Books written by Sverrir Jakobsson

  • Historical Dictionary of Iceland

    This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Iceland contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography.

  • The Varangians: In God’s Holy Fire

    This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances.

  • The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

    Moreover, besides scores of library catalogues, digital book registers such as the Regesta Imperii Opac (RI-Opac), currently listing over 2 million international publications on the Middle Ages, significantly ease the search for studies ...

  • The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

    Peter Foote, Hermann Pálsson, and Desmond Slay, London, The Viking Society for Northern Research, 1973, 143–83. See e.g. Bettina Sejbjerg Sommer, ... 18 Karen Bek-Pedersen, The Norns in Old Norse Mythology. Edinburgh, Dunedin, 2011.

  • Images of the North: Histories, Identities, Ideas

    This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues.