MyNDIR: My Norse Digital Image Repository

MyNDIR is the creation of Trish Baer, an adjunct professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria. Site programming is by Martin Holmes, and design is by Pat Szpak, both of the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. The acronym MyNDIR stands for My Norse Digital Image Repository and the letters that it is comprised of spell the Icelandic word for "pictures." The critical approach for the selection of illustrations is focused through the theoretical lens of Material Philology which considers books and their material details, such as covers and illustrations, as cultural artifacts. This selection criteria results in a repository of images that is capable of revealing aspects of book history, culture, and production that the words of the texts alone cannot provide. Consequently, iterations of illustrations with minimal differences are not only included but valued for their research potential, e.g., illustrations from the first and second editions of Kongesagaer published in 1899 and in 1900.