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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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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.

Care and conservation of manuscripts - international seminars held at the Arnamagnæan Institute, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen

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

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…

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.

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.

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

Students from the course about East Norse enjoy a sunny tour of Jægerspris Castle and Memorial Park.