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Message: <blockquote data-quote="big dummy" data-source="post: 2883986" data-attributes="member: 41052">I was actually working on a book for another RPG on the Norse.  The period I studied was from the initial raid on Lindesfarne (and Island off of England) in 792, through the Battle of Hastings in 1066.  When I say Norse I mean primarily the people living in what is now Norway, Denmark and Sweden in the same time period and before (they are apparently indiginous going back to the Neolithic in this area).  The Norse changed a lot in the Viking Age though, converting to Christianity and falling under Monarchy by around 950 or so, so you might call the modern Pagan Norse era from 750 AD when their new ships started coming into use to around 950 AD when the infleunce of Continental EUrope really began to undermine their culture.Yes the conversions of the Norse were very bloody particularly in Norway and parts of Sweeden, involving torture and a great deal of warfare.  Even in Denmark which was under the heavy influence of the HRE there was considerable violence in some areas.  Harald Bluetooth first brough it in but it took another couple of generations to sitck.Here is part of my bibiography for the book I was working on:Primary Sources:Bede (673?-735) Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. (“the venerable bede”?)Njals SagaEgils SagaThe Saga of the VolsungsThe Saga of the JomsvikingsEdda, Snorri Sturluson. JM Dent & Sons 1987 (translated by Anthony Faulkes) Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander University of Texas Press 1962 The History of the Danes Saxo Grammaticus (translated by P. Fisher) D.S. Brewer 1980The Russian Primary ChronicleAnglo Saxon ChronicleCogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh (The War of the Irish against the Foreigners)Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)Alexiad Anna ComnenaInterpreted Sources:Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, N. Kershaw, Cambridge University Press 1921Larousse Encyclopedia of MythologyNorse Poems, WH Auden & Paul B. Taylor (tr), Faber and Faber 1983 Northern Lights, legends, and sagas folk tales, Kevin Crossley-Holland (ed.), Faber and Faber 1987 The Vikings Else RoesdahlThe Vikings Johannes BrondstedThe History of the Vikings Gwyn JonesOsprey Elite Series #3 The Vikings Ian HeathOsprey New Vanguard #47 Viking Longship Keith DurhamOsprey Warrior Series #3 Viking Hersir 793-1066 AD Mark HarrisonOsprey Men-At-Arms Series #333 Armies of Medieval Russia 750 – 1250 ADHistorical Novels and FilmsThe Long Ships Frans Gunnar BengtssonThe Vikings 1958There are also numerous good online sources.  One of the best is probably "The Viking Answer Lady", a woman from the SCA who did a great deal of resaerch on Vikings.  Also several re-enactment groups in Europe have good material available online.BD</blockquote>

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