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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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  Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies

  2018.07.31

  The Arnamagnæan Institute organises an annual summer school in manuscript studies in cooperation with the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík and the National and University Library of Iceland. It… »

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  Priceless manuscripts on loan to Iceland

  2018.07.06

  Yesterday two manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection were flown to Iceland, where they will be on display in the exhibition Lífsblómið - Fullveldi Íslands í 100 ár (Blossoming - Iceland’s 100 Years as a… »

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  Modern technology casts new light on old manuscripts

  2018.06.17

  One of the treasures of the Arnamagnaean Collection is the manuscript AM 468 4to, which dates from the beginning of the fourteenth century and is known by the nickname Reykjabók (‘the book of Reykir’). It contains the… »

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