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neurolinguistics

2017.10.11

Our brain omits grammatical elements when it has limited resources

A study of the use of pronouns by French speakers with agrammatic aphasia shows that grammatical…

2017.10.09

Tenure-track assistant professorship in Danish as a second language

The Department Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites…

Miracle of the Week

2017.10.06

Here is told of the Office of Our Lady

This is Gazo. Gazo refused to pray to the Virgin Mary. Gazo's impiety caused a band of violent men…

Miracle of the Week

2017.09.29

Our Lady gives a woman back her sanity

We continue our series of Marian Miracles as transcribed by the Master Class of this year's…

archaeolinguistics

2017.09.29

Scandinavia’s earliest farmers exchanged terminology with Indo-Europeans

5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to…

Miracle of the Week

2017.09.22

Monks prayed for abbot

We all know the type: a saint by day but when out with his mates a foul-mouthed lout. This week the…

Festschrift

2017.09.20

Congratulate Peter Springborg

Peter Springborg, former director of the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen, will turn 80 on 28…

PhD Scholarship

2017.09.15

PhD Scholarship in grammaticalisation and the grammatical changes of Middle Danish

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, University of…

Miracle of the Week

2017.09.15

Wrongdoers rightened

This week Mary saves St Hugh of Cluny from some bad hombres.

Manuscript of the Month

2017.09.08

The Húsavík Letters - A Medieval Faroese Diploma

A diploma from the beginning of the fifteenth century is written in an early form of Faroese and…

Miracle of the Week

2017.09.08

Gossiping monks

Each week we will publish one miracle from the collection of Marian miracles preserved in the…

2017.09.04

New project member at “Homeland” project

Mikkel Nørtoft is employed as a research assistant at the “Homeland” project from 1 September 2017…

Manuscript of the Month

2017.08.15

Medieval romance in early modern Iceland

Rask 33 39r: Large initial at the beginning of part 2 of the saga. (Click on the picture for a…

Institutfusion

2017.07.03

INSS merges with NFI under new acronym: NorS

From 1 September 2017 the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (INSS) merges with the…

Manuscript of the month

2017.06.16

Vermundar þáttur og Upsa (The Tale of Vermundur and Upsi) in AM 409 fol.

This short tale about a king and his heroic son, written on only two leaves of paper, is not only…

Free books

2017.06.13

Book clearance at the Department of Nordic Research

At the Department of Nordic Research we need to make room in our storage facilities and we are…

Call for papers

2017.05.18

Call for papers: Care and conservation 17

Care and conservation of manuscripts - international seminars held at the Arnamagnæan Institute,…

Medieval charters

2017.05.15

Patronage and Memory in a Medieval Charter

A charter from 1259 issued by Archbishop Jakob Erlandsen charter situates him within a vast web of…

A new discovery

2017.05.03

A sensational discovery: Fragment of lost Norwegian royal charter from circa 1205 rediscovered in old book cover

A unique parchment fragment was recently discovered at The Arnamagnæan Institute.

New publication

2017.04.26

Mirrors of virtue: Manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland

Margrét Eggertsdóttir and Matthew James Driscoll (eds.): Mirrors of virtue. Manuscript and print in…