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Explainer on language history from videnskab.dk

Danish popular science site videnskab.dk has published an explainer (in Danish) on language history…

Thomas Olander appointed professor of Indo-European Studies

After three years in the promotion programme, Thomas Olander has been appointed professor of…

Streaming culture creates new digital communities for film fans

In a new book, media researcher Helle Kannik Haastrup explores how TV series and films can both…

Manuscript of the Month

Three Scripts, One Scribe: Ingólfr Dagfinsson and his Lawbook AM 68 4to

Medieval scribes were skilled in multiple script types. A Norwegian legal manuscript from the…

New book on the history of the Danish language

Thomas Olander’s book Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age]…

New book: Sub-Indo-European Europe

New book published (Open Access): Guus Kroonen (ed.). 2024. Sub-Indo-European Europe:…

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg featured at videnskab.dk

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg, who holds a PhD degree from the Roots of Europe centre and is now a postdoc a…

Thomas Olander elected vice president of the Society for Indo-European Studies

At the General Assembly of the Society for Indo-European Studies in Basel on 10 September 2024,…

New book: Power, gender, and mobility

New book out! Power, gender, and mobility: Aspects of Indo-European society. Edited by Riccardo…

New PhD student at Roots of Europe: Tore Rovs Kristoffersen

On 1 September 2024, the Roots of Europe centre will have a new PhD student: Tore Rovs…

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated: new research project

New book: Indo-European interfaces

The volume Indo-European interfaces: Integrating linguistics, mythology and archaeology has been…

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Danish scribes and German Bibles

Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish…

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The Danish Conquest of Dithmarschen

The Low German law codex AM 2 4to contains the younger redaction of the Land Law of Dithmarschen. A…

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One final dictionary from the first Faroese lexicographer

The Faroe Islands’ first lexicographer kept producing manuscripts of his dictionary until his death…

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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…

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…

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…

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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…

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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.,…