The Research Centre of St John’s College Oxford has awarded pump-priming funding for the initial stages of an international research project, ‘Interpreting Eddic Poetry’, to Dr Carolyne Larrington (Oxford) and Dr Judy Quinn (Principal Investigators). The project will support an interdisciplinary research network which will convene for its first Workshop ‘Interpreting Eddic Poetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ […]

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 […]