Kinship Connections and the Earldom of Orkney c. 900-1263

苏格兰在中世纪时期的北部边境仍然是一个充满跨国联系的神秘空间。对这片边疆的更清晰理解有可能改变我们对苏格兰民族起源的看法。为了发现这些新的见解，需要创新的技术来解释复杂的文学证据。《奥克尼加传奇》是13世纪在冰岛写成的古挪威文本，描述了一个控制着北岛和凯斯内斯伯爵领地的斯堪的纳维亚王朝的职业生涯。奥克尼传奇包含家谱信息，提供了奥克尼伯爵领地贵族的横截面，涵盖了许多迄今未被探索的个体。该项目将利用奥克尼岛传奇和其他传奇中的家谱，绘制出来自奥克尼岛、挪威、冰岛、苏格兰及其他地区的个人之间的家庭关系，并将文学证据与其他文件、地名和考古学进行比较。它将建立斯堪的纳维亚和苏格兰贵族之间的联系，并揭示维持维京世界相互联系的关系。

Scotland's northern frontier during the medieval era remains a mysterious space with transnational connections. A clearer understanding of this borderland has the potential to transform how we view the origins of the Scottish nation. To discover these new insights, innovative techniques are required to interpret complex literary evidence. Orkneyinga saga, an Old Norse text composed in Iceland in the thirteenth century, describes the careers of a Scandinavian dynasty which controlled the earldom comprising of the Northern Isles and Caithness. Orkneyinga saga contains genealogical information which provides a cross-section of the Orkney earldom's aristocracy, covering many hitherto unexplored individuals. This project will use Orkneyinga saga and genealogies from other sagas to map out the family relationships between individuals from Orkney, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, and beyond, comparing the literary evidence with other documents, place names, and archaeology. It will establish the connections between the aristocracies of Scandinavia and Scotland and reveal the relationships which maintained the interconnectivity of the Viking world.