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.
In this first version, users can look up words in three dictionaries maintained by the Árni Magnússon Institute: the Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic, the Icelandic-English Dictionary, and the Icelandic-Polish Dictionary.
Thirty students from different parts of the world including Asia, the Americas, Australia, and Europe, came to take part in this four-week intensive programme.
This year, five new scholarships and seven continuing scholarships were awarded to students at foreign universities to study the BA Programme in Icelandic as a Second Language.
This year, the course was attended by 54 students from 17 countries, with instruction provided by 21 teachers. Students had the opportunity to both examine and work with manuscripts, including writing on vellum with quill pens and ink.
The Geophysics Terminology Collection is now online at the Icelandic Term Bank. An accessible bilingual terminology collection for geophysics is an essential resource for students, instructors and professionals in the field.
The call for Snorri Sturluson Fellowships for 2024 was announced last July with a deadline of 1 December. The fellows for this year have been announced.
The institute has moved almost entirely into the newly built Edda. It seemed an opportune time for a general redesign of the visual aspects that have come to distinguish the institute.
