📚 The Vikings

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Norse seafarers, raiders and traders: the sagas, the ships and the settlements from Dublin to Normandy, and how Europe came to fear them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject vikings in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Vikings	Gwyn Jones	1661	18
Viking (Eyewitness)	Susan M. Margeson	1994	18
The Vikings in western Christendom	C. F. Keary	1891	15
Vikingerne	Johannes Brøndsted	1960	15
A history of the Vikings	T. D. Kendrick	1930	13
The Norse Atlantic saga	Gwyn Jones	1964	13
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Viking Explorer!	Andrew Langley	2000	12
Vikings!	Magnus Magnusson	1980	10
Step into the Viking World	Philip Steele	1998	9
Leif the Lucky	Ingri Parin D'Aulaire	1941	8
The Vikings (The Seafarers)	Robert Wernick	1979	8
The Viking world	James Graham-Campbell	1980	8
The Vikings in history	F. Donald Logan	1983	7
Vikingernes verden	Else Roesdahl	1987	7
Viking (Eye Wonder)	DK Publishing	2007	7
The Viking World	Stefan Brink	2008	7
Children of Ash and Elm	Neil Price	2020	7
River Kings	Cat Jarman	2021	7
Viking Diaspora	Judith Jesch	2015	6
Viking art	David M. Wilson	1966	5
Everyday life in the Viking age	Jacqueline Simpson	1967	5
About the Vikings	Jacqueline Morley	1996	5
The Vikings	Holger Arbman	1961	4
The Vikings	James Graham-Campbell	1980	4
Viking raiders	Anne Civardi	1997	4
Vikings	Peter Chrisp	1998	4
Raiders of the North	Philip Steele	2001	4
The age of the Vikings	Anders Winroth	2014	4
The Usborne Internet-linked Viking World (Internet-linked)	Philippa Wingate	1994	3
The Vikings	Jonathan M. Wooding	1997	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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