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  AM 370 fol. Antiquities from the Bergen District

  2019.01.15

  In the Arnamagnæan collection, there are six illustrated manuscripts, AM 366 fol.-AM 371 fol., all addressed to the King’s physician, natural historian and antiquarian, Ole Worm (1588-1654). What all these manuscripts… »

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  HRH Prince Joachim films documentary at the Arnamagnæan Institute

  2019.01.08

  In November last year, HRH Prince Joachim, younger son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, visited the Arnamagnæan Institute while filming a new documentary series that will be broadcast on Danish television in the autumn.… »

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  Guðmundar Saga B Released

  2018.12.03

  Part 2 of Guðmundar sögur biskups (Sagas of the Bishop Gudmund) has just been published in Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. The edition, which was started by Stefán Karlsson, who died before he could complete the work, was… »

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  Matthew Driscoll awarded Honorary Prize for 2018

  2018.11.19

  Matthew Driscoll, Professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Copenhagen, is to be awarded the Einar Hansen Research Foundation’s Honorary Prize for 2018 in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of… »

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  Annette Lassen awarded Research Prize for 2018

  2018.11.19

  Annette Lassen, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, is to be awarded the Einar Hansen Research Foundation’s Research Prize for 2018 for her research in the literature of medieval Iceland and its… »

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  Rasmus Rask's Investigation Turns 200 in 2018

  2018.11.14

  Rasmus Rask's foundational text on the origin of Icelandic was originally written as a prize essay. The Arnamagnæan Collection holds a copy of the first printed edition, which turns 200 years old this year, with notes… »

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  Images of Manuscripts in NorS Digital Collections

  2018.11.09

  In addition to the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, the Arnamagnæan Institute also holds one of the biggest archives of photographs of Nordic manuscripts in the World, a total of 1,2 million photographs of manuscripts… »

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  Notes from the Sixteenth Century: AM 828 4to

  2018.10.15

  For the most part, AM 828 4to contains critical notes and commentaries about classical works by the sixteenth-century scholar Pedro Chacón.… »

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  AM 673 b 4to: The Oldest manuscript of medieval Scandinavia's most prolific poetic form

  2018.09.14

  20 September is the feast of St. Eustace in the Western Christian calendar and this month’s manuscript commemorates the saint in poetic form, namely the so-called Plácitusdrápa (‘poem with refrains about Placidus (St.… »

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  Materiality of Manuscripts

  2018.09.06

  “Materiality of Manuscripts”: Call for Papers for sponsored sessions at the International Medieval Congress 2019, 1-4 July 2019, University of Leeds, UK. Sponsor: Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen,… »

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