| Article ID: | iaor20135481 |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 12 |
| End Page Number: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Journal: | Significance |
| Authors: | MacCarron Padraig, Kenna Ralph |
| Keywords: | social, statistics: general |
The Icelandic sagas are thousand-year-old stories of brave deeds and lives and loves, with a cast of thousands ‐ but how true to life are they? This paper analyses the interactions between the characters and find that social networks of the Viking era were very similar to those of today.