Manuscript of the Month 2024.04.15 Danish scribes and German Bibles Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish…
Manuscript of the Month 2024.03.15 The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen The Low German law codex AM 2 4to contains the younger redaction of the Land Law of Dithmarschen. A…
Manuscript of the Month 2024.02.14 One final dictionary from the first Faroese lexicographer The Faroe Islands’ first lexicographer kept producing manuscripts of his dictionary until his death…
Manuscript of the Month 2024.01.15 From Margrethe to Frederik: Danish history as told by royal lines A new chapter of Danish history was written Sunday, 14 January 2024 with the succession of the new…
Podcast 2024.01.03 eLetter featured in the »Indo-European News« podcast episode The eLetter in Science written by many of the Copenhagen Roots in response to the controversial…
Podcast 2024.01.03 New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on…
Manuscript of the Month 2023.12.15 A Prayer Book for the Entire Year — And Every Occasion December means another year is coming to a close, at least according to our modern secular calendar…
Manuscript of the Month 2023.11.15 Let me guide you through this! The interaction between scribe and readers in the main manuscript of Konungs skuggsjá The oldest and most complete manuscript of the Old Norwegian Konungs skuggsjá, AM 243 bα fol.,…
Manuscript of the Month 2023.10.15 Learned prehistory and Danish genealogies A miscellany manuscript written by several hands contains some genealogical material thought to…
Manuscript of the Month 2023.09.15 An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione…
2023.06.27 Matthew Scarborough receives Marie Curie fellowship Matthew Scarborough has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for…
2022.12.19 Three new publications In connection with the project Infrastrukturalisme funded by the Carlsberg Foundation three new…
archaeology 2021.10.20 Origin of domestic horses finally established Horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes, northern Caucasus, before conquering…
Culture 2021.08.20 Norwegian Minister Visits the Arnamagnæan Collection The Arnamagnæan Institute received a visit from Norway’s Minister of Culture and Equality Abid Raja…
climate 2021.02.02 Misguided sense of balance exacerbates climate scepticism Many of us may have inadvertently contributed to the growing climate scepticism of recent years, a…
Manuscript of the Month 2020.10.15 Behold! A Funen Clog! Humorous marginal drawings are not uncommon in medieval manuscripts. The wooden shoe from Funen…
Manuscript of the Month 2020.09.15 Revising Danish Royal Genealogies Anno 1664 Since the time of Saxo Grammaticus and his monumental Gesta Danorum, Danish royal lineage was trace…
Manuscript of the Month 2020.05.15 Indulgences for nuns in the early days of print A handwritten letter of indulgence given to the Poor Clares of Roskilde tells the story of…
Manuscript of the Month 2020.04.14 A Low German fragment of St Birgitta's Heavenly Revelations AM 79 8vo consists of a heterogeneous collection of medieval manuscript fragments in several…
Manuscript of the Month 2020.03.13 Getting a fair share: an Icelandic letter of partition from 1673 Two small fragments found in the binding of an Icelandic manuscript tell the story of how a farmer…