Graph datasets for Irish and Viking character relationships in the medieval Irish text 'Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh' ('The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill')
Originator:
Joseph Yose (Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK);
Ralph Kenna (Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK);
Máirín MacCarron (Department of History, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RA, UK);
Pádraig MacCarron (Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK)
Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh ('The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill') is a medieval Irish narrative which contains information on the Viking age in Ireland. Social-network data are embedded in the texts. The source of these data is an edition/translation into English by James Henthorn Todd [Todd JH (ed. and trans.) 1867 Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh. The war of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, or, the invasions of Ireland by the Danes and other Norsemen. London, UK: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer]. Data are identified by carefully and manually reading Todd's texts with multiple passes through all of the material by multiple readers.
The data resource contains a Dataset of 315 characters and their nationalities extracted from the Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh, a full Graph network of unsigned edges (315 vertices, 1190 edges), a positive (friendly) Graph network (287 vertices, 957 edges), and a negative (hostile) Graph network (180 vertices, 264 edges).
Examples
Basic Examples
Retrieve the resource:
Retrieve the default content:
Some helper functions:
Create network Graph objects for the full cast, Irish, and Viking networks.
Network plots
A useful graph embedding function:
Network statistics
Categorical assortativity
Network robustness
We use a normalized betweenness centrality
We are interested in the closeness centrality of a node only if it is a member of the giant component.
Stability of the giant component
Bibliographic Citation
Robert Nachbar,
"Irish-Viking Networks in 'Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh'"
from the Wolfram Data Repository
(2018)
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