Vikings and superheroes: How interconnected characters may reveal the reality behind the stories
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 14:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Icelandic sagas of the Norse people are thousand-year-old chronicles of brave deeds and timeless romances, but how true to Viking life were they? Writing in Significance, Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna use a statistical network of associations between characters to find out.