- Stofnun Árna Magnússonar
Árnagarður, Háskóli Íslands
Reykjavík, Iceland
- Old Norse Literature, Old Norse Language, Old Norse literature and culture, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Icelandic manuscript tradition, and 24 moreCodicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval Cartography, Arctic Archaeology, Arctic Anthropology, Archaeology of Iceland, Viking Age Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature, Toponymy, Place Names (Cultural Geography), Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, Medieval Scandinavia, Viking Age, Religious and Magical Practices, Icelandic Sagas, Digital Humanities, Historical GIS, Archaeological GIS, Norse Greenland, Place Names, Geo-spatial analysis with GIS and GPS, and Environmental Humanitiesedit
This essay explores Sabine Baring-Gould's engagement with Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1844-48 map of Iceland, and the role that the Icelandic sagas played in his 1862 expedition to Iceland.
This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an interdisciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims... more
This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an interdisciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. The essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM), which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identified aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.
Research Interests: Geography, Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Humanities, Digital Humanities, and 12 moreMedieval Literature, Literature, Interdisciplinarity, Medieval Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Historical Ecology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Icelandic Sagas, and Digital Environmental Humanities
THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES STRATEGIC EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NEW DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS AND APPROACHES AS KEY ELEMENTS OF AN INTER-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM),1 which... more
THIS ESSAY DISCUSSES STRATEGIC EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NEW DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS AND APPROACHES AS KEY ELEMENTS OF AN INTER-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM),1 which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. he essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM),2 which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identiied aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.
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This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas... more
This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas and place names, to new discoveries of medieval and early modern life writing, their distinct paths converge on the study of culture as both a repository and medium of environmental knowledge, communication, and cultural memory.
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The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to... more
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of diverse data that underpin transdisciplinary synthesis research and to contextualise materials disseminated widely to the public more firmly in their evidence base. This article outlines the research infrastructure produced by the project and reflects on its design and development. We outline the core motivations for dataARC's work and introduce the tools, platforms and (meta)data products developed. We then undertake a critical review of the project's workflow. This review focuses on our understanding of the needs of stakeholder gr...
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This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims... more
This essay discusses strategic efforts to develop new digital research tools and approaches as key elements of an inter-disciplinary research initiative in progress, Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), which aims to study aspects of Icelandic literature, history, archaeology, environment, and geography in order to better understand societal responses to environmental change over the longue durée. The essay showcases a particular digital humanities project, Icelandic Saga Map (ISM), which not only provides an extremely useful tool for helping achieve many of the identified aims and methodological needs of an integrated environmental humanities initiative such as IEM but also is a valuable example of how innovative digital humanities tools can foster new research trajectories and open up new horizons for interdisciplinary engagement and synthesis of knowledge and diverse data.