Arnamagnæanske Institut, University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Njalsgade 136
DK-2300 KS

Phone +45-35 32 84 67
Fax +45-35 32 84 68

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Description

The Arnamagnæan Institute (Det Arnamagnæanske Institut) is a teaching and research institute within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen whose function is to further the study of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan collection, in keeping with the terms of the Arnamagnæan Foundation, established in 1760. The manuscript collection, apart from those items that have been transferred to Iceland, is housed at the Institute, and there is also a reading room and a reference library containing some 17,000 volumes, principally on subjects relating to the languages and cultures of medieval and early-modern Scandinavia. The academic staff of the Institute are responsible for research and instruction in Old West Norse, Modern Icelandic and Faroese language and literature, and, to a lesser extent, Old Danish and Old Swedish. The Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection (in Danish Den Arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling, Handritasafn Árna Magnåssonar in Icelandic) derives its name from the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnåsson (1663-1730)