Online Texts and Translations

For a comprehensive directory of Old Norse prose texts in the original and translation, see now Old Norse Texts Online.

  • Heimskringla (“Norrøne Tekster og Kvad” (Old Norse Prose and Poetry))

    The purpose of the project “Norrøne Tekster og Kvad” (Old Norse Prose and Poetry) is to make Old Norse literature freely accessible on the internet. In addition to source texts in the original language readers will find several texts translated into the later Scandinavian languages, classical scholarly works and other background material, in particular from before 1900.

  • The Icelandic Saga Database
    Online editions of a majority of the     Íslendingasögur, in Modern Icelandic, Old Norse, and a variety of other languages.
  • Septentrionalia
    Scans of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century editions of Old Norse, Old English, and some other early European texts. Also includes reproductions of important older works of scholarship and reference.
  • Viking Society for Northern Research
    Digital versions of most of the texts, translations, and studies published by the Viking Society between 1895 and the present.