Texts
Texts relevant to the study of pre-Christian religions — see sources for excerpts with commentary. Poems will link to the Skaldic Project
- An exchange of verses between Bragi and a troll-woman – Bragi inn gamli Boddason
- Fragments – Bragi inn gamli Boddason
- Þórr’s fishing – Bragi inn gamli Boddason
- Alvíssmál
- Annals II – Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Atlakviða
- Atlamál
- Baldrs draumar
- Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss
- Beowulf
- Brot af Sigurðarkviðu
- Burials – Mythological sources
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico – Julius Caesar
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
- De origine actibusque Getarum – Jordanes
- Deor
- Díalógar (Viðræður) Gregors páfa – Gregory I
- Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar
- Eiríks saga rauða
- Eyrbyggja saga
- Fáfnismál
- Fjölsvinnsmál
- Flateyjarbók
- Flóamanna saga
- Gautreks saga
- Germania – Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Gesta Danorum – Saxo Grammaticus
- Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum – Adam of Bremen
- Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Scholia
- Gísla saga Súrssonar
- Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar
- Grímnismál
- Grípisspá
- Grógaldr
- Gróttasöngur
- Guðrúnarhvöt
- Guðrúnarkviða I
- Guðrúnarkviða II
- Guðrúnarkviða III
- Gulaþingslög: Kristinn réttr hinn nýi
- Guta lag
- Guta saga
- Gylfaginning – Snorri Sturluson
- Hallfreðar saga
- Hallmundarkviða – Hallmundr bergbúinn
- Hamðismál
- Hárbarðsljóð
- Hávamál
- Heimskringla
- Helga kviða Hundingsbana I
- Helga kviða Hundingsbana II
- Helga þáttr Þórissonar
- Helgakviða Hjǫrvarðssonar
- Heliand
- Helreið Brynhildar
- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum – Bede
- Historia Norvegiae
- Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis
- Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða
- Hrólfs saga kraka
- Hymiskviða
- Hyndluljóð
- Jómsvíkingadrápa – Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson
- Kumblbúa þáttr
- Lacnunga
- Landnámabók
- Landnámabók Hb
- Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr
- Lokasenna
- Merseburg Charms
- Njáls saga
- Object types – Mythological sources
- Oddrúnargrátr
- Ǫrvar-Odds saga
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr Snorrason – Oddr Snorrason
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta
- Pictures – Mythological sources
- Prologue to Snorra Edda – Snorri Sturluson
- Ragnarsdrápa – Bragi inn gamli Boddason
- Reginsmál
- Rígsþula
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain
- Sermo Lupi ad Anglos – Wulfstan
- Sigrdrífumál
- Sigurðarkviða hin skamma
- Skáldskaparmál – Snorri Sturluson
- Skírnismál
- Snorra Edda – Snorri Sturluson
- Sǫrla þáttr
- The First Grammatical Treatise – First Grammarian
- Vafþrúðnismál
- Vatnsdœla saga
- Vǫlsa þáttr
- Vǫlsunga saga
- Vǫlundarkviða
- Vǫluspá
- Vulgate Bible – Jerome
- Waldere
- Widsith
- Þiðriks saga af Bern
- Þorsteins saga bœjarmagns
- Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar
- Þrymskviða
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Texts for pre-Christian religions
These are poems and prose works which are marked as relevant to the study of pre-Christian religions. These links provide the text without commentary.