The following are additional books, articles, and other useful resources, organized by subject. They can help you learn on your own and better understand this book. You can also follow the growing conversation online at www.onblackwings.com.
Anti-Fascism
Books
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
Antifa: the Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It by Shane Burley
The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism by Julia Ebner
Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism by Mattias Gardell
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse, edited by Ruth Wodak, Majid Khosravinik, and Brigitte Mral
Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwart
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
Against the Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross
Websites
Anti-Fascist News: https://antifascistnews.net/
A Thousand Flowers: https://athousandflowers.net/
It’s Going Down: https://itsgoingdown.org/
Searchlight Magazine: http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/#
Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/
Community Organizing and Education
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Anarchist Pedagogies, edited by Robert H. Haworth
Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes by Mathieu O’Neil
The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups by Starhawk
Folklore and Mythology
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson
The Road to Hel: A Study of The Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature by H. R. Ellis Davidson
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes by Carolyne Larrington
Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow
Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend, edited by Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf
Jackson Crawford’s Old Norse Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCxNFxw6-iqMh4uliYvufg
Mathias Nordvig’s Nordic Mythology Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmluPOXod57_6M45Z-etuw/
History
Early Medieval Europe: 300-1000 by Roger Collins
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
The Vikings: A History by Robert Ferguson
Nordic Religions in the Viking Age by Thomas A. DuBois
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Debt: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Women in the Viking Age by Judith Jesch
The Pursuit of History by John Tosh
A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson
The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd
The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Andrew Wawn
The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by Herwig Wolfram
Inclusivity
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? by John Esposito
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Disidentification by Jose Esteban Muñoz
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Race Matters by Cornell West
Philosophy
The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
Ask: Building Consent Culture by Kitty Stryker
Runes
Runes: A Handbook by Michael P. Barnes
The Sorcerer’s Screed by Jochum Magnús Eggertsson
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions by Terje Spurkland
Seiðr
The Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic by Jenny Blain
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia;Religion and War in the Later Iron Age of Scandinavia by Neil Price
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives by Anders Andren, Kristina Jennbert and Catharina Raudvere
Sagas
Beowulf
Njal’s Saga
Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Saga of Grettir the Strong
Sagas of the Icelanders
Saga of the Jomsvikings
Icelandic Saga Database: http://sagadb.org