Map Of Midgard Project update: 500 mappoints completed & counting!
I've successfully plotted 500 mappoints for my Map Of Midgard Project! This is the fourth update since the initial blog post , the first update , the second update , and the third update . Currently I'm finishing up post-reading mappoints from the Landnámabók (the Icelandic Book of Settlements ), which features an exhaustive survey of 3,000 people and their 1,400 settlements, initially listing 435 men as the first settlers and then moving temporally & spatially forward with the usually genealogies that all Icelandic sources are self-documented with. While the historical importance of the Landnámabók is inarguable, I realize that the above numbers could sound instead like using a boring phone book to make a boring land survey, so I totally want to reassure you the project is category specific, and within that I'm very discerning in terms of using only the really fascinating locations for the Map Of Midgard , of which Landnámabók actually has many amazing nutshell s