Mapping The Icelandic Folktales & Sagas
The official population of Republic of Iceland is solely to a greater extent than or less a tertiary of a million. However official population figures tend non to include the huldufólk, or the hidden people. The huldufólk are a race of elves that alive inward the rocks together with hillsides of Iceland.
Much of what nosotros know well-nigh the huldufólk comes from the Icelandic folk tales which were recorded together with written downwardly past times 18th together with 19th century storytellers. These Icelandic folk tales tin sack forthwith hold upward explored inward a novel interactive map. The Sagnagrunnur interactive map allows yous to explore the locations mentioned inward Icelandic folk legends together with honor to a greater extent than well-nigh the legends together with the storytellers associated with those locations.
The map shows all the places mentioned inward the Icelandic folk tales together with besides shows where the storytellers together with legend collectors lived. The map includes an extensive search engine which allows yous to search the map for the legends of a detail storyteller, legends from a detail collection together with for legends that accept identify inward a detail county.
The medieval Icelandic identify unit of measurement sagas are prose histories describing the lives of the kickoff few generations of settlers inward Republic of Iceland inward the piece of cake 9th, 10th, together with 11th centuries. The Icelandic Saga Map allows yous to read each of the Icelandic Sagas amongst an interactive map showing the locations of all the places mentioned inward these historic tales.
When yous lead an private saga from the Icelandic Saga Map homepage yous are presented with the text of the storey amongst an interactive map. Locations inward the saga are hyperlinked to the map. Therefore equally yous read the saga yous tin sack lead place-names mentioned inward the text to sentiment its location on the interactive map. Alternatively yous tin sack click on the locations tagged on the map to jump to the parts inward the texts where they are mentioned inward the Sagas.
When reading an private saga yous tin sack role the Sagas card (top right) to besides overlay the locations mentioned inward whatever of the other Sagas on the interactive map.