I'm trying to find some accurate and detailed books/articles about norse history and culture. I've heard a lot of good things about The Viking Way by Neil Price but I'm afraid it might be out of date (it was published in 2002). I would be interested in stuff that focuses on archeology as well as history.
Just a note, that these works run the gamut from pop history to out and out academic works, and the vocabulary and jargon of the later articles might be a little more.....specific...that what you'd see in the earlier books, which were written for a larger audience. With that said, I'd highly recommend the following books and articles to get a better understanding of the Norse world and the Viking Age.
The Conversion of Scandinavia by Anders Winroth
Women in Old Norse Society by Judith Jesch
The Viking World edited by Stefan Brink
"Behind Heathendom: Archaeological Studies of Old Norse Religion" by Anders Andren
"The Creation of Old Norse Mythology" by Margaret Clunies Ross
"Popular Religion in the Viking Age" by Catharina Raudvere
The Viking Way has been published its 2nd edition recently (2017/ 2019 paperback), but I haven't purchased the copy of 2nd edition so that I can neither review in detail nor compare these two editions by myself. Judging about the reviews on the net, he seems to have updated his text a lot in the newer edition, so I don't recommend the older one. The 1st edition itself was not so bad in a sense of dated, but it relied rather heavily on the interpretive framework of the archaeology than the synthesis between archaeological and written sources.
While the 2nd edition of the Viking Way is without doubt one of the most detailed recent monographs on the topic by the single author in English, Price has also just published his latest general overview work on the Viking Age: Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (2020).
Many of the latest academic researches on the Viking Age culture by archaeologists and historians are also available mainly in form of essay collection.
(Added): As for another synthesis monograph balanced between archaeological and written sources as well as the interpretive framework, /u/sagathain recently kindly recommended (to me) a new book, Jóanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World, London: Bloomsbury, 2020. While I had mistaken this book rather exclusive on valkyries only and ignored it for later, it actually covers different aspects of women's role in the society of the Viking Age, so I'd also recommend this book as a new 'intermediate' (readable academic) book on the Old Norse culture.
Thanks for all the help! I have some reading to do 😊