Map Of Midgard Project update: 600 mappoints completed & counting!

 I've successfully plotted 600 mappoints for my Map Of Midgard Project!

This is the fifth update since the initial blog post, the first update, the second update, the third update, and the fourth update.

As of now, I've finished reading & researching the last of the included book sources, The Sagas of Fridthjof the Bold. Fridthjof proved far more time consuming in terms of mapping. While fornaldarsögur (legendary sagas) are our favourites, they then require a lot of extrapolation & speculative assignment depending how inexact/exotic/otherworldly locational they get, but when dealing in the currency of legends and applying that to mythic cartography, it's sometimes all you have to go on short of actually confirming through fieldwork and digging up a magic sword.† You're given pieces and then have to search past the boundaries of those pieces to find those mappoints.

[runic map puzzle piece from Ultima: Shroud of the Avatar.]

For the last additions, I'm currently working on a remaining backlist with 340 locations left to attempt to map that we've complied during earlier research (from a previous grand total of 360). Many of these were backlisted since they weren't immediately mappable, so they now either finally get set aside as points with just not enough data for even assigning suppositional locations, or I can finally nail them down given my accrued experience of nearly five years of working on this map.

We suspect around 750 mappoints by time of publication, so this update puts the project at the 4/5th's mark, if our estimate is correct.

Hit that blue follow button & stay tuned to NorsePlay for more updates & announcements about my Map Of Midgard Project.

DescriptionLandvættir. 

"There must be ready and generous cooperation between experts in different fields of knowledge if we are to make profitable use of the wealth of new information piling up concerning the pagan religion from which the myths emerged." 

~ H.R. Ellis Davidson

† Sword Footnote: We actually have accrued mappoint data for such swords, so do note I am available as a guide & site consultant for archaeological endeavours.

#    #    #

Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.