Viking History and Norse Mythology links
Mythology and Sagas in West-Iceland
Hávamál - The Sayings of the Vikings
Icelandic Sagas
Old literature in West-Iceland
The Viking History Web
Halfdan the Black's Saga
The Vikings Online Main page
The Vikings Network
Yahoo's links to Vikings
The Vikings on CD-Rom
The Electronic Beowulf Project
Project Runeberg
Saga Characters
Montana State University collection of links on Viking History,
Norse Mythology, Literature and Runes
[USA]
This is the home page of the Icelandic sagas Laxdaela, Egils saga, Snorri Sturluson and Snorri's Edda as well. Students in Icelandic 103 and Icelandic 313 at Fjoelbrautaskoli Vesturlands take care of these pages as a part of their studies.
[Iceland]
Hávamál contains the words of wisdom which served as spiritual provisions for the Vikings on their long journeys over the rough sea to discover new lands.
[Iceland]
Online Medieval And Classical Library (OMACL)
E-texts based on public domain translations of Icelandic Sagas
such as "Grettir's Saga" and "Cormac's Saga"
"Heitharviga Saga" (Trans: W. Morris & E. Magnusson) now available at
Online Medieval And Classical Library (OMACL) -
(Download only)
and via FTP in a single HEITHRVG.ZIP file at
University of Kansas Main OMACL Archive (FTP):
(Anonymous login, then set for directory: pub/history/Europe/Medieval/translations)
Online Book Initiative (FTP):
(In directories "Classics", "Anglo-Saxon", "Geoffrey Chaucer", etc.)
Author Douglas B. Killings
[USA]
Students in Icelandic 103 and Icelandic 313 at Fjoelbrautaskoli Vesturlands take care of these pages as a part of their studies.
[Iceland]
A great site explaining the history of the Vikings
[Norway]
From the Viking History Web
[Norway]
An exhaustive collection of links relating to every aspect of Viking history,
customs, language, runes, ships, etc.
[Norway]
A project to combine the teaching of the Vikings and the Viking era with electronic
communications.
[Norway]
Special Viking area of the search engine with a collection of links on the Vikings.
[USA]
Commercial CD-Rom on the Vikings
[Sweden]
By the British Library. The original thousand-year-old manuscript of Beowulf's epic combats with dragons and monsters.
[United Kingdom]
An open and voluntary initiative to create and collect free electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art.
[Sweden]
Each workstation at DIKU has a name taken from the old Sagas, and there is a small page explaining each of them here.
[Denmark]
The Bee's Lees
The Mead Maker's Page
Floyd's Mead page
Halfdan's Mead Recipe
A very large collection of Mead Recipes. Joyce Miller, Editor.
[USA]
If it's good for ancient Druids, runnin' nekkid through the wuids, Drinkin' strange fermented fluids, it's good enough for me!
[USA]
Mead - information about it in general, and how to brew your own mead
[Sweden]
My own mead recipe - how to brew your own mead
[USA]
Runic Futhark
Runic Futharks
Runes of the elder Futhark
Runic Futharks
The Rune Typology Project
Rune Stones
Viking age rune stones
Viking rune stones of Sweden
Runic inscriptions
List of alleged Viking sites in America
The Kensington Runestone
The Kensington Runestone
The Kensington Runestone FAQ
The Heavener Runestone
The Spirit Pond Inscription
Transcription of the Spirit Pond Inscription
Runecaster
Bryggen Runic font
The Yamada WWW Language Guides - Runes
Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark
RuneType - The project
Gullskoen Rune font
Runic Font Pack
Edlund Font Project
More Rune Fonts for Windows
Linguist's Software TransRunic Fonts
Runic
Fonts by Johan Nordlander
Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows
Old English Pages: Fonts
SCRIPTA
Halatafl Game Download
An explanation of the Runic Futhark (Viking equivalent to the modern day "Alphabet")
[Sweden]
An excellent explanation of the various Runic Futharks including charts of the Germanic, the normal Danish, the short twigged Norwegian-Swedish, Staveless, and Medieval Futharks
[Sweden]
Series written by valkyrie@eskimo.com and posted originally on Runes/Asatru on PODS.
[Germany]
An excellent explanation of the various Runic Futharks including the history and development of the Elder Futhark, Germanic Runes and Numerology, Norwegian Runes, Swedish Runes, Danish Runes, Anglo-Saxon Runes, and the Runes of Greenland
[Norway - (in Norwegian and English)]
This project's aim is to develop a transliteration system that is wholly dependent on the symbols' [runes] graphic form with no presumptions about their phonetic value.
[Norway]
Including Ölstastenen - a rune stone with restored colours, information about the futharks, runestone distribution and a few typical rune stones from Uppland.
[Sweden]
Viking Age Rune Stones of Sweden
[Sweden]
Viking Age Rune Stones of Sweden
[Sweden]
A simple form for searching a database of Runic inscriptions at Bergen Museum.
[Norway]
including the Kensington Stone in Alexandria, Minnesota, the Heavener Stone in Oklahoma, and the Stone Tower in Newport Rhode Island
[USA]
A page about the Kensington Runestone found in 1898 in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA.
[USA]
Michael Zalar's site containing lots of information, rebuttals and links on the Kensington Runestone found in 1898 in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA.
[USA]
Questions and answers about the Kensington Runestone found in 1898 in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA.
[USA]
A 'Runestone' near Heavener, Oklahoma, USA.
[USA]
Description of the Spirit Pond stone with 10 lines of Runic inscriptions found in 1971 at Spirit Pond, Maine, USA.
[USA]
Transcription of the Spirit Pond stone runic inscription found in 1971 at Spirit Pond, Maine, USA.
[USA]
The peoples of ancient Germania, Scandinavia, and Britain attributed mystical power to their runic letters, which were believed to hold magical force..
[USA]
The Bryggen Runic font for Mac, developed by Odd Einar Haugen at the University of Bergen, Norway. (110k BinHex'ed file via FTP).
[Norway]
From the University of Oregon, a nice collection of Runic fonts and a guide to language resources.
[USA]
[USA]
[Norway]
[Norway]
[Sweden]
[UK]
[USA]
From Linguist's Software, a nice collection of commercial Runic True Type fonts for Windows and Mac including runes for Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, Kylver, Vadstena, Breza, and Danish fonts, and Swedo-Norwegian (short-twig) runes.
[USA]
A nice collection of 5 commercial Runic True Type fonts for Windows and Mac including runes for Danish, German, Norwegian, Old Norse, and Swedish/Danish short-twig runes.
[UK]
[USA]
[USA]
A nice collection of medieval fonts.
[ITALY]
This ancient Scandinavian game, popularized prior to 1000 A.D., was originally known as Freystafl in the Icelandic Sagas, and has since come to be known as Fox and Geese.
This Windows PC version of Halatafl contains several Viking icons that I personally designed which were incorporated into this particular version of the game.
(Download Halfdan's Vikons separately)
[USA]
Halfdan's Mead Hall of Links
Halfdan's Mead Recipe
Halfdan's Page of Runes, Futharks, and Runic Inscriptions
Halfdan's Main Page (Tables)
Halfdan's Homepage (English)
Halfdan's Homepage (German)
Halfdan's Homepage (Swedish)
Halfdan's Homepage (Norwegian)
Halfdan's Homepage (Icelandic)
Halfdan's Site Search Engine
Halfdan's Guestbook
E-mail: Halfdan@aol.com