Amina Otto

About Amina’s Research:

This project is an interdisciplinary and multilingual investigation of evolving early medieval identities around the Scandinavian-controlled Irish Sea from the late eighth century to the mid twelfth century. This was a pivotal era of dynamic identity renegotiation which led to the production of several cultural identities in the Insular Viking Zone. This process of identity production is expressed in both material culture and textual sources that span multiple languages, regions and genres. This research proposes to analyse both texts and archaeological sources from these communities as case studies to examine the Scandinavian-Insular hybridisation and identity formation process.