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Note: Some of these Web Sites are serious academic resources, others are strictly for fun, and some are just "out there."  There are countless other sites that you can find easily with a search engine, though many (or even most) of these will offer information of rather dubious quality.

I. Early Germanic History
Ancient Worlds: Germania. A popular sort of site dedicated to information about the age of migrations, Germanic tribes, history and culture. Many links, chat rooms and information to other ancient civilizations, though not all of it is academic.

The Heroic Age is a free online journal dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire. An academic journal.

The Germanic Tribes. A Collection of links about the tribes during the Germanic migration.

German Culture -- History.  A German culture site with information on history.  Mostly contemporary or 20th century information, but some older materials as well.  Good for an overview of Germany's cultural and political history.

Grimm's Law.  An explanation of "Grimm's Law" governing sound shifts in the Indo-European languages.  This explains the place of the Germanic languages in the European family.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook.  An academic site associated wit the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. Contains a large number of links to early medieval history, including the Germanic tribes.

Norse Mythology. A university course site on Norse Mythology, with good background information, definitions and descriptions, and internet links as well. An excellent place to begin internet research.

The American Vinland Association: A Heathen, Non-Profit Religious Organization: A site with a lot of new age pagan religious information, Asatru, and links to Germanic mythology and its adherents, past and present. Not strictly academic.

Timeless Myths: Norse Mythology. A site dedicated to the mythologies of the world, with good general information on Norse mythology. The site also has an introduction to runes and to Icelandic sagas.

Encyclopedia Mythica: Norse Mythology. Excellent glossary of Norse mythological names and terms, with links to other sites as well. Also contains information about Celtic and Finnish mythologies.

Wikipedia introduction to Norse mythology, concise entries with numerous links to other names, terms, concepts.

Myths and Legends A collection of resources for various mythologies.

Images of the Norse Gods.  A fun site, with lots of good paintings and illustrations.

The World of the Vikings. The definitive guide to Viking resources on the Web. Numerous links, including academic topics, email lists, indexes, mead, museums, Viking re-enactments, runes, sagas, schools, and ships.

Nova Online: The Vikings. Interactive information about history and archaeology of the Viking era, from a PBS television production.

GR Burgess's Old Norse Page. Information on the language of the Vikings, Old Norse.

Old Norse for Beginners. Information about Old Norse, language instruction, runes, etc.

Ravensgard Viking Age Page.  Information about Viking Age culture, language, literature, with numerous links, also to Anglo-Saxon (Old English) works.

The Viking Network. A Norwegian site dedicated to all things Viking, in English and Norwegian. Fun, but not especially academic.

Viking Heritage. A Swedish site (in English) dedicated to Viking history and legacy in Sweden. A good database and links to maps and games and other sorts of information.

The Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga.  A Smithsonian site based on an exhibit in the museum.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts: Germanic Myths, Legends and Sagas. A large collections of links to various works and topics.

The Lay of Hildebrand. (Hildebrandslied).  A short site with some of the text on an audio file.

The Viking Site.  An academic site with information on the Saga of the Volsungs and on the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki.

Legends and Sagas. A collection of electronic texts and links from Sacred-Texts.com.  Includes Volsungasaga, Nibelungenlied, and other Germanic legends as well as legends from many other cultures (primarily European).

SAGANET: Icelandic Medieval Literature. The Saganet website contains authentic images of Old Icelandic literature -- page by page, manuscript and printed copies, dating from the 13th century through the year 1900. These works include the entire range of Icelandic family sagas. An academic site with good research resources, though most of it is not in English.

The Arnamagnæan Institute. An academic institute dedicated to Norse literature. The Website is in Danish and English, with good academic resources.

The Icelandic Saga Center. In Icelandic site dedicated to the Saga of Burnt Njal. Not a lot of information, but it demonstrates the relevance (and tourist potential) of the sagas in contemporary Iceland.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library.  Contains electronic texts of many medieval works, including sagas and legends. An excellent academic source for primary literature and research materials from these periods.

Folk and Fairy Tale Links.  A site with links to many of the Grimm's fairy tales, as well as to other folk and fairy tales from around the globe.

Literary Sources for Richard Wagner's Stage Works.  With links for Wagner's major works, especially the Ring Cycle.

The House of Telcontar: The Tolkein Library.  Contains extensive Tolkein texts, as well as links to Norse references in Tolkein's work.

Northvegr: The Northern Way. A site dedicated to the spiritual path of the pre-Christian spiritual faiths of Northern Europe also known as Heithni.  A contemporary pagan spiritual movement based on models found in Old Norse.

Regia Anglorum. Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History. One of the larger Viking Re-enactment societies.

Viking Fest. Nordic Celebration in Texas.  Fun site. Vikings in Waco?