The saga author and his book
Find of the month: June 2026 by Lukas Rösli With regard to pre-modern Old Norse-Icelandic literary production, little has come down to us concerning when and […]
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01.06.2026
04.05.2026
Musa scaldica: translating Icelandic poetry into Latin in the Early Modern
Find of the month: May 2026by Lucia Santercole Let’s assume you have come across a collection of Indonesian poems and decided to read it. Except: […]
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01.04.2026
The Ideologist and His Helpers: Cultivating the ‘Artistic Scholar’ Through the Archive
Find of the month: April 2026 by Tim Lüthi Have you ever wondered why quite a few of our Finds of the Month begin with […]
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01.03.2026
The Feral Icelander: Victor Hugo’s Depiction of the North in Han d’Islande
Find of the month: March 2026 by Ela Sefcikova In 1823, at the age of twenty-one, Victor Hugo published his first novel, Han d’Islande (Hans of […]
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02.02.2026
The ultima thule of dress reform
Find of the month: February 2026 by Eline Elmiger For readers with a background in Scandinavian studies, Ultima Thule evokes the northern edge of the […]
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19.12.2025
“Eine Verfassung nach isländischem Muster”: Greenland, the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord and the second German Northpole expedition 1870–1871
Find of the month: December 2025 by Amrei Stanzel You have heard of isländischer Freistaat, Þjóðveldi or the Icelandic commonwealth period – but what about a grönländischer Freistaat? As […]
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