Examining medieval Icelandic manuscripts at the Árni Magnússon Institute in Icelandic Studies on November 29, 2016, with students in Medieval Icelandic Studies and Viking and Medieval Norse Studies: Emily Beyer, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ah Leum Kwon, Kristen Mercier, Kristen Anne Lorraine Mercier og Karin Fjall Murray-Bergquist. The manuscript is the Codex Regius of Snorri's Edda, GKS 2367 4to, from the beginning of the fourteenth century.
Professor Jonna Louis-Jensen rewarded a speaker at her eightieth birthday symposium at the University of Copenhagen on November 4, 2016, with an original copy of Rasmus Rask's 1818 grammar. Thanks!
Representatives from the working group on parallel language use in Nordic universities met with academics and administrators in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Luxembourg on October 5–7, 2016: Haraldur Bernharðsson, Olle Josephson, Gjert Kristoffersen and Frans Gregersen.
Editorial committee of the MENOTA Handbook meeting in Uppsala on August 27, 2016: Beeke Stegmann, Alex Speed Kjeldsen, Odd Einar Haugen, Marco Bianchi, Haraldur Bernharðsson og Karl-Gunnar Johansson.
Working group on language use in Nordic universities held meetings in Nuuk, Greenland, August 18–22, 2016: Haraldur Bernharðsson, Leena Huss, Camilla Falk Rønne Nissen, Arnaq Grove, Gjert Kristoffersen, Zakaris Hansen og Monica Londen.
In Sydney, Australia, to give a talk in the Manuscript Book Lecture Series hosted by the University of Sydney and Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS), University of Sydney, on February 9, 2016, and a keynote at 11th Australian Early Medieval Association Conference — Space and Time in the Early Medieval World —University of Sydney, February 11–12, 2016. Lower photo: Haraldur Bernharðsson, Margaret M. Manion (University of Melbourne), Jonathan Wooding (University of Sydney), Nicholas Sparks (University of Sydney), Rodney M. Thomson (University of Tasmania), and David Andrés-Fernández (Universidad Austral de Chile).
Working group on language use in Nordic universities held meetings in Stockholm and Uppsala on December 8–9, 2015: Jan-Ola Östman, Monica Londen, Marita Kristiansen, Zakaris Hansen, Camilla Falk Rønne Nissen, Frans Gregersen, Eva Møller Thomassen, Anne Holmen, Olle Josephson, Arnaq Grove, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Leena Huss og Gjert Kristoffersen.
Visiting my alma mater in October, 2015: Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
"Language and linguistic variation in 14th-century Iceland" — Presentation at the symposium Málfar og handrit í Skagafirði og víðar, Kakalaskála í Skagafirði, August 29, 2015 (photo Kristín Jóhannsdóttir).
