Authors: Katherine Langrish
Troll Blood (36 page)
To Visit
The Jorvik Viking Centre in York, UK
The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark
Online
Have a look at www.vikinganswerlady.com. It’s a terrific website that will tell you more than you ever dreamed was known about the Vikings.
Books
There are loads of good books about the Vikings. Here are some I have found extremely helpful.
Almgren, Bertil.
The Viking
. Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1975.
Binns, Alan.
Viking Voyagers
. London: Heinemann, 1980.
Davidson, Hilda Ellis.
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
. Baltimore: Penguin, 1964.
Fitzhugh, William W., and Elisabeth I. Ward, eds.
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Ingstad, Helge.
Westward to Vinland
. London: Cape, 1969.
Jesch, Judith.
Women in the Viking
Age. Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 1991.
Jones, Gwyn.
A History of the Vikings
. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Magnusson, Magnus.
The Vikings
. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Tempus, 2003.
Wahlgren, Erik.
The Vikings and America
. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Primary Sources
You can’t do better than to read some of the original sagas and stories for yourself. There are lots of different editions available.
The Greenland Saga
Eirik the Red’s Saga
Grettir’s Saga
Egil’s Saga
The Prose Edda
The Elder Edda
Árnason, Jón.
Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales
. Hallmundson, May and Hallberg, transl. Reykjavik, Iceland: Iceland Review, 1987.
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.
Craigie, William.
Scandinavian Folk-lore
. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.
Jones, Gwyn.
Scandinavian Legends and Folk-tales
. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Keightley, Thomas.
The Fairy Mythology
. London: H. G. Bohn, 1860.
Lang, Andrew.
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899.
Lie. Jonas.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas
. Iowa City, Ia.: Penfield Press, 2007.
Online
You can learn some Mi’kmaq words and hear them spoken at www.firstnationhelp.com/ali/posters.
Another great online source with lots of information is www.native-languages.org/mikmaq.htm.
Articles
Hager, Stansbury. “Micmac Customs and Traditions.” In
American Anthropologist, Vol
. 8, No. 1, January 1895.
Reade, John. “Some Wabanaki Songs.” In
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada
, May 25, 1887.
Books
Le Clerq, Chrestien.
New Relation of Gaspesia
. William F. Ganong, transl. and ed. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1910.
Lescarbot, Marc.
History of New France
. W. L. Grant, transl.
and ed. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1907-14.
Maillard, Antoine Simon.
An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets
… London: S. Hooper and A. Morley, 1758.
McCurdy, Michael.
An Algonquian Year
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Sagard, Gabriel.
The Long Journey to the Country of the Hurons
. George Wrong, ed. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1939.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.
Elitekey: Micmac Material Culture from 1600 A.D. to the Present
. Halifax, N.S.: Nova Scotia Museum, 1980.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. and Harold McGee.
The Micmac: How their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago
. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1983.
“The Grabber-from-Beneath”
Bruchac, Joseph and James.
When the Chenoo Howls
. New York: Walker, 1998.
The Ndakinna Wilderness Project at www.ndakinna.com.
The Wiklatmu’jk
Parsons, Elsie Clews. “Micmac Folklore” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 38, Jan.-Mar. 1925.
“Swamp Woman”
Brown, Mrs. W. Wallace. “A Wabanaki Counting-Out Rhyme.” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 3, 1890.
Jenu or Chenoo
Hager, Stansbury. “Micmac Magic and Medicine” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 9, No. 34, Jul.-Sep. 1896.
Leland, Charles.
The Algonquin Legends of New England
. Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884.
Rand, Silas Tertius.
Legends of the Micmacs
. New York, London: Longmans, Green, 1894.
“The Spreaders”
Bruchac, Joseph and James.
When the Chenoo Howls
. New York: Walker, 1998.
The Ndakinna Wilderness Project at www.ndakinna.com.
“The Thin Faces”
Chamberlain, A. F. “Some Items of Algonkian Folklore.” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 13, Oct.-Dec. 1900.
Leland, Charles.
The Algonquin Legends of New England
. Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884.
Speck, Frank G. “Montagnais and Naskapi Tales” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 38, No. 47, Jan.-Mar. 1925.
Jipijka’m
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.
Stories from the Six Worlds
. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1988.
Kewasu’nukwej, the Invisible Tree-cutter
Alger, Abby L., and Mrs. Wallace Brown.
In Indian Tents
. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. (See Al-wus-ki-ni-kess, the spirit of the woods.)
Rand, Silas Tertius.
Legends of the Micmacs
. New York,
London: Longmans, Green, 1894. (Here the tree-cutter is named Wegooaskunoogwejit.)
The Tioml or Totemic Helper
Rand, Silas Tertius.
Legends of the Micmacs
. New York, London: Longmans, Green, 1894.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.
Stories from the Six Worlds
. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1988.
Snakes Listening to Stories in Summertime
Bergen, Fanny D. “Some Customs and Beliefs of the Winnebago Indians.” In
Journal of American Folklore, Vol
. 9, No. 32, Jan.-Mar. 1896.
KARHERINE LANGRISH
grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, the hill country of northern England, where there are still strong Scandinavian traces (in place names, family names, and even dialect) from the Danes who settled the area a thousand years ago, and where a farming community with an emphasis on neighborly interdependence continues. She graduated with an honors degree in English from the University of London and has been writing stories for most of her life. Living with her husband and two daughters on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, thirty miles from Paris, she began storytelling to classes at the International School. Her family later moved to Corning, New York, where she joined Literacy Volunteers of America. She is the author of two previous novels: troll fell, a New York Public Library “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing” book, and
TROLL MILL
, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Katherine Langrish currently lives in England. You may visit her online at www.katherinelangrish.com.
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Langrish, Katherine.
Troll blood / Katherine Langrish. — 1st U. S. ed.
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Sequel to: Troll Mill.
Summary: When the cunning seafaring trader Gunnar, and his short-tempered, sword-wielding son, Harald Silkenhair, land in Trollsvik looking for a crew for a journey to Vinland, fifteen-year-old Peer, suspicious of their motives, reluctantly agrees to join them, mostly to watch over his friend Hilde who is eager to sail to the New World as companion to Gunnar’s wife Astrid.
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1. Vikings—Juvenile fiction. [1.Vikings—Fiction. 2. Voyages and travel—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction. 4. Micmac Indians—Fiction. 5. Indians of North America—Maritime Provinces—Fiction. 6. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction.] I. Title.
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