Hjaltland Network – Mapping Viking Age Shetland
Hjaltland Network – Mapping Viking Age Shetland
Responsable du projet/Project leader : Andrew Jennings (andrew.jennings@nafc.uhi.ac.uk)
Établissement principal/Main institution : University of the Highlands and Islands
Mapping Viking Age Shetland will seek, through the digitising and mapping of the datasets of each discipline, to answer many of the unresolved questions about Shetland’s Viking Age, such as:
– what happened to the pre-Viking population,
– the date of Viking settlement,
– the origins of the Norse settlers and the anomaly of the divergent origins of the male and female lines,
– the nature of Shetland’s connections to the Celtic world,
– the intensity of settlement and the extent and duration of Norse pagan beliefs and folk traditions.
Mapping Viking Age Shetland will be a truly interdisciplinary approach to Viking-Age research, applying the latest technological advances and innovative new research in the various scientific and technological fields, which will allow for the teasing out of additional information from existing sources and the uncovering of new evidence, onomastic, genetic and isotopic.
Mapping Viking Age Shetland itself will be the pilot for a larger scale project, calledMSGI: Migration, Settlement and Genetic Inheritance: Mapping the Legacy of the Viking Age.
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Rédaction (16 décembre 2014). Hjaltland Network – Mapping Viking Age Shetland. Mondes nordiques et normands médiévaux. Consulté le 18 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/riko