=Corpus Poeticum Boreale.= By Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell. (2 vols., Oxford, 1883.) This is an almost complete collection of old Norse Eddic and Court poetry, including poems by Torf Einar, Arnor the Earl’s poet, Earl Rognvald, and Bishop Bjarni. In a valuable introduction Vigfusson shows that many of the Eddic lays were written in the western Norse colonies in the British Isles, and some of them presumably in the Orkney earldom. =Icelandic Primer.= By Henry Sweet. (Oxford, 1886.) =Icelandic Prose Reader.= By G. Vigfusson and F. York Powell. (Oxford, 1879.) =Icelandic-English Dictionary.= By R. Cleasby. Edited by G. Vigfusson, with appendix by W. W. Skeat. (London, 1874.) The preceding three books form the best equipment for studying the language of the Norse period. =The Dialect and Place-Names of Shetland.= By J. Jakobsen. (Lerwick, 1897.) Many of the place-names explained occur in Orkney. =The Vikings in Western Christendom=, by C. F. Keary (London, 1891), gives an interesting account of the early Viking age, from 789 to 888 A.D. =Saga Time=, by J. Fulford Vicary (London, 1887), gives a popular description of society from the ninth to the eleventh century. =Orcades, seu Rerum Orcadensium Historia.= By Thormodus Torfaeus, Icelandic historian (1697). Translated by Alexander Pope, minister of Reay. (Wick, 1866.) Only a partial translation. *=Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland.= By J. J. A. Worsaae; translation. (London, 1852.) A standard work. =Monumenta Orcadica: the Norsemen in the Orkneys and the Monuments they have left, with a Survey of the Celtic Pre-Norwegian and Scottish Post-Norwegian Monuments in the Islands.= By L. Dietrichson. (Christiania, 1906.) The most recent and most scientific account of the Norse remains in Orkney, written in Norwegian, but with a very full summary—almost equivalent to a translation—in English. Of special interest is the account of the newly-discovered monastery in Eynhallow. =The Viking Age.= By Paul du Chaillu. (2 vols., London, 1889.) An account of the manners and customs, as well as the history, of the Viking period; well illustrated, but not accurate or authoritative. =The Early Kings of Norway.= By Thomas Carlyle. (London, 1875.) A short account of the period from 860 to 1397; of no great historical value. Norse Mythology. *=Northern Mythology.= By Benjamin Thorpe. (3 vols., London, 1851.) The best and most complete work on the subject. =Northern Antiquities.= By P. Mallet; translation. (London, 1770; edition in Bohn’s Series.) =The Mythology of the Eddas.= By C. F. Keary. (London, 1882.) =Norse Mythology: the Religion of our Forefathers.= By R. B. Anderson. (Chicago, 1875.) =Asgard and the Gods: a Manual of Norse Mythology.= By Dr. W. Wägner. (London, 1880.) The best popular book on the subject. =The Tragedy of the Norse Gods.= By R. J. Pitt. =Heroes and Hero-Worship.= By Thomas Carlyle. (London, 1841.)