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.

According to the grant’s guidelines issued in 1992, the funds shall be used annually to invite foreign authors, translators, and scholars to spend time in Iceland to increase their knowledge and awareness of the Icelandic language, culture, and society. The fellowships are offered for at least three months to cover the fellows’ travel costs and accommodation in Iceland.

The call for Snorri Sturluson Fellowships for 2026 was announced last September with a deadline of 1 December.

The fellows for this year are as follows:

• Dr Alice Raw, Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, will be working on a new book, Wandering Ware: Adventurous Genitalia in the Middle Ages. In Medieval North and Western Europe, there was a tradition of ‘wandering ware’ stories, in which genitalia become animate, acting or speaking independently of their owners. The book will combine retellings of selected tales with reflections on contemporary philosophy of sexuality, consent, and desire.
• Santiago R. Ibáñez Lluch, translator of historical works from Valencia, Spain, will be working on a translation of the last seven books of Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum. Having previously translated and annotated the first nine books of the work, as well as a number of Icelandic fornaldarsögur connected to Saxo’s epic and mythic world, in this forthcoming translation he will pay particular attention to historical events also narrated in Icelandic sources such as Knýtlinga saga and Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla.

Further information about the Fellowships and the application process.