Novels -- The Jaguar and the Wolf

Selected Bibliography

This is not a complete bibliography of all the sources I used for The Jaguar and the Wolf. It is a good starting point for those interested in either Mayan or Norse history or mythology.

Nonfiction

Bergþósson, Páll. The Wineline Millennium: Saga and Evidence. Mál og mennig, 2000.

Björnsson, Árni. High Days and Holidays in Iceland. Mál og menning, 1995.

De Landa, Friar Diego, author, and Gates, William, ed. Yucatan Before and After the Conquest. Dover Publications, 1978.

Jones, Prudence, and Pennick, Nigel. A History of Pagan Europe. Routledge, 1995.

Prechtel, Martin. Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.

Sabloff, Jeremy, and Andrews, E. Wyllys, ed. Late Lowland Maya Civilization: Classic to Postclassic. School of American Research, University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Schele, Linda, and Freidel, David. The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. William Morrow and Company, 1990.

Schele, Linda, and Freidel, David, and Parker, Joy. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. Quill, William Morrow, 1993.

Tedlock, Dennis. Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life. Touchstone, 1996.

Thompson, Eric S. Maya History & Religion. University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Wahlgren, Erik. The Vikings and America. Thames and Hudson, 1985.

Wawn, Andrew, and Sigurdardóttir, þórunn. Approaches to Vínland. Sigurdur Nordal Institute, 2001.

Webster, David. The Fall of the Ancient Maya. Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Whitlock, Ralph. Everyday Life of the Maya. Dorset Press, 1976.

Fiction

Sands, Marella. Sky Knife. Tor, 1997.

Tiptree, Jr., James. Tales of the Quintana Roo. Arkham House, 1986.

Poetry

Magnusson, Magnus, and Hermann, Pálsson, trans. The Vinland Sagas. Penguin Books, 1965.

Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, trans. The Destruction of the Jaguar: Poems of the Chilam Balam. City Lights Book, 1987.

Sturluson, Snorri. Edda. Everyman, 1987.

---., The Poetic Edda. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Myth

De Spain, Pleasant, ed., and Lamo-Jiménez, Mario, trans. The Emerald Lizard. August House, 1999.

Montejo, Victor, ed., and Kaufman, Wallace, trans. The Bird Who Cleans The World and other Mayan Fables. Curbstone Press, 1991.

Web Sources

General

Good general sources for myth:
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
http://www.myths.com/pub/myths/myth.html
http://www.mythsearch.com/index.html

Food timeline:
http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Native American technologies:
http://www.nativetech.org/

Iron working:
http://www.regia.org/ironwork.htm

Medieval science:
http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html

Mayan

General all around Mayan information:
http://www.jaguar-sun.com/maya.html

Mayan astronomy:
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astronom.html

Mayan stories:
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/mayastor.html

Pictures from a Mayan trip:
http://www.smm.org/sln/ma/teacher.html#top

Green iguana society:
http://www.greenigsociety.org/body.htm

Ceiba tree of the Mayans:
http://www.utopiasprings.com/ceiba.htm

General Mayan information:
http://mayaruins.com/yucmap.html

Norse

Translations of Eddas:
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/asatru/free.html

Germanic myths and legends:
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html

Gullveig's Confession:
http://www.nycpagan.com/gullveig.html

Northvegr, the Northern Way:
http://www.northvegr.org/main.html

Poetic Edda:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe03.htm

Prose Edda:
http://www.blackmask.com/books29c/...

Introduction to runes:
http://www.futhark.com/intro.html

Viking archaeology:
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/v/vikingarchaeology.htm

Viking sword:
http://www.vikingsword.com/