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 on Monday, 16 August. The minister was accompanied by a delegation from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality…
2019.03.22 A New Discovery in the Arnamagnæan Collection Recently, a major discovery was made, when one of the manuscripts in the collection, AM 377 fol., an enormous codex of nearly 2000 pages, was identified as being one of the volumes of indices prepared in the library of…
Research 2019.02.21 New Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute The Irish scholar Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship.
2019.02.01 Summer School Registration 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…
Danish history 2019.01.08 HRH Prince Joachim films documentary at the Arnamagnæan Institute 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…
2018.12.03 Guðmundar Saga B Released 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…
2018.11.19 Annette Lassen awarded Research Prize for 2018 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…
2018.11.19 Matthew Driscoll awarded Honorary Prize for 2018 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…
Digitisation 2018.11.09 Images of Manuscripts in NorS Digital Collections 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…
2018.09.06 Materiality of Manuscripts “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, Denmark…
Summer School 2018.07.31 Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies 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. I…
Cultural Heritage 2018.07.06 Priceless manuscripts on loan to Iceland 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…
Networking 2017.11.02 Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse Over forty young researchers participated in the inaugural workshop of NECRON (the Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse) held at the Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics on the 21-22.10.2017.
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, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen
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 late pre-modern Iceland. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLIX. Opuscula XV. 2017. Museum Tusculanums Press. Pre-modern Icelan…
summer school, manuscripts, NFI 2017.03.06 Registration for the Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies Registration is currently open for the two-week summer course in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, which will take place in Copenhagen 7-18 August 2015. The deadline for registration is 1 April 2017.
East Norse, Philology, Manuscript Studies, Conference, Call for Papers 2017.01.30 Call for Papers: Conference in East Norse Philology The third conference from the Society for East Norse Philology takes place in Copenhagen 18-20 October 2017. Deadline for abstracts (250 words) is 13 March 2017.
Summer school 2017.01.10 Summer school in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies Registration is now open for the summer school in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies, which will be held from the 7th to the 18th of August 2017
2016.09.25 Excursion to Jægerspris Castle and Memorial Park Students from the course about East Norse enjoy a sunny tour of Jægerspris Castle and Memorial Park.