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Dating Historical Paper

Currently, researchers are using FTIR spectroscopy (Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy) to determine the age of seventeenth-century paper.

This research is part of The Paper Cycle project, which seeks to expand scholarly knowledge of the paper used in Iceland in earlier times. The age determination is conducted in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Austria.

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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.
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.
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.