Dr Katarzyna Anna Kapitan

Katarzyna Anna Kapitan is a manuscript scholar and digital humanist specialising in Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture. She holds the Junior Professor Chair in Computational Analysis of Written Cultures in Western Space at the École nationale des chartes – PSL University. Her research interests include the transmission and circulation history of literary works in the intellectual networks of pre-modern Scandinavia, digital scholarly editing of pre-modern texts and digital cataloguing of manuscripts, as well as the application of computational approaches to estimating the loss rates of medieval works and manuscripts. Her recent monograph, Lost but not forgotten: the Saga of Hrómundur and its manuscript transmission (Oxford 2024), examined the transmission history of the post-medieval adaptations of the lost medieval saga of Hrómundur, a legendary great-grandfather of the first settlers of Iceland, Ingólfur and Leifur. The study includes text-critical editions of three versions of the story, which are also available online as interactive digital editions.