Project: Early Scandinavia
Early Scandinavia Project
Where mythology and sagas turn into legends which link into history
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| The phrase "Early Scandinavia" written in long branch runes |
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Mission
The mission of this project is to improve (and merge) the many early Scandinavian profiles on WT, both fictional and historical, until there is one profile each with some accurate information. The profiles belonging in this project should be born in a location ruled by Scandinavians and have a birth year before the year 1200.
What we include in the phrase "Early Scandinavia" is the areas that would have been ruled by what in modern-day would be the countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Once profiles have been sourced and categorised, the project should be made manager and then the main mission would be to protect and monitor the corrected profiles and perform merges of any found duplicates.
It is not our mission to add a lot of new profiles.
How to Join
Project participants need to be members of WikiTree. If you are interested in joining the project you will be given a profile to work on and that work will then be viewed by the members of the project. A Pre-1700s and Pre-1500s badge will be necessary.
- Top Level Project: Nordic
- Project Leaders: Missy Berryann
- Coordinators: Rakelle (Østenstad) Teschner
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Early Scandinavia project and get a badge.
- Add EARLY SCANDINAVIA to your followed tags.
- We use Google Groups for communication.
- Look at one of the Early Scandinavia project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
- Early Scandinavia Project Member List.
- Here is what our members are working on.
Goals
Before the Scandinavian area was christened, there were petty "kings" or chieftains who ruled smaller areas than the modern day countries. The source for many of these profiles is to be found in sagas/legends/tales written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, many hundred years later than the actual events occurred or persons described are supposed to have lived. Even the different sagas by Snorri contradict themselves sometimes. Also, some of the Norse gods, giants, valkyries and other mythological "persons" made it into the sagas (and later onto WikiTree).
There is a lot of confusion about these WikiTree profiles and the goal of this project would be to work through these early Scandinavian profiles and sort them out by:
- adding a source to the earliest mention of the person (often the work of Snorre Sturlasson) and also estimated years of birth and/or death (if it is at all possible)
- adding the "most correct" LNAB and add every other name they could possibly have had (ie different language variations) to make it absolutely clear that they actually are intended to be the same person (purpose is to identify duplicate profiles)
- propose and complete merges of these early profiles
- remove any images that don't have valid information about copyright
- if it is possible, to tie together information from sagas/legends, archaeology and historians. Example: Harald "Blåtand (Bluetooth)" Gormsson
- adding a category system for these profiles and keeping it navigable and useful
- working on error correction / suggestion list and project maintenance categories
Since many of these profiles have more than the 5-6 recommended profile managers (and almost none of the managers, nor the 30-50 people on the trusted list, have done any actual work on the profiles), the current managers will be moved to the trusted list once the project takes over as manager of the profile.
Further goals, standards and examples should be worked out with the help of the project members.
Templates
- Template:Early_Scandinavia - Project box should only be used on profiles managed by the project. (This is a general WikiTree policy for Project boxes.)
The project box should be placed above the Biography heading by adding {{Early Scandinavia}} which will result in:
| ... ... ... was part of early Scandinavian history. Join: Early Scandinavia Project Discuss: EARLY_SCANDINAVIA |
We would also like that the template for Estimated Date {{Estimated Date}} and the template for Uncertain Existance {{Uncertain Existence}} to be added to (most) profiles.
Related Projects and Groups
What we include in the phrase "Early Scandinavia" is the modern-day countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as Greenland and Iceland. Since parts of the British Isles also were considered (partly) Norwegian or Danish during the viking era, there should also be cooperation with suitable project(s) of the British Isles.
- Project Denmark
- Project Finland
- Project Norway
- Project Sweden
- Scotland Project teams:
- Project European Aristocrats
- Ireland Project subprojects:
- other suitable project(s) of the British Isles will be added later
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