On August 28, 2015, we welcomed 37 new graduate students in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland. We are fortunate to get good students from all over the world and this new group of 37 comes from Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, UK, and US.
The Icelandic Language Council 2011–2015 at the end of its term (August 27, 2015). Rear: Guðrún Rögnvaldardóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Anna Sigríður Þráinsdóttir, Þórhildur S. Sigurðardóttir, Melkorka Tekla Ólafsdóttir, Sigurður Pálsson, Hilmar Hilmarsson, Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson (secretary). Front: Stanislaw Jan Bartoszek, Dóra Jakobsdóttir, Guðrún Kvaran (chair), Haraldur Bernharðsson (vice chair), and Sigríður D. Þorvaldsdóttir.
After a MENOTA meeting in Reykjavík on August 21, 2015: Christian-Emil Ore, Alex Speed Kjeldsen, Ida Västerdal, Odd Einar Haugen, Haraldur Bernharðsson, and Espen Karlsen.
Viking and Medieval Norse Studies & Medieval Icelandic Studies — current students, alumni and teachers at the 16th International Saga Conference in Zürich on August 14, 2015.
21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) in Provo, Utah, with an excursion to Arches National Park on May 11, 2015.
In good company at the conference Local identities – Global Literacy Practices. Vernacular Writing in a Textually Mediated Social World, Umeå University, February 16–17, 2015.
My wonderful students in MIS105F Old Icelandic 1 (led by Lars Benthien) secretly held a bingo in the last class of the semester on November 26, 2014. We all had lots of fun!
Last class in MIS801F Old Icelandic 2 in the spring of 2014. From left: Oliver Organista, Will Biel, Qays Stetkevych, Eduardo Ramos, David Feldman, Lionel Perabo, Malo Adeux, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Aaron Russell, Jacob Malone, Ariel Gonzalez Atances, Anna Kryukova, Paloma Desoille, Julian Molin, Romina Wulf, Anna Solovyeva, James McMullen, Johanna Nowotnick, Hannah Hethmon, Josh Rood, Karyn Dagneau, Lily Geraty, Alissa Kanaan, Sarah Bienko Eriksen, Attila Bulenda.
Viking and Medieval Norse Studies steering group meeting at the University of Oslo on November 18, 2014: Karl-Gunnar Johansen (University of Oslo), Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University), Torfi H. Tulinius (University of Iceland), Frode Torp Christiansen (University of Oslo), Terje Spurkland (University of Oslo), Britt-Marie Forsudd (University of Oslo), Anne Mette Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Gísli Sigurðsson (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies), and Haraldur Bernharðsson (University of Iceland).
Orientation meeting August 30, 2014. — 36 incoming graduate students in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland. This promises to be a great year!
