MICEL FOLCLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY VIIIa

Working on a new version of the bibliography and sharing it here. These books are recommended—or warned against—by members of the group and other medievalists. Please write with any additions you suggest!

PRIMARY

Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Seventh-century historical opus by an English monk. Pretty good!

Evensen, Erik. Gods of Asgard
A graphic novel version of the Eddas, stylistically done and true to the source. Not your father’s Mighty Thor!

Cockayne, Oswald (editor and translater). Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England
Three volumes translating several Anglo-Saxon leechbooks in the mid-1860s, including the Leechbook of bald, the herbarium of Apuleius Barbarus , Dioscorides Pedanius and Sextus Placitus. Archaic translations, sometimes a bit prudish but still very useful.

Crawford, Jackson. The Poetic Edda
Recent translation by a marvelous scholar…who rewrote “Star Wars” as an Icelandic saga and made it work!

Crawford, Jackson. The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok. Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek and Hrólf Kraki and His Champions
Wonderful translations available not only in individual books but collected in a hardbound boxed collection.

Crawford, Jackson. The Wanderer’s Havamal
Newly translated and annotated, with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript.

Delanty, Greg (ed.). The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
A collection of newly translated Old English poetry of various types and subjects.

Gaiman, Neil. Norse Mythology
A fairly standard translation written by a prominent popular fiction author. Adapted and collected in a comic book series with remarkable illustrations but absolute;y no sense eof accuracy.

Garbaty, Thomas J. Medieval English Literature
History good. Text in original & translation. Good for learning period English

Geoffrey of Monmouth. History of the Kings of Britain
The fantastic history of Britain, often referred to but little read, source of the Arthurian legends and a damned fun read. Translated by Sebastian Evans.

Heaney, Seamus (Trans.). Beowulf
An essential early English epic, which remains exciting and interesting today. Available in many translations, this is a recent one that is recommended.