Books about the Varangians

[Salubele]

After listening to The Varangian Way a LOT, I've got more and more interested in the history behind the songs. Have you guys read any books (either fact or fiction) about the Varangians, which you could recommend? I'm especially interested in good novels, but any books will do. I've read a lot about vikings in general, but not so much about the Varangians themselves.

 

[The Shinster]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

Might be a good place to start, check the references.

 

[Salubele]

Thanks Shinster. I actually DID check the references from wikipedia, but I was hoping to get recommendations from people who actually have read those books, or some other books about the subject. And maybe get a bit of discussion going on about the books as well.

 

[ingrid]

well not really books about them, but since I study history I have read about them in my studybooks ofcourse.
but it's not on a high level or so just some random stuff you probably already know

 

[The Shinster]

Heh sorry, I haven't read anything about them I'm afraid, I only really know about them from playing Medieval: Total War.

And I'm more of an ancient history guy anyways.

 

[The Creator of Failure]

Heh sorry, I haven't read anything about them I'm afraid, I only really know about them from playing Medieval: Total War.

They've been my absolutely favourite unit in the game since the very first time I played it 5/6 years ago

On topic - I'm not sure how likely it is to find a book about the Varangians, you could only get some info from other books.

 

[Cari]

i´ve been searching for books about it quite a lot already some time, but without any success...it´s always been on books about masses of other stuff aswell, so.. :S

 

[ingrid]

well books about the Varangians are very rare

I wanted to write a paper for uni about the Varangians.. but couldn't find any literature.. so I decided to write my paper about the vikings at the Rhine in the Netherlands..

anyway.. a classmate does want to write about the Varangians

some nice links might be:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

and this.. but you have to sign up to be able to reach the information (I hope those links work, I copied them from a mail from my classmate)

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.uu.nl/sici?sici=0075-4358(1947)37%3c39:TLHOTV>2.0.CO;2-Q&origin=utrecht

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.uu.nl/sici?sici=0038-7134(198101)56:1%3c99:TVOB>2.0.CO;2-2&origin=utrecht


http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.uu.nl/sici?sici=0020-7438(199705)29:2%3c293:STDTBW>2.0.CO;2-M&origin=utrecht

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.uu.nl/sici?sici=0075-4269(2002)122%3c206:WSASIT>2.0.CO;2-Q&origin=utrecht

http://www.jstor.org.proxy.library.uu.nl/sici?sici=0013-8266(199804)113:451%3c403:BAIA2>2.0.CO;2-J&origin=utrecht

 

[Cari]

i am going to try those this afternoon