On 23 September 1991, to commemorate 750 years since the death of Snorri Sturluson, the Icelandic government established a fellowship grant fund in his name. The fellows for this year have been announced.
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies has now completed the transfer of all the manuscripts in its care to its new secure storage facility in Edda.
Each year, the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic studies selects the Word of the Year. Ten words are selected as representative of the year in some way, but the word deemed the most notable in 2024 is Hraunkæling (lava cooling).
Gripla, an international peer-reviewed ISI journal of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Manuscript Studies, Literature, and Folklore, has been published with eleven academic articles and editions of shorter texts.
The Rímur Poetry of Ten Kvæðamenn: Research on Variations is now available as an e-book, featuring audio examples of the poetry. he book recounts the collection and study of rímur performance by ten kvæðamenn between 1964 and 1971.
The opening weekend of the exhibition The World in Words at Edda was a resounding success, with over 1,000 visitors coming to view Iceland’s heritage manuscripts.
The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to), dating from around 1270, has been made available as part of a new series of electronic text editions, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ Electronicæ.
On Monday, November 11, the first medieval manuscripts were transferred from the campus building Árnagarður to a new secure storage facility in Edda. These manuscripts had been stored in a specialized vault in Árnagarður for nearly 55 years, since the early 1970s.
On Friday, October 4, the Icelandic-German online dictionary LEXÍA was formally launched during the 40th anniversary celebration of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna.
Author Salman Rushdie recently traveled to Iceland to receive the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize. During his trip, he toured the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
