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Scripta Islandica
ISSN 0582-3234 · Isländska sällskapet · 108 articles in the index
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Writing on Skin and Bone
The article explores the material culture of the first stages of writing in premodern Iceland, arguing for the importance of repurposed writing surfaces in supporting beginner literacy. The article compares a biographical account of a self-taught writer, Jón Jónsson Therkelsen (1774–1805), with…
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Latin in situ Fragments Connected to Iceland
In this article, I provide a survey of the fragments of dismantled Latin books that are in situ in bookbindings in the major collections of Icelandic manuscripts in Denmark, Iceland and Sweden as a supplement to the existing printed catalogues of the collections, including additional information…
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Correcting Icelandic Manuscripts in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
Writing is a task prone to errors and mistakes. While modern devices allow for invisible corrections, medieval scribes often had to use methods that would remain visible to a manuscript’s future users. Previous studies on Western European manuscripts indicate that these methods can be indicative…
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Uno von Troils Bref rörande en resa til Island som kunskapsförmedling
The aim of this article is to highlight the ways in which Uno von Troil’s book Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII (1777) contributed to the transmission of knowledge about Iceland in the second half of the 18th century. The young Swede was part of a crew, under leadership of the renowned…
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Krönika över nyutkomna doktorsavhandlingar
Från och med häfte 74 (2023) vill vi erbjuda nydisputerade forskare inom tidskriftens intresseområden en möjlighet att presentera sina avhandlingar. För denna andra doktorskrönika bjöd vi in några som disputerat mellan 2023 och första halvan av 2024. Förslag till kommande årgångars krönikor lämnas…
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Kung Sverre och norrön sagaskrivning
In an article published in 1914 Halvdan Koht tried to show that King Sverrir Sigurðsson, who ruled Norway between 1177 and 1202, had played an important role in the early history of Old Norse saga-writing. Trained as a priest before he fought his way to the throne of Norway, Sverrir had…
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On places and positions of stars
This article examines readings from several medieval manuscripts in order to correct what is identified as an error in the printed editions of Örvar-Odds saga and Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. Both sagas contain a similar narrative involving individuals reputed to possess magical abilities…
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Egill, Snorri and the Story of a Hiatus
This article addresses the question of the authorship of a couple of stanzas (lausavísur 28 and 29) attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in the eponymous saga (ÍF 2: 163–165). The stanzas contain two invectives addressed at Eiríkr blóðøx and Queen Gunnhildr, share several verbal echoes and seem to…
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Skriða og skryðja og nogle andre jordskredsverber i færøsk
This article discusses the Faroese verb skryðja ‘to move or roll down (as in a mountain or landslide)’, a word of interest both orthographically and semantically. In Færøsk Anthologi (Hammershaimb 1891), the form is spelled skryðja, whereas in Lexicon Færoense (Grundtvig & Bloch 1877–1888) it…
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Det isländska Nya testamentet 1540 och dess plats i den isländska språkhistorien
The article discusses the first translation of the New Testament into Icelandic in 1540, its translator, the Norwegian-Icelandic bishops son Oddur Gottskálksson, and the text’s place in the history of the Icelandic language. The NT 1540 is considered a landmark document in the history of Icelandic…
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Islänningen som mötte Hitler och DDR-vännen
The Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975), who wrote in Danish, and the Swedish pedagogue, literary scholar and politician Stellan Arvidson (1902–1997) exchanged letters for 50 years (their ca 350 letters are kept at the National Library of Iceland). Their political opinions diverged early…