Directory of Classical Historians Resources

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This category is for the classical and medieval historians that write about the history of the Germanic tribes and kingdoms of the pre-conversion era.

Resources in This Category

• Ertha, the Germanic Earth Goddess

  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ertha.html
  By Tacitus, excerp from "The Works of Tacitus", The Oxford Translation.

• Heimskringla - The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway

  http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/
  Originally written in Old Norse, 1225 A.D., by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson. English translation by Samuel Laing (London, 1844).

• Jordanes - The Origin and Deeds of the Goths

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html
  Translated by Charles C. Mierow. Full e-text.

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

  http://omacl.org/Anglo/
  Complete modern English translation published by the Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL).

• The Danish History, Books I - IX

  http://omacl.org/DanishHistory/
  Originally written in Latin in the early years of the 13th Century A.D. by the Danish historian Saxo Gramaticus, translated to English by Oliver Elton.

 

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