Norse World
The Norse perception of the World
Norse World is an interactive spatial-temporal resource for research on spatiality and worldviews in medieval literature from Sweden and Denmark.
Project description
The Norse perception of the world: A mapping and analysis of foreign place names in medieval Swedish and Danish texts
Fornnordisk omvärldsuppfattning: En kartering och analys av utländska ortnamn i svenska och danska texter från medeltiden
The Norse Perception of the World project is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2017–2020) to create an online, searchable index of foreign place names and other spatial references in medieval Swedish and Danish texts with mapping capabilities.