The DH Project I chose to analyze was the Icelandic Saga Map. This is a map that tracks locations presented in different Icelandic sagas. You can choose to either track locations by saga or sagas by location. When you choose a saga, all locations in that saga are highlighted, and when you click on that location, it tells you what sagas this location is present in and which chapters of that saga it is in. You are also able to skip to different chapters in the sagas if you want to find where a specific location is. The sources used to create this map are split into two categories: The texts of the sagas and travel accounts to Iceland that followed the paths of the sagas. This includes the travel records and blogs of the project leader Dr. Emily Lethbridge. They used programming and databases of the sources previously mentioned in order to visualize those points. They then tagged each location with all the sagas that visit it, so you can navigate between sagas for each location. This source was honestly not very clear on the methods they used to create this project only having a single brief diagram. This diagram is also very vague, using the broad technology used, but none of the specifics unlike the sources which were highly specified and directly linked. This DH project is neither open source nor publicly editable. The presentation of this DH Project, however, is very clear. When you boot up the site it lets you choose a saga to follow the locations of. To the left side of the screen is a map with location markers and on the right is the text of the saga with the locations highlighted in the text that, when clicked bring you to that location. The map used is the Bing modern map of the world. This project describes its goal as being to simply increase the reading of Icelandic sagas and make it easier to do so. The project leader describes on that journey how much more she loved the Icelandic sagas (which she already loved) after she got to see with her own eyes the places they were describing and that is what she wants for people who view this site, a better understanding of these texts. In regards to the intended audience, I think it has a wide but specified audience, both academics and just people generally interested in Icelandic sagas. If I were someone who just wanted to read the Icelandic sagas, I feel like this would be a great supplementary text to view alongside my reading. If I were an academic studying or researching Icelandic sagas, then I am sure understanding where the sagas take place is very important.
