fante, Kenne Alfred Nobel: A Biography
Farnell, Kim Simply Runes
Garfinkel, Bernie Liv Ullmann & Ingmar Bergman
Hall, Anna Gertrude Nansen
Hamson, Knut Hunger
Hammarskjold, Dag Markings
Hedin, Sven My Life As An Explorer
Holberg, Ludvig Jeppe of the Hill and other comedies
Howarth, David 1066: The Year of the Conquest
Heyerdahl, Thor Kon Tiki
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House And Other Plays
Four Major Plays
Ingebritsen, Christine The Nordic States and European Unity
Scandinavia in World Politics
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Lange, Karen E. “Tales From the Bog”
Lingren, Astrid Pippi Longstocking
Man, John Atlas of the Year 1,000
McCullough, David Willis (ed.) Chronicles of the Barbarians
Wars of the Irish Kings
Mcvoy, J.P. and Zarate, Oscar Introducing Quantum Theory
Mears, Ray The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Meyer, Michael Ibsen
Midgaard, John A Brief History of Norway
Moberg, Wilhelm A History of the Swedish People: vol. 1, From Prehistory to the Renaissance; vol. 2From Renaissance to Revolution
Mowat, Farley West Viking: The Ancient Norse In Greenland and North America
Nordstrom, Byron J. Scandinavia Since 1500
Ohrelius, Commander Bengt Vasa The King’s Ship
Orsted, Hans Christian Selected Scientific Works of Hans Christian Orsted
Oxenstierna, Count Eric The Norsemen
Palmer, Donald D. Kierkegaard For Beginners
Pytlik, Mark Bjork, Wow and Flutter
Riste, Olav and Nokleby, Berit Norway 1940-1945: The Resistance Movement
Simmons, John The Scientific 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present
Shultz, Gladys Denny Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale
Smith, Alan G.R. Science And Society In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Smith, John Boulton Munch
Sonesteby, Gunnar Report from agent 24
Sprinchorn, Evert The Genius of the Scandinavian Theater
Sturluson, Snorri Heimskringla or The Lives of the Norse Kings (A.H. Smith translator)
The Prose Edda (translation and notes by Jesse L. Byock)
The Prose Edda (translation by Jean I. Young)
Swedenborg, Emanuel True Christian Religion
The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction
Toyne, S.M. The Scandinavians in History
Undset, Sigrid Jenny
Kristin Lavransdatter
Wedgwood, C.V. The Thirty Years War
Weibul, Jorgen Swedish History In Outline
Wilson, David M. The Northern World: The History And Heritage of Northern Europe AD 400-1100
The Vikings and Their Origins
Robert, the only thing that's even half as awesome as you are is your beautiful, beautiful beard!
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