IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 135: Network Analysis for Medievalists, I: Kinship Networks in Iceland and Orkney

Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Social Network Analysis Researchers of the Middle Ages (SNARMA)
Organiser:	Matthew H. Hammond, Department of History, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:	Matthew H. Hammond, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 135-a	I'll Make a Landnámsmaðr out of You: A Social Network Analysis of Primary, Secondary, and Dependant Settlers in Iceland as Portrayed in Landnámabók (Language: English) Cassidy Croci, School of English, University of Nottingham Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 135-b	An Analysis of the Relationships of Characters in the Icelandic Saga according to Chronological Order and Geographic Distance (Language: English) Shintaro Yamada, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History
Paper 135-c	'These people all come into the saga later[…]': Social Network Analysis and the Genealogies of Orkneyinga saga (Language: English) Tom Fairfax, School of English / Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, University of Nottingham Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract	Social network analysis is being applied to questions of Scandinavian settlement, kinship, and power structures in Iceland and the earldom of Orkney from the 9th to 12th centuries. Researchers discuss their current projects applying SNA techniques to Norse sagas and related material.