NorseMap

We were really excited to contribute a video on the Viking brand for this new exhibition on 'Vikingmania', and to receive an invitation to the opening reception at the Museum of Danish America. Congrats to all involved!

The first publication arising from the NorseMap Project is now available open-access via Boydell & Brewer. It looks at the recent use of the Vikings in and around the MAGA movement.

It can be viewed here: https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/?fileid=-47834

[Image: Oscar A. Wergeland, 'Nordmennene lander på Island år 872' (1877), Public Domain.]

We gave a sneak preview of the iViking Cultural Heritage Collection App at the School of English and DH Research Day at UCC yesterday. It is almost there!

NorseMap represented at the exciting launch of the Future Humanities Institute at UCC by this wonderful historical photograph of a cat dressed as Brynhildr, from the Library of Congress archives (should point out that we are not a climate services project though!)

Mention of a few Old Norse pronouns as well in this BBC article featuring discussion with the PI of NorseMap.

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

One from the archives: on this day in 1936, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story with the headline 'Remains Of Viking Longship Found In Waimanalo Quarry'...

https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/vikings_in_hawaii

Preview of the first publication coming out of the NorseMap Project, funded by the European Research Council: a piece by PI Tom Birkett on Vikings in and around the MAGA movement, for SiM 35. The full article will be published open access by Boydell & Brewer in the coming weeks.

📌NorseMap is hiring!📌 The latest position on the project is a 3-year postdoctoral role looking at branding and the cultural economy (think everything from Viking cruises, to Waterford's Viking Triangle). More about the position available here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap/meettheteam/vacanciesavailable/

Tom has written a summary of the NorseMap project for the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies blog, with the intriguing title history, heritage and hipsters!

The Village Green: Mapping the Vikings: history, heritage, and hipsters Tom Birkett, University College Cork Twelve hundred years on from the first raid on Ireland’s shores, why do Vikings remain so prominent in popular culture? This is one of the questions asked by No…

NorseMap is presenting on the use of runes in company branding and visual identity at this wonderful conference in Munich.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for its next team member: a 3-year postdoc with a background in Politics or Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!

https://www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap/meettheteam/vacanciesavailable/