On Tuesday, November 29, the new Faroese Morphological Database (Føroyska bendingargrunnurin) was opened in a ceremony at the Faroese Department of the University of the Faroe Islands in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands.

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Uniwersytet Gdański poszukuje kandydata na nowo utworzone stanowisko wykładowcy języka islandzkiego jako języka obcego. Uczelnia oferuje zatrudnienie na pełny etat od 1 września 2022 na trzy lata z możliwością przedłużenia. Od kandydata wymaga się posiadania przynajmniej stopnia magistra filologii islandzkiej lub pokrewnego wykształcenie. Dodatkowymi atutami będą: ukończony kurs pedagogiczny oraz/lub doświadczenie w nauczaniu języka islandzkiego jako języka obcego, a także znajomość języka polskiego.

A World in Fragments contains proceedings of an international conference that the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík, the Centre for Medieval Literature at the Universities of Southern Denmark and York, and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Iceland held in 2016 on the medieval Icelandic encyclopedic manuscript GKS 1812 4to. In this volume, specialists from different academic fields present studies of various aspects of the manuscript from a wide range of angles.

Several educational and scientific institutes around the world have joined the initiative Science for Ukraine. The initiative aims to support Ukrainian scientists and academics by offering assistance and temporary positions or facilities for research. The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies is taking part in the initiative and we have already extended an invitation to two academics seeking refuge.

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About the book:

Andlit á glugga (e. Face at the window) is an annotated collection of Icelandic folk- and fairy tales with modern spelling, containing around sixty stories as well as a thorough introduction. The work is mainly intended as a course book for students of the Icelandic language and is currently taught in Icelandic as a second language at BA level at the University of Iceland.