Books:
Downham, Clare. Viking kings of Britain and Ireland: the dynasty of ?varr to A.D. 1014. Edinburgh, 2007. 338 pages
Hadley, Dawn, The Vikings in England: settlement, society and culture. Manchester, 2006. 320 pages
Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba: Scotland 789-1070. Edinburgh, 2007. 359 pages
Additional book for the MA students:
? Cróinín, Dáibhí. Early medieval Ireland, 400-1200. London, 1995, 63-271. 209 pages.
Reading geared to the case study of Ireland:
*Etchingham, C., ‘North Wales, Ireland and the Isles: the Insular Viking zone’, Peritia 15 (2001), 145-87.
* Etchingham, C., ‘Names for the Vikings in Irish Annals’, in Sigur?sson, Bolton (eds.), Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 (Boston, 2014), 23-38.
* Etchingham, C., ‘The battle of Cenn Fuait, 917: location and military significance’, Peritia 21 (2010), 208-232.
*Etchingham, C., ‘The Location of Historical Laithlinn/ Lochl (i)nn: Scotland or Scandinavia?’, in M. ? Flaithearta (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica (Uppsala, 2007), 11-31.
* Etchingham, C., ‘Uita Findani: a Hiberno-German Window on the Early Viking Age’, in Simek, Ivanova (eds.), Between the Islands – and the continent (Vienna, 2013), 55-78.
*Etchingham, C., Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals (Maynooth, 1996) (79 pages).
* Hudson, B., ‘Brjáns Saga’, in Medium ?vum Vol. LXXI (2002), 241-268.
* ? Corráin, D., ‘Viking Ireland – Afterthoughts’, in Clarke, Mhaonaigh, ? Floinn (eds.), Ireland and Scandinavia in the early Viking Age (dublin, 1998), 421-452.
Documents:
- 1A & 1B: What did Viking Raiders want? The Life of Findan of Rheinau.
- 2A: Viking Kings in Ireland, mid-9th Century: Norway versus Denmark? Irish Annals (selections).
- 2B: Viking Kings in Ireland, mid-9th Century: Norway versus Denmark? The ‘Legend of Tuirgéis’ and the ‘Saga of Cerball’ (Extracts).
- 3A: Decline, Fall and re-establishment of Viking Dublin 873-917: Irish Annals (selections), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (extract).
- 3B: Dublin Vikings in Exile after 902- the story of Ingimundr: Welsh annals and Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.
- 4A: Viking Dublin wins and loses York: Irish Annals and Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (selections)
- 4B: Viking Dublin wins and loses York: Old English Poem The Battle of Brunanburh and Middle Welsh Poem The Great Prophecy of Britain.
- 5: Dublin after the Loss of York- Scottish Islemen, Danes and the Battle of Clontarf: Irish annals (selections), Welsh annals, English cronicles.
- 6: Dublin after the Loss of York- the Battle of Clontarf account in Njáls Saga.