The much anticipated 2012 EC Quiggin Lecture volume 14 by Odd Einar Haugen ‘So that the writing may be less and quicker, and the parchment last longer’: The orthographic reform of the Old Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise is now available for purchase. Please click here for details on this and other ASNC publications

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 […]

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 […]