Launch of the iViking heritage collection app
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Norwegian musician Einar Selvik helped the NorseMap Project to launch their pioneering iViking app.
Earlier in the month, UCC’s NorseMap Project was publicly launched with an epic concert from acclaimed Norwegian musician and founder of Wardruna, Einar Selvik. The launch took place in the atmospheric venue of St Peter’s Church, at the centre of what was the Hiberno-Norse settlement in Cork. Einar demonstrated various reconstructed instruments that might have been heard in the Viking Age, as well as performing his unique original compositions based on Norse poetry. The event also included a Viking market, with guests treated to displays from six reenactment groups from across Ireland, demonstrating everything from rope-making to weaponry, as well as some reconstructed finds from Cork. Guests included the Lord Mayor of Cork, Damien Boylan, the Ambassador of Denmark to Ireland, Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, and the Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, Professor Stephen Graham. The event was organised to launch the NorseMap Project, an EU-funded project which aims to map the reception and legacy of the Vikings across Europe. Also launched was the recently developed iViking app, the project’s key means for collecting data on the way the Vikings are used and interpreted. iViking is a heritage-engagement and photo-sharing app that allows users to contribute photos of Viking heritage when they encounter it. It is designed around the principle of knowledge-exchange, with contributors receiving facts and images related to their submission, and seeing their contribution mapped and added to the growing archive. iViking is available for Android and iPhone at the various app stores. The NorseMap Project is based in the School of English and Digital Humanities, and affiliated with the Future Humanities Institute. More information about the project can be found at www.norsemap.eu
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