For Yous Information - Novel Database For Medieval Scandinavian Literature Launched

The novel Norse World database volition larn far easier for researchers to written report perceptions of the surrounding footing inward Medieval Scandinavian literature. The novel tool is a digital resources aimed at researchers inward fields such every bit linguistic communication history too philology, comparative literature, manuscript studies too digital humanities. It is freely available to researchers too the public.

Credit: Uppsala University

Spatial humanities too cognitive mapping are growing fields inside digital humanities, only the written report of spatial thinking inward medieval Scandinavia too its evolution every bit an expanse of inquiry are hampered past times a lack of information on house names too other spatial references inward literary texts.

Scandinavian Medieval literature is a mine of information on how unusual lands were visualised inward the Middle Ages: What places were written virtually too where? Are to a greater extent than or less places to a greater extent than pop inward for sure text types or at for sure times? How practice house names link dissimilar texts? Is in that location a shared concept of spatiality? How is infinite gendered?

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"Any inquiry aiming to uncover what pre-modern Scandinavians understood virtually places abroad requires every bit a minimum an index of unusual house names inward Swedish too Danish literature from the Middle Ages. Yet, to date, no such index exists. With the pose out of Norse World, an of import tool is beingness made available for the starting fourth dimension time that makes inquiry on the perception of the footing alongside pre-modern Swedes too Danes possible for the starting fourth dimension time," says Alexandra Petrulevich, Researcher at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University.

The novel tool consists of 3 principal components: a bespoke MySQL database, Norse World—an interactive map, too an independent back-end application that enables access to the database when users search the map resource. All 3 components purpose open-source code which enables them to hold upward built into larger infrastructure clusters. The tool is both a scientific too technical starting fourth dimension with no equivalent inward what has previously been done inward philology too linguistics.

Source: Uppsala University [November 02, 2018]


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