On March 4th, I was an opponent at Alex Speed Kjeldsen's doctoral defense at the University of Copenhagen along with Prof. Odd Einar Haugen of Bergen University and Bent Jørgensen of Copenhagen University. The dissertation, which is titled "Et mørt håndskrift og dets skrivere. Filologiske studier i kongesagahåndskriftet Morkinskinna", is a thorough investigation of an Icelandic manuscript from the second half of the 13th century, usually known as Morkinskinna (which in fact means 'the rotten manuscript', referring to its rather poor state). The dissertation is a very valuable contribution to the study of Icelandic 13th-century language and script.