Icelandic Life
Why the Icelandic language remains a living link to the island’s early days
Conservative grammar, a rich literary legacy and active preservation efforts have helped Icelandic resist the changes seen in other European languages.
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Icelandic Life
Codex Scardensis travels centuries from Helgafell to London and home again
Codex Scardensis, one of Iceland's great medieval manuscripts, holds stories of the apostles and a layered ownership history stretching across centuries and borders.
Icelandic Life
A rare medieval Icelandic drawing book bridges centuries of artistic tradition
Teiknibók stands alone as the only surviving manuscript of its type from Scandinavia, offering rare insight into the creative practices of Icelandic artists over 150 years.
Icelandic Life
Skálholt annals offer glimpses of medieval Icelandic life through centuries
With entries spanning from the early centuries to the fourteenth century, the Skálholt annals and their fragment record the passage of time, collaboration, and change in Iceland’s written memory.
Icelandic Life
A unique Icelandic manuscript blends poetry, art and Norse myth
AM 738 4to, known for its elongated shape and colourful art, gathers Norse mythology, Christian poetry and 17th-century Icelandic verse in a single hand-made volume.
Icelandic Life
How the sagas of Icelanders preserved a medieval world of family and feuds
Written mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries, the sagas of Icelanders recount the fierce disputes, kinship ties and daily life of the island's early settlers.
Icelandic Life
Iceland’s language guardians: how linguistic purism shapes modern Icelandic
Icelanders continue striving to keep their language free of foreign borrowings, drawing on a centuries-old tradition of inventing new words using native roots.
