Historic Replica Constructions Vikings: Volume 3 (Edited by Stephen ‘Sven’ Wyley) comprises various projects with instructions on how to make the items while learning more about life in the Viking Age.

Authors, editors, and copyright: S. Wyley, Boyle, Croucher, Henley, Henry, Joyce, Robinson, D. Russell, E. Russell, B. Wyley.

Volume 3 of Stephen (Sven) Wyley’s series draws inspiration from this era of sophistication, trade, and Eastern influence. This book is designed for the artisan who has already mastered the fundamentals presented in our previous editions; it is an invitation to step out of the apprentice’s workshop and into the master’s hall. The projects selected for this volume represent a significant evolution in complexity, requiring patience, precision, and a diverse set of skills.

From the blurb: Vikings were wide travellers (raiders, settlers, mercenaries and traders), to the west they went to Iceland, Greenland and northern America, let alone Britain, France and the Mediterranean. And via the river routes Viking went east, to Kiev, Novgorod, Constantinople (Miklagarðr, the Great City) and into the Mediterranean. If you had enough money and gumption you could join the Varangian Guard, the personal body guard to the Byzantine Emperor (because they could be trusted because they held no local allegiances).

This is the third volume in the Viking series and by now if you have completed some of the projects in the previous books thus you will have most of the basic skills under your belt, so now we have set some harder tasks for you. Such as the Mästermyr chest, which has the most complicated joinery of all the Viking chests and its lock, the woven Varafell (cloak) which looks like its fur, and the Oseberg sprang loom. So good luck and be safe.