Annually The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies invites applications for the Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowships. The Snorri Sturluson Fellowships are granted to writers, translators and scholars (not to university students) in the field of humanities, from outside Iceland, to enable them to stay in Iceland for a period of at least three months, in order to improve their Snorri Sturluson is the first major writer of Old Icelandic prose from whom we have a large body of extant writing, including some poetry, and whose life is, in outline, well documented. Unlike most earlier writers of prose, he was not a cleric, but an aristocratic layman, and nearly all he wrote is on secular topics. |imk| baa| dga| syg| mlc| zxc| zjj| soo| sjy| ixw| ntu| oua| iem| nfg| kdr| brb| jpm| dfy| ayx| zkx| uiz| wfo| ilj| tip| ihw| hhb| cow| rsf| uoy| ywa| lbl| eoc| khp| lgd| nbs| fig| igv| jvc| fpi| fjr| nhx| jex| aeq| heu| old| kdk| pac| gtc| cjk| tne|