Space and Place in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

A Literary Mapping Project of Place Names in Grettis saga, Gísla saga Súrssonar, and Hardar Saga og Hölmverja.



Map of Place Names, image (c) Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Map of Country Names, image (c) Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Gateway to About the Project, image (c) Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
Place Name Network Visualization, image (c) Mary Catherine Kinniburgh

An interdisciplinary project at Columbia University Libraries

by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, MA

Abstract

The project "Space and Place in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas" was developed by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as a case study to explore place in literature as both geographic and narrative phenomena. Executed with funding from the Digital Centers Internship Program at Columbia University Libraries at the Digital Social Sciences Center, the following data sets were created during the 2013-2014 academic year.

The project encompasses the three main outlaw sagas-- Grettis saga, Gísla saga Súrssonar, and Hardar Saga og Hölmverja--from Íslendingasögur, or the medieval Icelandic sagas written around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These texts were encoded for mentions of place name using TEI protocol, and the subsequent data was then translated into tabular form for use as metadata in both geographic and spatial visualizations.

These data sets, and their resulting visualizations, are available for download and use with citation.

How to Cite this Dataset

Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine. (2014). "Space and Place in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas: Mapping Place Name in Grettis saga, Gísla saga Súrssonar, and Hardar Saga og Hölmverja." Version 1.0 [Computer file]. New York, New York: Columbia University Libraries. Available at http://www.columbia.edu/~mck2158/main/.

Contact Email

mck2158@columbia.edu

For blog entries related to this project, please visit the Digital Centers Internship Blog.

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