Abstract
The Icelandic sagas are thousand-year-old stories of brave deeds and lives and loves, with a cast of thousands - but how true to life are they? Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna analyse the interactions between the characters and find that social networks of the Viking era were very similar to those of today.
Publisher statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mac Carron, P., & Kenna, R. (2013). Viking sagas: Six degrees of Icelandic separation Social networks from the Viking era. Significance, volume 10 (6): 12-17, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00704.x . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving'.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 12-17 |
| Journal | Significance |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Bibliographical note
The full text of this item is not available from the repository.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mac Carron, P., & Kenna, R. (2013). Viking sagas: Six degrees of Icelandic separation Social networks from the Viking era. Significance, volume 10 (6): 12-17, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00704.x . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving'.
Keywords
- Icelandic sagas
- social networks
- statistical analysis
- network theory