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

苏格兰的北方边境在中世纪时期仍然是一个神秘的空间与跨国联系。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。《奥克尼因加佐贺》是一部世纪在冰岛写成的古挪威语文本，描述了斯堪的纳维亚王朝的职业生涯，该王朝控制着由北方岛屿和凯斯内斯组成的伯爵领地。Orkneyinga佐贺包含家谱信息，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人。这个项目将使用奥克尼佐贺和其他传奇的家谱来绘制来自奥克尼、挪威、冰岛、苏格兰和其他地方的个人之间的家庭关系，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，并揭示维持维京海盗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.