Description
The research project Kvennaspor: Unearthing and Foregrounding Women in Icelandic Saga Landscapes was funded by Rannís in 2023. Focusing on (1) how women are represented in landscape contexts in medieval Icelandic narrative sources (especially Íslendingasögur), and (2) 19th- and 20th-century accounts of travel to Iceland by women, the project highlights ways that women have been marginalised and even written out of landscape contexts over time. Data collection is a core part of research and the project’s academic and creative outputs build directly on this foundational work. From a feminist DH perspective, the project database contributes to other efforts to foreground forgotten and sidelined women, redressing the historical imbalance and chiming with bigger discourses about how biases of various kinds shape society, with the result that some stories gain dominance at the expense of others. As well as discussing the broader theoretical framing of our database work, and providing a brief “behind-the-scenes” tour, I will reflect on how this project database has grown out (and utilises) data from other DH projects, notably Icelandic Saga Map and Nafnið.is.| Period | 11 Nov 2025 |
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| Event title | Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Reykjavík, IcelandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |