Recommended Reading

Eyewitness Accounts: Contemporary Texts and References

Apollo the Wolf-God—by Daniel Gershenson
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland—by William Ian Miller
Classical Olbia and the Scythian World: From the Sixth Century BC to the Second Century AD—by David Braund (Editor), S D Kryzhitskiy (Editor)
Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice—by Bruce Lincoln
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society—by Émile Benveniste
From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail—by C. Scott Littleton (Author), Linda A. Malcor (Author)
Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen—by Sergei I. Rudenko
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution—by Richard Wrangham
The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)—by E R Dodds
Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth—by Norman O. Brown
A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity through the Early Middle Ages—by Bernard S. Bachrach
Indo-European Poetry and Myth—by M. L. West
On Kings—by Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tene to the Viking Age—by Michael J. Enright
The Lost Laws of Ireland—by Catherine Duggan
The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England Reprint Edition—by Stephen Pollington
Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty—by Georges Dumézil
Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction—by Bruce Lincoln
The One-eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-) Germanic Männerbünde (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 36)—by Kris Kershaw
The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature—by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion—by Mircea Eliade
Scythians and Greeks: A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine, From the Danube to the Caucasus—by Ellis H. Minns
Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interaction in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (Sixth Century BC to First Century AD)—by David Braund (Editor)
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe—by Barry Cunliffe
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy—by Mircea Eliade
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure—by Brian Skyrms
The Stakes of the Warrior—by Georges Dumezil
The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom: Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God—by Yulia Ustinova
The World of the Scythians—by Renate Rolle

Updated occasionally as I think of books to add…

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Additionally, it should go without saying that my recommendations are in no way endorsements of individual authors or their private views or actions, nor are they endorsements of all the views or evidence put forth in these works. I have suggested this reading because I feel it brings context, variety, and nuance—much of it conflicting—to the broader conversation surrounding the subject matter of my novels. Readers are free to parse these various perspectives and alternative hypotheses and draw their own conclusions.