To students or scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture, www.handrit.is might be one of the top 10 websites for work. It provides an online catalogue with digitised manuscripts from medieval Iceland and Norway.
It has been quiet on this blog for four months now, and that’s because I haven't have that many days at work. My family has caught almost every bug there was at our daughter’s daycare, so we have been on and off sick this cold season. The p…
Writing my blog post for October 2017 not only means that it’s beginning to feel a lot like winter. It’s time to look back at the project’s first six months, although it feels as if I had just begun.
AM 344 fol. is a large manuscript from the late fourteenth century. It contains secular and ecclesiastical law together with a couple of additions – and a gospel pericope with prayer up front.
With a project on several languages on a written page, it’s just natural for me to start thinking about how I use the languages I know – when talking, but even more when writing. And I wonder how academia actually demands us to become at le…
Looking back at September 2017, time seems to have stood still for Invisibilia. Time to adjust the schedule and find out if I will be able to catch up.
haandskrift.ku.dk / manuscript.ku.dk is an informative website about the history of the book in the medieval North. It offers an overview about key terminology, book production and types of manuscripts, and it makes a selection of manuscrip…
During the past month, smaller manuscripts have moved into the focus of my research. The most exciting one was certainly AM 428 a 12mo, a small booklet featuring a saga and formulas to aid women during childbirth.
During June and July, I was working on ms. AM 732 b 4to. It's only eighteen pages long, but full of exciting things that explain the world and human behaviour.
Researcher in the humanities read and examine – but they also write. A lot. I have found that the quality and quantity of my output depends a lot on the circumstances I write in, on the genre and not least on the strategy I commit myself to…
August was busy at the Arnamagnæan Collection because of the Summer School in Manuscript Studies. Although I was only assisting in some of the workshop and held no lectures myself, it still affected Invisibilia in several ways.
fragment.uib.no is a fun website about the history of the book in Norway. It makes reconstructed Latin manuscripts accessible online and provides background information and explanation of key terminology in an easily understandable way.
1 May 2017 was not only the first day for Invisibilia as a research project. It was also my first day back at work after 42 weeks of maternity leave, and it was my first day at the University of Copenhagen. Now at the beginning of August 20…