From excavation to the interdisciplinary perspective - The Reykholt Project

• Main Author: Bergur Þorgeirsson
• Other Authors: Skandinavistik / Universität Tübingen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Tübingen 2004
• Subjects: Saga; Island; 839; Reykholt; excavation; archeological research; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/46201; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-10638

A international research project has been developed in connection with the famous historical site, Reykholt, in Western Iceland.1 The project, called The Reykholt Project, is centred on the most well-known and powerful medieval Icelander, the historian, poet and politician, Snorri Sturluson, born 1178 or 1179, died 1241. There are many reliable written sources on Snorri, and now, in recent years, the medieval ruins that possibly represent Snorri s own housing and surroundings in Reykholt have been unearthed. The project, progressive in its methods and scientific aproach, has therefore great potential.