Aim of the Network
The aim of the research network is to connect scholars with a shared interest for research at the intersection between Old Norse studies - mostly focusing on manuscript-based and material approaches to Old Norse literature and culture -, and digital humanities in a broad sense.
By maintaining this network, we hope to achieve the following points:
- Share knowledge, ideas, and data; connect with researchers with similar interests.
- Have a critical and constructive dialog on the implications and influences of digital tools and methods and data on our research.
- Further the exchange between users and producers of digital research infrastructures.
- Plan collaborative projects and publications; collaboratively acquire funding.
People
The following people (ordered alphabetically by given name) are part of the network:
Balduin Landolt
University of Basel / Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH)
After an MA in Scandinavian Studies, Balduin Landolt works as a backend software developer (Scala) at a digital archive for open research data. He is interested in everything from manuscripts and (digital) editing to software architecture and design in the context of functional programming.
Beeke Stegmann
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
Eline Elmiger
Project “Resonating Networks” | University of Basel
Eline Elmiger is a PhD student at the University of Basel and a member of the Network for Digital Old Norse Studies as well as the Arbeitsgruppe “Digitale Forschung in der Altnordistik” in Basel. She is also one of the organizers of the workshop “Digital Research in Old Norse Studies: Data Management and Infrastructure Needs”.
Emily Lethbridge
Icelandic Saga Map and Nafnið.is
Emily works on medieval Icelandic manuscripts and literary culture, landscape and place-names.
Ermenegilda Rachel Müller
Háskóli Íslands/Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
I am writing a PhD dissertation at the University of Iceland about the parallel diffusion of the sagas of the Icelanders in manuscripts and print in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I am interested in the online cataloguing of manuscripts, printed books, and paper watermarks, and in the applications of data science in bibliography and codicology. During my studies, I worked for different DH projects at HÍ and the Árni Magnússon Institute.
Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir
Handrit.is / Landsbókasafn Íslands, Reykjavík
Specialist at the Manuscript Department, National and University Library of Iceland from 2017 ;
Project manager at The Sigurður Nordal Institute / The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies 2004-2017 ;
Independent scholar since 2000.
MA in History from the University of Iceland, 2002 ; Musicology and paleography at The University of Pisa, Italy, 2000-2001 ;
BA in History and Linguistics from the University of Iceland, 2000 ; Musical studies at the Reykjavík College of Music, 1991-1997.
Research field: Icelandic manuscripts 1500-1800 ; Icelandic music history ; Preservation of musical manuscripts in Iceland ;
Paleography ; Hymnology ; Musical paleography.
Juliane Tiemann
Digital Development / University of Bergen Library
Juliane Tiemann is the academic director of digital development at the University of Bergen Library. In her PhD thesis, she worked on syntactic variation in Old Norwegian and investigated factors responsible for the observed alternations. Her work includes interdisciplinary research, combining linguistics and manuscript studies. Her research interests include aspects of materiality, digitization of archive material, and the studies of charters (she is leading several projects on the Old Norwegian charter material at the University of Bergen Library; see e.g. The Seal project).
Madita Knöpfle
University of Basel / University of Zurich
Madita Knöpfle is a PhD student working on 18th and early 19th century saga literature. Her main interest lies in the materiality, textuality and narrativity of literature. In addition, she is interested in the possibilities and limitations of digital research in Scandinavian studies.
Nora Kauffeldt
University of Basel
Nora Kauffeldt is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Nordic Studies at the University of Basel and a founding member of the Basel research group for Digital Old Norse Studies. As a non-digital native, she addresses infrastructural needs for working with digital catalogues, mapping the saga geography and digital manuscript reconstructions. In her PhD, she is analyzing the narrative and material transmission of landscape knowledge in Old Icelandic manuscript compilations. Her research areas include spatial and landscape theory, historical geography, the materiality of manuscripts and the narrativity of Icelandic sagas.
Pétur Húni Björnsson
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík
Sven Kraus
University of Basel
I’m a doctoral researcher working on translation and transmission in 13th c. Norway and Iceland. In my research, I’m exploring ways of using methods like network analysis, stylometry, and graph based embedding and clustering methods. This means to a large degree experimenting with those different methods and algorithms to establish which of these can be used meaningfully in a 13th c. context.
Svenja Walkenhorst
Handschriftencensus.de / University of Marburg
With a background in medieval German and Scandinavian Studies, I’m currently a research assistant at Handschriftencensus and a PhD student in Marburg. My PhD thesis explores intersectionality in German and Scandinavian adaptations of Floire et Blancheflor. My research interests include (but are not limited to) gender and queer studies, Middle Low German literature, cultural transfer as well as the materiality of manuscripts.
Tarrin Wills
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / The Skaldic Project / Københavns Universitet
Tim Lüthi
University of Zurich
William Duba
Fragmentarium.ms / Université de Fribourg