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Snorri Sturluson Fellows 2025

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.

Grey, concrete car park. A man pushes a stack of yellow and black boxes from the back of a black van. Two stacks of boxes are already on the floor and two policemen watch the proceedings.

All Manuscripts Transferred to Edda

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.

Word of the Year 2024

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 published

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.

Icelandic teaching abroad

The Institute supervises the teaching of Icelandic abroad, and provides services to lecturers in Icelandic at foreign universities on behalf of the Icelandic government.

Map for Icelandic teaching abroad

The Institute supervises the teaching of Icelandic abroad, and provides services to lecturers in Icelandic at foreign universities on behalf of the Icelandic government. This map shows 91 universities on four continents offering Icelandic language teaching.

Book cover shows a round, green knot-pattern of lines, dragon heads and claws. The main title reads: The Prosimetrium of the Íslendingasögur.

A New Book on The Relationship Between Poetry and Prose in the Íslendingasögur

The book "The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects" has just been published.

Overview inside exhibition space. On top of white tables are glass cases. Within them are green boxes that frame old manuscripts. The far wall is filled from floor to ceiling with drawn images of landscapes, foliage and a raven in flight.

First Weekend of Exhibition Exceeds All Expectations

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.

New Electronic Edition of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda

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.

Manuscripts rest on a table, on black pillows. A woman in a pink sweater stands at the largest manuscript, another woman in a blazer stands next to her and smiles at her. A few people look on from the background, standing in front of bookshelves..

Manuscripts Moved to Edda

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.