A saga in a network and a network of a saga

Computer-assisted methods of analysis open wide possibilities for asking new research
questions and exploring new areas of textual and manuscript studies, which lie outside the reach
of traditional methods. These can be questions of historical reception of texts, ethnic genre in
literature, or authorship attribution. At the same time, computer-assisted analysis of texts
preserved in manuscript form poses numerous challenges, from the instability of manuscripts
as artefacts, through orthographic and textual variations, to multiple reworkings of texts. The
proposed paper illustrates some of these possibilities and challenges on an example of the
transmission history of a single Old Norse saga: Hrómundar saga Greipssonar. The presentation
will be based my doctoral thesis defended at the University of Copenhagen in December 2018.
In my unpublished thesis I examined the textual transmission of Hrómundar saga in multiple
manuscripts from perspective of material philology (Nichols 1990; 1997) and transmiss

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