Educational Resources

Here’s a collection of resources for your history education relative to Jorth Gar Living History. Try borrowing resources from your local library and your fellow Jorth Gar members. Links to purchasing resources have also been provided below where possible. All links will open in a new window.

Online Resources

• A Collation of Viking Names
• Benjamin Harris’ blog titled, “Gold Coast Medieval Re-enactment”
• The Viking Answer Lady
• Regia Anglorum
• Hurstwic
• Ravensgard’s Viking Age Page
• 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (documentary, aired 2009,Google Search)
• Deadliest Warrior “Viking vs Samurai” (season 1 episode 2, documentary, Google Search)
• 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of The Byzantine Empire (by Lars Brownworth)

Paperback & Digital Print

• Viking Hersir 793 – 1066 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Varangian Guard 988 – 1453 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Armies of Medieval Russia 750 – 1250 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Saxon, Viking and Norman (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Byzantine Armies 886 – 1118 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire 900-1204 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Byzantine Cavalryman 900 – 1204 (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Vikings: Voyagers of Discovery and Plunder (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Hasting 1066: The Fall of Saxon England (Revised Edition) (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Viking Longship (Osprey Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Vikings (by Magnus Magnusson) (The History Press | Amazon | Google Search)
• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (by Lars Brownworth) (Random House | Amazon | Google Search)
• Norse Warfare (Martina Sprague)  (Hippocrene Books | Amazon | Google Search)
• Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques (William R. Short) (Westholme Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Varangians of Byzantium (Sigfus Blondal) (Cambridge University Press | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Barbarians (Tim Newark) (Blandford Pr | Amazon | Google Search)
• Medieval Warfare Source Book – Warfare in Western Christendom (David Nicolle) (Arms & Armour Press | Amazon | Google Search)
• Medieval Warfare Source Book – Christian Europe and its Neighbours (David Nicolle) (Arms & Armour Press | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Barbarian West 400 – 1000 (Wallace Hadrill) (Wiley-Blackwell | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Heimskringla (Snorri Sturluson) (Amazon | Google Search)
• The Year 1000 (Robert Lacey) (Little Brown and Company | Amazon | Google Search)
• Saxons, Vikings and Celts (Bryan Skyes) (W. W. Norton | Amazon | Google Search)

Fiction/Fantasy

• Byzantium (by Michael Ennis) (Random House Value Publishing | Amazon | Google Search)
• Viking – Odinns Child (Tim Severin) Trilogy (Macmillan UK | Amazon | Google Search)
• The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell) (HarperCollins | Amazon | Google Search)