Sagnagrunnur
Sagnagrunnur is a geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends. The [...]


Sagnagrunnur is a geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends. The database involves a distribution map of published Icelandic legends, and is connected to both the homes of the original storytellers and collectors and those places mentioned in the legends (which can still be found). Most of these legends come from […]

Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og ævintýri: Origin, context and collection 1864 – 2014
The central aim of this three-year project is to document the collection and publication process [...]


The central aim of this three-year project is to document the collection and publication process of Jón Árnason’s Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri (1862-1864) and the other materials collected as part of that project in the form of an extensive, freely-accessible and user-friendly digital archive closely integrated with relevant Icelandic and international manuscript collections, databases and websites, […]

Icelandic Saga Map
The Icelandic Saga Map is intended as a resource to guide specialists and non-specialists alike [...]


The Icelandic Saga Map is intended as a resource to guide specialists and non-specialists alike around the Íslendingasögur from a spatial perspective. On it, places named in the sagas are hyper-linked to their occurrences in the saga texts. There are also links to images of places and to other sources of information concerning them (e.g. […]

Moravian Memoirs
The Moravian Memoirs project is a collaboration between the Center for Digital Humanities and the [...]


The Moravian Memoirs project is a collaboration between the Center for Digital Humanities and the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies at University of Gothenburg, Bucknell University, USA, The Moravian Archive in Herrnhut, Germany and The Moravian Archive in Bethlehem, USA. Search among over 60 000 Memoirs written by members of the Moravian church from 1750 […]