Dr Rory Naismith has been awarded the 2012 Jan H. Nordbø scholarship and medal by the Norwegian Numismatic Society. This prestigious award exists to bring foreign scholars of numismatics to give a lecture in Norway. On 30 October, Dr Naismith lectured to the Norwegian Numismatic Society in Oslo on the subject of ‘Gold Coinage and […]
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Flateyjarbók to be translated into Norwegian
Dr Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (Lecturer in Scandinavian history) is helping to oversee the translation of the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók into Norwegian. The project is led by Professor Torgrim Titlestad (University of Stavanger), who sees the manuscript’s sagas and stories about the kings of Norway as an underappreciated source of information about Norway from the Viking […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jeff Love
Congratulations to Jeff Love who has been awarded a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen from October 2012 to collaborate on the project ‘The Icelandic Fornaldarsagas’ led by Matthew Driscoll.
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