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Viking sagas: Six degrees of Icelandic separation Social networks from the Viking era
Article first published online: 18 DEC 2013
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00704.x
© 2013 The Royal Statistical Society
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Mac Carron, P. and Kenna, R. (2013), Viking sagas: Six degrees of Icelandic separation Social networks from the Viking era. Significance, 10: 12–17. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00704.x
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- Issue published online: 18 DEC 2013
- Article first published online: 18 DEC 2013
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The Icelandic sagas are thousand-year-old stories of brave deeds and lives and loves, with a cast of thousands – but how true to life are they? Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna analyse the interactions between the characters and find that social networks of the Viking era were very similar to those of today.
