1.Archaeology and the Classical Authorities 2. The Runes and the Old Norse Language 3. Heroes of Sweden 4. Heroes of Denmark 6. The Viking Wars of the Ninth Century 7. The Age of S. Anskar 8. Denmark in the Tenth Century 9. The Discovery of Iceland and the Faeroe Islands 10. The Civilization of the Icelandic Settlement 11. Norway under Harald Finehair 12. The Sons of Harald and Eirík 13. Ólaf Tryggvason 14. The Age of S. Ólaf 15. Scaldic Poetry and History 16. The First Icelandic Historians.
Biography
G. Turville–Petre (1908–1978) was Vigfusson Reader in Ancient Icelandic Liteature and Antiquities in the University of Oxford.
Original Review of The Heroic Age of Scandinavia:
‘[Turville-Petre’s] knowledge and judgement create confidence.’ Franklin D. Scott, The American Historical Review, Vol 57, Issue 4 (1952)
‘The author has gathered the highly diversified and extensive material from a vast quantity of sources, from notices in works of Classical Antiquity through the Medieval Ages up to critical investigations of our own days…The well-written book offers extremely interesting and exciting reading…’ Assar Janzén, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol 55, No. 1 (1956)
