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  Chronicle of the Slavs in the Arnamangæan Collection

  2019.03.15

  While the twelfth century is generally associated with great social, political and economic transformations and cultural development in Western Europe, there was one area of Medieval Europe which did not fit the general… »

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  New Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute

  2019.02.21

  The Irish scholar Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship.… »

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  Rask 113: A Ballad Manuscript in Two Parts

  2019.02.15

  A small 22-page manuscript, half Danish, half Faroese, tells the story of a common interest in Faroese literature.… »

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  Summer School Registration

  2019.02.01

  The Arnamagnæan Institute is pleased to announce that the next edition of the Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies will take place at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of… »

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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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