Written almost a century ago, A Corner in the North by Hastings M. Neville gives a real insight into country life and customs in Northumberland and the Borders. As a book it has stood the test of time.....

Sidney Oldall Addy's book was first published by Trubner for the English Dialect Society in 1888, it has long been out of print, and is here reprinted in facsimile, together with Addy's Supplement to .....

Stephens' book, first published in Copenhagen and London in 1884, includes all the illustrations from his larger, three-volume work, but with shorter texts. As such, it provides a useful pictorial ove.....

A superbly-told tale of greed and envy, of murder, bribery and corruption in eleventh-century Iceland, in which wit and cunning are pitted against wealth and power, and human allegiances crack and re-.....

Mrs Balfour's book, revised and edited by Mr. N. W. Thomas, was volume iv of the County Folklore series published by the Folklore Society in 1904, and here reproduced in facsimile. Her book, together .....

These examples of printed folklore concerning the Orkney and Shetland Islands were collected by G. F. Black and edited by Northcote W. Thomas to form vol. III of the County Folklore series published b.....

A facsimile reprint of the edition published by Titus Wilson of Kendal in 1910. In his preface, Collingwood states "this book is not a novel. It is intended as a historical picture in the style of Mic.....

This story is to be found in the great fourteenth-century Icelandic MS., known as Flateybook, cut up into separate pieces, which are seen when brought together to make a single tale, the Saga of Thron.....

These legends were collected by Jon Arnason early in the second half of the nineteenth century, at a time when the art of storytelling was still alive. The translation by George Powell and Eirikur Mag.....

The Landnama book of Iceland & A Glossary of Words in The Dialect of Cumberland, Westmorland and North Lancashire. Cognate place names and surnames and a supplement of words used in shepherding, folk-.....

Between the leaving of the legions and the onslaught of the vikings, a warrior dynasty emerged out of the battles in the shadow of Hadrian's Wall to claim their royal capital at Bamburgh and carve out.....

Northumbria in the days of Bede is that rare phenomenon, a scholar's labour of love designed for the widest possible audience. In this absorbing book, Blair celebrates the brilliance of seventh and ei.....

The Northumbrian Church, with its Celtic origins, extended right across the North of England and into Galloway in Scotland. Thus it encompassed Angles, Celts and, later, Scandinavian immigrants, whose.....

This comprehensive work by E. J. Guthrie was first published in 1885. The present paperback is a facsimile reprint of that edition......

W. G. Collingwood's account of the Viking settlement of Britain is still of considerable interest and value as a compact account of the subject in a single volume of modest size. This paperback editio.....

First published in 1899, this paperback is a facsimile reprint of that edition. It includes an account of the Picts and their Brochs, prehistoric remains from the stone and bronze ages, Folk-lore, Pr.....

A sequel to Collingwood's ‘Thorstein of the Mere,’ 'the Bondwomen' concentrates on the more domestic side of life in the Lake District at a time when Norse settlers were competing with ab.....

A facsimile reprint of the edition of 1873.....

The Life and Death of Cormac the Scald or the Icelandic Kormak's Saga is rendered into English by W. G. Collingwood and Jon Stefansson, with Collingwood's illustrations of the saga sites in Iceland. I.....

Sir Thomas Learmonth, True Thomas and Thomas the Rhymer; he is known by all three names. For those of you who are unfamiliar with any of these, here is a brief history. Thomas signed his name Thome de.....

Who was Elfwald II of Northumbria? History tells us his name, but not his parentage; his temporary success against a usurper, but not the circumstances and causes of the struggle. These we are left to.....

The investigation of the place-names of Durham is made greatly more difficult by the fact there was no Doomsday Survey of the county. The place-names of the county are nearly all of native origin. Th.....

A facsimile reprint of the edition of the original 'Rolls Series' translation by Sir George W. Dasent. The Saga of Hacon presents the reader with an unbroken record of the career of a king who ruled i.....

This Saga, dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, is said to have been written by Abbot Karl Jonsson, of Thingeri in the north of Iceland, "when King Sverri himself sat over him and set.....

The Secret Valley tells the story of how the people of Lakeland held out for half a century against the Norman conquerors. The headquarters of the resistance were in a hidden location, the upper part .....

..... it offers a distinct picture of the old life in the Lake country, when aboriginal Celts, Vikings, English, later Danes and Scots of Scotland were striving for the mastery... On the whole the b.....